tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84499821462976032702024-02-21T09:53:36.200+01:00The Celestial PoetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449982146297603270.post-83669261565038142882015-04-01T22:30:00.000+02:002015-04-02T11:50:49.941+02:00Best Keep Secrets of Austria - Spring Comes in Phases<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Growing up in Australia, the seasons we learnt about didn't quite apply as explained in the textbooks with the information borrowed from the English school system. Unless you were in Tasmania and the cooler areas of the country, the four seasons were not obvious. We kept the four seasons, in reverse from the Northern Hemisphere by date, despite the fact that the weather failed to shape up to the labels. Depending where you were in the Antipodes, there could be more than four seasons in a year and the variations in temperature could be subtle or extreme.</div>
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In Austria, the seasons are very much as I learnt, even though they don’t happen all at once, or by date, there are obviously four of them. In the “wild” and uncultivated areas, spring occurs slowly and in phases. There can also be a variance throughout the country, when it commences. It starts in the valleys and the sheltered places and slowly moves upwards, with the thaw, into the mountains. The cultivated gardens found in country and urban areas are different story of spring.<br />
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Working in Vienna, away from the Alps, I have seen the signs of spring, in the cultivated gardens and window boxes of the city, since early to mid February. Coming home to the Alps, there is much the same going on in gardens, in window boxes and at the cemeteries. Spring is just happening a little later down here. There is industrious activity by the avid gardeners, who are purchasing, preparing and planting for spring and coming summer. The trees are budding, while the bulb flowers are exploding into colour.</div>
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The loveliest of the spring activity is the uninterrupted work of Nature herself. Yesterday, I witnessed this work while walking along a path, leading by the forest, into the forest itself and across the fields. The spring wildflowers are making their yearly début. The low growing wildflowers, protected by their taller cousins, the trees, dot the forest floor like flowers on an old fashion carpet or nestle in sheltered places, shyly peeking at curious wanderers. Spring has sprung in the Alpine valleys and even in the cooler higher reaches, some intrepid flowers have braved the cold and made their appearance on Mother Earth’s stage. Nature at her best and the camera fails to do justice in witnessing the stars of spring’s symphony in the “flesh”, as they rise to the glory of spring. </div>
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About a month ago, I decided it was time to visit the <a href="http://www.schmetterlinghaus.at/en/the-butterfly-house/" target="_blank">Schmetterlinghaus</a> (the Imperial Butterfly House), located in the Burggarten, Vienna. The last time I went was a number of years ago. The Schmetterlinghaus is located a part of a gloriously large greenhouse structure called the <a href="http://wikimapia.org/11836937/Palmenhaus-Burggarten" target="_blank">Palmenhaus</a>. This visit was initially to take some photographs.<br />
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Once I arrived, the visit, not unlike a caterpillar, metamorphosed into something quite different. It became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly" target="_blank">butterfly</a> hour of profound contemplation on the beauty of truth in love. Growing up with my Father, I learnt the value of being truthful, as it was so important to his sense of ethics, how he behaved as a parent and a friend.<br />
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I realised, what I subconsciously always knew, but like most children failed to recognise, that my Father was one of those rare individuals that handled his family, friends and the wider world without deceit. He dealt with life in complete openness, truth and free from illusionary masks. I now understand this is why we successfully survived as a family unit of three. Father taught my sister and me, the value of truth through the profound love of his family. He showed us that love does not deceive, but deals only in truth when we truly care.<br />
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The value of truth is measured in part on how we are treat the ones we profess to love. Launching into deceit devalues the truth of love. When we start to deceive, truth goes out the door along with any real sense of love. I see the value of truth in the successful relationships I witness each day.<br />
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The lessons on truth, that we learn from the examples of our elders, take us into the world, teaching us how we should handle of neighbours and the wider community. The act of being truthful results in a ripple effect on how we behave outside our spheres of influence and into the wider world. Truth frees us from false illusions that are fed to us each day by the media and the cult of personalities.<br />
