The body doesn’t only keep the score of trauma, as Bessel van der Kolk’s
influential work rightly asserts. Through the skin, bodies soak in sermons about
the passions of the flesh.
…there are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all
the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the
hour may call for
1. Vuvuzela, n. A brightly-coloured plastic trumpet, commonly blown by fans at
soccer matches, that produces an extremely loud, monotonous sound
2. Tergiversate, v. 1. To make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate.
2.
When I was very young, I saw the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact. In the
movie, a family had a dolphin pool in their living room! The dolphin swims over
for
It is a surprising experience to see the early avenues Piet Mondrian (1872 –
1944) explored in his art, something I recently discovered while wandering
through “The Figurative Mondrian
[https://www.marmottan.fr/en/