Although the veld is too arid to bloom like that of the West Coast of Namaqualand, even when there is some spring rain, what does appear is highly unusual and often hauntingly beautiful. Vaalputs, a nuclear waste repository, has been sited between Bushmanland and Namaqualand, and acts as a de facto nature reserve. (South Africa)
Category Archives: fourteen forms of melancholy
“Climate change can feel like a looming apocalypse, but from a Christian perspective, doom also includes possibility.”
“Every something is an echo of nothing.”
― John Cage
“Again, it’s just the music. Feeling like transposed time is as tangible as a dream you’ve mixed up with an actual memory” (C Monster on American Zen, 2016).
Andrew Feenberg writes that “human beings can only act on a system to which they themselves belong. This is the practical consequence of being an embodied being. Every one of our interventions returns to us in some form as a feedback from our objects.”
the ability to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing,”
“meeting someone is God’s doing but parting is what humans do themselves”