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We need to weigh up that being truthful starts, not only at home with the family we love, but extends when we step outside of our immediate circles, into the big wide world. When we love the truth, we can better serve the future and world. The world would, perhaps, be a better place if everyone dealt truthfully in all their actions.<br />
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So this butterfly hour metamorphosed into one of contemplation on the beauty of truth in love. Like the butterflies my photos in the slideshow, truth is such a fragile thing that needs to be cultivated and treasured. Truth is not only integral to love, but also to happiness. If my Father was still with us, I would say, “Thank you Daddy, another of your lessons very well learnt.”<br />
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It is amazing that the journey I am currently undergoing, is freeing insights, externalising issues, and becoming open enough to free all the truths that have affected my life, even more so than now than in the past. The seeking of answers through lessons learnt is all great part of this journey. Sometimes those answers, like truth, have always been there.<br />
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This is my contemplated lesson on truth. How you handle your truth is how you treat the ones you say you love. How find your behave with the truth, is up to how you contemplate the lessons you, yourself have learnt. It is also in the lessons, as well as the examples, you pass on. It is up to you.<br />
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Maybe I should have titled this post differently. Then again it was contemplation, when it started. On what I contemplated only became apparent, when I checked the photographs, during that walk among the butterflies. How fragile is the truth, not unlike how fragile is the butterfly, when we surrender it to deception.<br />
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The Butterfly Hours ~ #01 Contemplation is the first of many hours I intend to spend with the butterflies. I happily returning next day and invested in a yearly pass. That visit is another essay.</div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.</i></span><i style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">"</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Claude Debussy </i></span></div>
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I haven't been to the circus since I was a kid. I am not sure whether my Dad took me that last time. I know I was with him the first time I saw a circus. Dad always arranged tickets through one of the clubs he where he was a member. That last time he may have organised a group of tickets for friends with kids. My baby sister and I may have gone with them Most of the Dads would go the club and wait it out until the show was finished. Each year he would arrange for us to go to these summer events, while the clubs still offered them.<br />
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This was when we lived in Australia. In those days, it was a thrill for kids to go to the circus, as it was a rarity in the cities and the country. A once a year chance, for something “exotic” besides the shows, regattas and rodeos, to found annually in the country towns and the big city. The circuses generally had exotic animals that shouldn’t have been performing in captivity, kept in always sad and sometimes bad conditions. Reflecting on it now, I can only imagine the stress and sadness these animals must have endured, to delight and make us human kids, as well as the human adults, smile, laugh or gawk in awe, at their performances.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Well the circus is coming to town, as in Vienna, Austria, (the country without Kangaroos). The circus in question is the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Roncalli)" target="_blank">Circus Roncalli</a>. I have done a little research this circus since seeing the notices and it doesn't have exotic animal acts. They keep to domestic animals. Even so, I wonder how these animals are treated - the dogs, horses and ponies? After at least 4 decades and at 50 (cough splutter), I am seriously considering going to the circus to find out how the animals fare today. All I hope is that the care of the animals doesn't disappoint me if I do go.<br />
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A visit to the circus may be a good idea, considering recently I mentioned to my therapist that I had a yen to run off to join the circus one morning on the way to work. A sort of regressive thought back to the one that every small child has after they first visit to a circus, with all those delights they offer to the visitor. Maybe it is a sign that the circus is coming to town. All those cosmic cylinders clicking into place, telling me I should go to the circus.<br />
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My life, in the last months, has seemed to be gathering metaphors for change and awareness at a galloping pace. I see then in almost everything and just maybe this is another refreshing metaphor, pushing me to delight in the joys of old childhood experiences. Perhaps by reliving those seemingly joyful experiences without the unwarranted stresses thrown at me from a very early age, and all the decades that followed, could be a message that something magic may happen. They may even have a carousel. I share a love of carousels, with my sister, once having even penned a <a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/carousel.html" target="_blank">poem </a>about them. <br />
