Eric
@schaetzle.bsky.social
πρόξενος, ritual, ornament, poetry, music, & “minute particulars” (Blake)
Reposted by Eric
I asked the historian,
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I asked the historian,
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
~Emma Lazarus~
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
~Emma Lazarus~
August 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
~Emma Lazarus~
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
~Emma Lazarus~
The Mouse is a creature
Of hospitable disposition…
I prophecy that hospitality and temperance will revive.
~ Christopher Smart ~
Of hospitable disposition…
I prophecy that hospitality and temperance will revive.
~ Christopher Smart ~
August 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The Mouse is a creature
Of hospitable disposition…
I prophecy that hospitality and temperance will revive.
~ Christopher Smart ~
Of hospitable disposition…
I prophecy that hospitality and temperance will revive.
~ Christopher Smart ~
Yet if His Majesty, our sovereign lord,
Should of his own accord
Friendly himself invite,
And say 'I'll be your guest to-morrow night,'
How should we stir ourselves?
We entertain Him always like a stranger,
And, as at first, still lodge Him in the manger.
~ Preparations by Anonymous ~
Should of his own accord
Friendly himself invite,
And say 'I'll be your guest to-morrow night,'
How should we stir ourselves?
We entertain Him always like a stranger,
And, as at first, still lodge Him in the manger.
~ Preparations by Anonymous ~
July 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Yet if His Majesty, our sovereign lord,
Should of his own accord
Friendly himself invite,
And say 'I'll be your guest to-morrow night,'
How should we stir ourselves?
We entertain Him always like a stranger,
And, as at first, still lodge Him in the manger.
~ Preparations by Anonymous ~
Should of his own accord
Friendly himself invite,
And say 'I'll be your guest to-morrow night,'
How should we stir ourselves?
We entertain Him always like a stranger,
And, as at first, still lodge Him in the manger.
~ Preparations by Anonymous ~
“And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid,
But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.”
- Snake by D.H. Lawrence
But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.”
- Snake by D.H. Lawrence
June 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid,
But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.”
- Snake by D.H. Lawrence
But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.”
- Snake by D.H. Lawrence
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver
June 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver
“They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.”
- Henry Vaughan
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.”
- Henry Vaughan
May 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.”
- Henry Vaughan
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.”
- Henry Vaughan
Hers the patience
Of one who made no claims, but simply loved Because that was her nature, and loving so Asked no more than to be repaid in kind. If she was not a saint, I do not know
What saints are…
“My Mother’s Sister” by C. Day Lewis
Of one who made no claims, but simply loved Because that was her nature, and loving so Asked no more than to be repaid in kind. If she was not a saint, I do not know
What saints are…
“My Mother’s Sister” by C. Day Lewis
May 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Hers the patience
Of one who made no claims, but simply loved Because that was her nature, and loving so Asked no more than to be repaid in kind. If she was not a saint, I do not know
What saints are…
“My Mother’s Sister” by C. Day Lewis
Of one who made no claims, but simply loved Because that was her nature, and loving so Asked no more than to be repaid in kind. If she was not a saint, I do not know
What saints are…
“My Mother’s Sister” by C. Day Lewis
“I have been young, & now am not too old;
& I have seen the righteous forsaken…
Say what you will, our God sees how they run.
These disillusions are his curious proving
That he loves humanity & will go on loving;
Over them are faith, life, virtue in the sun.”
Report on Experience by Edmund Blunden
& I have seen the righteous forsaken…
Say what you will, our God sees how they run.
These disillusions are his curious proving
That he loves humanity & will go on loving;
Over them are faith, life, virtue in the sun.”
Report on Experience by Edmund Blunden
May 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I have been young, & now am not too old;
& I have seen the righteous forsaken…
Say what you will, our God sees how they run.
These disillusions are his curious proving
That he loves humanity & will go on loving;
Over them are faith, life, virtue in the sun.”
Report on Experience by Edmund Blunden
& I have seen the righteous forsaken…
Say what you will, our God sees how they run.
These disillusions are his curious proving
That he loves humanity & will go on loving;
Over them are faith, life, virtue in the sun.”
Report on Experience by Edmund Blunden
And to me, though Time's unflinching rigour,
In mindless rote, has ruled from sight
The substance now, one phantom figure
Remains on the slope, as when that night
Saw us alight.
Thomas Hrdy, At Castle Boterel
(March 1913)
In mindless rote, has ruled from sight
The substance now, one phantom figure
Remains on the slope, as when that night
Saw us alight.
Thomas Hrdy, At Castle Boterel
(March 1913)
April 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
And to me, though Time's unflinching rigour,
In mindless rote, has ruled from sight
The substance now, one phantom figure
Remains on the slope, as when that night
Saw us alight.
Thomas Hrdy, At Castle Boterel
(March 1913)
In mindless rote, has ruled from sight
The substance now, one phantom figure
Remains on the slope, as when that night
Saw us alight.
Thomas Hrdy, At Castle Boterel
(March 1913)
"The stars," he said, "throw well. One can help them."
"I do not collect," I said uncomfortably, the wind beating at my garments. "Neither the living nor the dead. I gave it up a long time ago. Death is the only successful collector."
"I do not collect," I said uncomfortably, the wind beating at my garments. "Neither the living nor the dead. I gave it up a long time ago. Death is the only successful collector."
March 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"The stars," he said, "throw well. One can help them."
"I do not collect," I said uncomfortably, the wind beating at my garments. "Neither the living nor the dead. I gave it up a long time ago. Death is the only successful collector."