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Maybe this could also be something of a spiritual quest. The Universe sometimes seems to support the regeneration of your personal energy, which some people refer to as the soul, in the most unusual way. Considering that life can also be a circus at times, perhaps I need to see the real thing to get, my pixie perspective back in focus.<br />
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So the question is - do I or do I not go to the circus? Que Sera Sera!<br />
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Send in the clowns :) and what better way to finish off than have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_Dench" target="_blank">Dame Judi Dench</a>, sing the song by the same name:</div>
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"The Gloves are off!", at least in Gersthof, the area of Vienna where I live. Wandering from my apartment to the local transport junction, has taken an intriguing turn in the last few months. Major trackwork, on the tramlines, has been going on and will continue until the end of September. I touched on the work in a previous essay, titled "<a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2014/05/nuts-in-may.html" target="_blank">Nuts in May</a>".<br />
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The photographic opportunities afforded by this work to shoot some intriguing and offbeat photo studies has been overwhelming. I could be writing on a variety of topics and sharing the better photos for months on this trackwork. The photos above, of work gloves caught my attention on different days and in different places.<br />
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Worn-out and abandoned, the pair in the first photo, shot on a rainy day, were left laying on a section of bare tracks undergoing work. For more than a week, I passed this pair, unmoving and undisturbed, exactly how they were first shot. During this time, I contemplated a number of scenarios for their abandonment - the sad, the bad and the ugly. They finally disappeared when the area was cleaned, as the final work, for that section, went ahead and the plinths, between the sections of track, were put back into place.<br />
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The second shot of that one single left-handed work glove, laying on the section of footpath, given over to a shabby garden, was the one that set me think of that time given idiom "The Gloves are off!" I found it amusing that Gersthof seemed to have become a stage for worn-out and abandoned work gloves. This one glove, I cannot attribute directly to the trackwork, being found between the track work and a building, which at the same time,was undergoing renovation and covered by an outside layer of scaffolding. I also wondered where its partner was, and like the first pair it lay, where it was left, for over a week.<br />
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The more I thought about these photos, the more I thought about gloves. All types of gloves, their uses and the metaphoric messages they can sometimes convey to us. In the case of the gloves featured here, I began seeing them as a metaphor for abandonment and being worn out. It lead me to think on the how my life had been playing out, particularly the last months.<br />
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Learning to live for me, has seen me recently abandon the pseudo "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Queensberry_Rules" target="_blank">Marquis of Queensberry Rules</a>" that I have let rule my life since childhood, as a result of adverse conditioning and not having the luxury of learning boundaries. With the help of my therapist, (also touched in a <a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2014/06/days-of-wine-rosesand-therapy.html" target="_blank">previous post</a>), I have realised that being the subject repeated narcissistic abuse, I finally understood that I needed to build those boundaries as well as cease feeling responsible for everyone else's actions as well as pandering to their whims and their behaviour.<br />
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I am finally learning to tell life as it is and learn to be me. I am ceasing to internalise issues and beginning to externalising them. By doing so, I feel I am finally growing into myself, at the same time reversing the childhood conditioning of one narcissistic parent. Coupled with that repairing the continuing damage of falling victim to other narcissistic individuals, which has been a consequence of that early conditioning.<br />
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The gloves above, not only quirky subjects to photograph, have ended up as a profound metaphor for abandoning old patterns of thinking and behaviour. These are worn-out, needing to be replaced by a better way of dealing with life and thoughts free of outside influence - glove free. The type of life I know my Dad always hoped I would have and the free thinking that comes with it. Amazing that photographing some worn-out abandoned gloves could end up having them turn into a metaphor for my current life journey.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glove" target="_blank">Gloves</a> will be featuring quite a lot in some of my future essays. Even though the “Marquis of Queensberry Rules” of life have been given the toss and the gloves are now off, there are always 12 rounds in completing a sparring match. I have at least another 11 rounds to go. There are more types of gloves out there, each having their own type of story and metaphoric message of life! </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was wandering through Vienna during the middle of July, while heading towards the Burggarten on a photographic mission (more on that in a number of future blog essays). I decided to go along a side street of the <a href="http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/Startseite-Content.en.php" target="_blank">State Opera House</a>, when my eyes caught sight of something totally unexpected. Sitting on top of the most famous <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/austria/vienna/restaurants/street-food-hawkers/bitzinger-wurstelstand-albertinaplatz" target="_blank">Bitzinger Würstelstand</a>, located below the <a href="http://www.albertina.at/en" target="_blank">Albertina Museum</a> and across from the Opera house was a supersized green bunny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Austrians like to enjoy themselves with some rather strong or numerous enlightening liquids and some have been known to see some odd things. Being stone cold sober and spying this ginormous green bunny was a surprise, and delight, to me. I couldn’t help taking a few shots of the bunny sitting in all his elegance on top of this famous Würstelstand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wasn’t sure if I would be bothered writing about the Super Bunny. That all changes when I got close up and friendly with Supersized Pink Bunny. I found him sitting on top of a slab type structure behind the Operhouse, on the Ring side. The pink bunny was more of a surprise than the green one. It truly gave you an idea of just how big the bunnies are. After that second fateful “meeting” I was on another mission. Being female means being multi-skilled, so I can handle those extra missions as they crop up. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a little research, I tracked down the actual original use for these humungous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporid" target="_blank">Leporidae</a>. I remembered an exhibit, I missed out on seeing which featured the famous the art work of a number of renaissance artists, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer" target="_blank">Albrecht Dürer</a>. The featured artwork used on all the billboards and poster stands throughout Vienna was Dürer’s famous watercolour of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hare" target="_blank">“Young Hare”</a> which is part of the Albertina Collection, along with a number of his other famous works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With a little more research, I discovered these 3D versions of Dürer’s famous bunny are the work of the German sculptor and artist <a href="http://www.ottmarhoerl.de/sites/english/index.php" target="_blank">Ottmar Hörl</a>. It appears Hörl, makes a speciality of creating controversial plastic and giant sculptured figures, turning 2D artworks like the bunny into 3D. The bunny was project he undertook in 2003, called “Das große Hasenstück” (the Giant Hare Piece”). The year 2003 saw the 500th anniversary of Dürer's painting, that lovely watercolour masterpiece, known in German as “Ein junger Feldhase", and in English as the "Young Hare”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though the colour pink and green may seem over the top to celebrate a great work of art, even these plastic giant bunnies have a certain charisma, serving to send your mind on a journey to reflect on a great piece of work, by an artistic genius, who began his career over 500 years ago. I am hoping the giant bunnies stay, so if you make it to Austria, head for the Albertina to check out the work of Dürer. Take time to pause on the way, reflecting on the humongous green and pink bunnies which are a tribute to Dürer by Ottmar Hörl, a modern artist.</span></div>
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The narcissistic fox pair like to cunningly plan to slyly cheat,<br />
Traversing to opportunistic events, to secretly and illicitly meet,<br />
The French fox blissfully polishes and grooms plans for the days,<br />
When the Canadian vixen will joyfully abandon her faithful family.<br />
They seek each to bask and reflect in their mutual mirrored pond,<br />
Their plans made with detailed care do really lack class, finesse or flare.<br />
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Off to Chicago where bloomers collectively did at a party play,<br />
They cheated first mid-year for closer to a week than a short day<br />
The narcissistic vixen’s family forgotten dismissively and without a care.<br />
Then while autumn was on the rise again they met to prance as together,<br />
Those sly narcissistic foxes along those sandy shores of Vancouver Bay<br />
With seagulls in flight bearing witness to their deceitfully cunning ways.<br />