"I do not collect," I said uncomfortably, the wind beating at my garments. "Neither the living nor the dead. I gave it up a long time ago. Death is the only successful collector."
Yesterday I saw the trees by the river's edge Wrecked and broken beyond belief Only two or three trunks left standing Scarred by blades of a thousand axes Frost strips the yellowing leaves River waves pluck at withered roots This is the way the living must fare Why curse at Heaven & Earth?
Han Shan
Han Shan
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Yesterday I saw the trees by the river's edge Wrecked and broken beyond belief Only two or three trunks left standing Scarred by blades of a thousand axes Frost strips the yellowing leaves River waves pluck at withered roots This is the way the living must fare Why curse at Heaven & Earth?
Han Shan
Han Shan
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss
March 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss
Nobody is talking about
the elephant in the room
But who is talking about...
"If you're an elephant, you're in the womb
for like two years or something,
and you come out and you can walk immediately."
- Zak Stein
youtu.be/-YrQAJ8M3DY?...
the elephant in the room
But who is talking about...
"If you're an elephant, you're in the womb
for like two years or something,
and you come out and you can walk immediately."
- Zak Stein
youtu.be/-YrQAJ8M3DY?...
March 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Nobody is talking about
the elephant in the room
But who is talking about...
"If you're an elephant, you're in the womb
for like two years or something,
and you come out and you can walk immediately."
- Zak Stein
youtu.be/-YrQAJ8M3DY?...
the elephant in the room
But who is talking about...
"If you're an elephant, you're in the womb
for like two years or something,
and you come out and you can walk immediately."
- Zak Stein
youtu.be/-YrQAJ8M3DY?...
What is to be said of someone who flings himself into the Ocean and has no aspiration but to drown himself in it? This is precisely the significance of the so-called "fusion" with a "cosmic consciousness." - René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity (1945)
February 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
What is to be said of someone who flings himself into the Ocean and has no aspiration but to drown himself in it? This is precisely the significance of the so-called "fusion" with a "cosmic consciousness." - René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity (1945)
Once there was blue sky with white clouds high above;
Once they were part of an everlasting love.
We were the lovers who strolled through greenfields.
- The Brothers Four
Once they were part of an everlasting love.
We were the lovers who strolled through greenfields.
- The Brothers Four
February 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Once there was blue sky with white clouds high above;
Once they were part of an everlasting love.
We were the lovers who strolled through greenfields.
- The Brothers Four
Once they were part of an everlasting love.
We were the lovers who strolled through greenfields.
- The Brothers Four
When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
- Kurt Vonnegut
February 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Moonlight reflecting off crystals of ice
From the Sun to the Moon to the snow to me
No brighter light has there ever been.
From the Sun to the Moon to the snow to me
No brighter light has there ever been.
February 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Moonlight reflecting off crystals of ice
From the Sun to the Moon to the snow to me
No brighter light has there ever been.
From the Sun to the Moon to the snow to me
No brighter light has there ever been.
I try to "imaginatively inhabit" the words I read, and see behind them "translucently" as it were. People bring a uniquely embodied sense to what they write, that’s the terroir of the text. It's not about efficiency, but rather the depth and richness of experience.
February 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I try to "imaginatively inhabit" the words I read, and see behind them "translucently" as it were. People bring a uniquely embodied sense to what they write, that’s the terroir of the text. It's not about efficiency, but rather the depth and richness of experience.
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
~ Remember by Christina Rossetti ~
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
~ Remember by Christina Rossetti ~
February 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
~ Remember by Christina Rossetti ~
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
~ Remember by Christina Rossetti ~
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars:
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer …
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer …
February 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars:
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer …
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer …
David Walter Truman: “A photo of me next to a huge Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) in the Bunya Mountains of southeast Queensland.”
February 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
David Walter Truman: “A photo of me next to a huge Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) in the Bunya Mountains of southeast Queensland.”
Elon Musk (2015): Burning Fossil Fuels Is the ‘Dumbest Experiment in History, By Far.’
Elon Musk (2025): Exploring the option of trying to close the Department of Education.
I'm having trouble deciding which experiment is worse.
Elon Musk (2025): Exploring the option of trying to close the Department of Education.
I'm having trouble deciding which experiment is worse.
February 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Elon Musk (2015): Burning Fossil Fuels Is the ‘Dumbest Experiment in History, By Far.’
Elon Musk (2025): Exploring the option of trying to close the Department of Education.
I'm having trouble deciding which experiment is worse.
Elon Musk (2025): Exploring the option of trying to close the Department of Education.
I'm having trouble deciding which experiment is worse.
Reposted by Eric
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel
― Elie Wiesel
January 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel
― Elie Wiesel
Shade said to Shadow, "At one moment you move, at another you are at rest. Why this instability of purpose?"
"Perhaps I depend," replied Shadow, "upon something which causes me to do as I do; and perhaps that something depends in turn upon something else which causes it to do as it does.”
Zhuangzi
"Perhaps I depend," replied Shadow, "upon something which causes me to do as I do; and perhaps that something depends in turn upon something else which causes it to do as it does.”
Zhuangzi
The Chuang Tzu Translated by Yutang Lin, Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
terebess.hu
January 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Shade said to Shadow, "At one moment you move, at another you are at rest. Why this instability of purpose?"
"Perhaps I depend," replied Shadow, "upon something which causes me to do as I do; and perhaps that something depends in turn upon something else which causes it to do as it does.”
Zhuangzi
"Perhaps I depend," replied Shadow, "upon something which causes me to do as I do; and perhaps that something depends in turn upon something else which causes it to do as it does.”
Zhuangzi