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Then early in the year bloggers once more collectively did met,<br />
In New York providing the foxes once more the opportunity to cheat,<br />
And to plan next to meet in April when the vixen painted head to toe,<br />
Flitted off to Paris again for a slyly planned deceitful adulteress tryst<br />
I have been told, where for all to see that boldly reflected in glass,<br />
Are she and he, that sly cunningly audacious narcissistic fox pair.<br />
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Where next will opportunity lead for their meetings of narcissistic lust,<br />
And to abandon family at home with ever that misguided sense of trust,<br />
Will it be where bloggers choose to collectively to meet in San Jose or NYC,<br />
Perhaps closer to home somewhere nearer to Toronto or a lake maybe?<br />
Wherever it be, I am sure the narcissistic foxes have already slyly planned<br />
The moments when they will once more meet for cunningly illicit trysts.<br />
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Yes, yet another confession, with a variety of more in the offing. Confession is good for the soul, they say and the truth will free you! Yesterday it was <a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2014/07/confessions-01-paperwork.html" target="_blank">paperwork</a>, today something totally different to confess. From the title and picture you have already gleaned it has to do with coffee.<br />
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The Beatles sang the number “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” from their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" target="_blank">album</a> of the same name, released in 1967. The first two lines of that number were, “It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play”. Well today I have been contemplating the tune's first two lines with mediocre words of my own, “It was twenty years ago today, that I gave coffee drinking away!” Yes, twenty years ago today. The 4th of July 1994, was my last cup of coffee, two full decades ago.<br />
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I am not sure I would class this as a confession, but more of a celebration. I think it has become, at times, only a confession due to the shock value it has, particularly among my coffee addict friends and colleagues, here in Austria. When I first visited to Austria as an adult, prior to my move here, it was huge shock for new friends, that I didn't drink coffee. <b>Afternoon Tea </b>invitations in Austria were usually always for <b>Afternoon Coffee</b>. The last decade has seen a shift in the beverage drinking culture here, with tea becoming a more popular addition to the afternoon drinks. Most of my friends know, by now, my beverage preferences, when they issue an invitation.<br />
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Me? I look on giving up the coffee as a celebration, coupled with a fond remembrance of the wonderful day spent with my Dad. We were still living in Australia at that time. I had just returned home from a trip interstate to visit family. My Father suggested we have a rather long lunch at our favourite restaurant, <a href="http://www.rossini.com.au/Home/628/n/3/0/0/" target="_blank">Rossini</a>, located at Circular Quay in Sydney. I had the day off. We had consumed a couple of bottles of <a href="https://www.1stchoice.com.au/Sparkling/seaview-brut-de-brut-750ml_156493" target="_blank">Seaview Brut de Brut</a>, or Bubbly, with our wonderful Octopus salad. We were toasting my return home.<br />
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We decided to end lunch with a full strength cup of Espresso. I had just spent two wonderful weeks in Tasmania with family, drinking only tea, not even decaf coffee. That Expresso was a killer, for a decaf drinker. The result was an unhappy tummy and the conviction to give coffee up for life. The lunch and afternoon in good company was still wonderful, despite the ill effects of that last cup of coffee. I miss those wonderful fun loving days with my Dad. Each one of those in itself is worth remembering. maybe this is why giving up coffee, remains such vivid a memory.<br />
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Do I miss drinking coffee? Not at all! Neither does my stomach. :) After 20 years without a drink of coffee, I suspect I have still a number of years left to continue to contemplating life without it. I can safely say that after two decades, I can go another 20 years of life without a cup of coffee. Please, feel free to check back with me on 4 July 2034, to confirm that I haven't lapsed.<br />
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So while the citizens of the USA celebrate their 4th of July Independence Day, I will celebrate my 4 July Coffee Free Decision Day. A French colleague was so impressed and amused enough by this resolute conviction, that she referred me to the hilarious YouTube video included below. The subject revolves around the extreme effects of over consumption of coffee. You don’t need to understand French to enjoy it. The animation is self explanatory and I luckily found one with subtitles. I can’t say whether my Italian colleagues are over the shock yet, and they had no such hilarious inclusions to suggest.</div>
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Oh the infamy! Yes, it is <b>confession</b> time. From the title it is obvious what the subject of this confession is. Something everyone loathes and hates, unless they are totally nuts. From the picture you can see what I have been putting off my <b>paperwork</b>. This is just the tip of the iceberg,<br />
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So how the hell did it get to this state of affairs? Well I don’t need to file tax returns. I do not pay taxes to the government, due to my particular place of gainful employment. Now before you get manically excited, wanting to know exactly where I work, and how does one find employment there, I do pay an internal assessment. This assessment is equivalent to a tax. It contributes in a round-about way to what my country would pay as part of its’ global commitment to the organisation where I work.<br />
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Given the above, I therefore look at my mail, open it and toss my personal paperwork on the pile. Whether it is at home or in my desk draw, I can’t help thinking, "file later works, as girls just want to have fun!" Well most of this pile at home dates back almost five years, to the last time I did all the paperwork. Back then it took me a whole week to do and saw my father’s living room floor strewn with piles of paperwork. It was eventually sorted into some order. That episode left me with the resolution <b>“NEVER AGAIN!”</b><br />
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Two very useful words, <b>“never again”</b>, when you listen to them. As you can see I obviously failed to. These words also run across many events in my life, but the paperwork is the confession of the day. Worst is, the pile featured in the picture is not a resent. It has been like this for nearly two months and still growing. <b>Oh joy! Oh bliss! </b>Part two of this confession is, do I really want to hoe into this weekend, or could it wait for another one. Maybe, I could go as far as to consider indulging in it next year. One more year really couldn't hurt! ;)<br />
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I can’t believe I have so many excuses to get out of it. If it was classed as a dereliction of duty, I would probably have faced a <b>firing squad</b> by now. I have been trying to analyse why I keep putting it off. I think comes down to two primary causes:</div>
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When I remember living in Australia, the filing had a more simplistic sense of order and purpose. It was never an issue. Even the paperwork, I amassed in Germany was easy. Maybe it was due to the fact that I was obliged to file tax returns in these two countries. Working where I do now, it has not been a necessity, hence chaos reigns in that pile of ever growing paperwork.<br />
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Maybe it was that I had a once had a better sense of how I should order the paperwork. I had a system, which I now have been procrastinating over for the last year. I don’t think the current one works as well as I would like it too. Contemplating a new system of order, is taking time. More so because I must admit, I am not working on one. ;)<br />
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So what is this saying to me? I am procrastinating on something that should be so simple. When one considers that at the workplace I am known for my planning and organisation skills “par excellence” to the point about being pedantic, the paperwork should not be such a demon. Even without taxes, putting my personal paperwork into order would be useful.<br />
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<li>First choice, and what the <b>Angel</b> is whispering the message: <b>"It has to be done this weekend." </b></li>
<li>Second choice, and what the little <b>Demon</b> is whispering is a totally different message: <b>“Girl’s just want to have fun” </b></li>
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A couple of weeks ago, I finally got my first indication that summer was truly underway. A personal tradition that began way back in 2008. Back then I shot a photo the first one of a pair of ducks, swimming on the pond/fountain at the complex where I work.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">I say pond/fountain as because it is so big I am never sure, even with the water spouts, whether it is one or the other. You could even describe it as a pool. If they didn't empty it for winter, it would make a jolly good skating rink. If they failed to empty it, it would crack from the expanding water as it froze.</span><br />
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Generally, the ducks make an appearance each year around early May, and usually always in pairs. I think it has been the same pair each year, and sometimes accompanied by one or more of their most recent brood. This year the fountain was filled weeks later than usual. No idea why. It may have been a cost saving exercise. It may have been the unseasonally cool weather. So the first and only fowl that turned up was the young drake, featured in the pictures above, during the first week of June. </div>
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It is nice to have seen him, even if he only stayed for the evening. The month of May had been a bit disappointing, without that private indication of summer being on its way. Just as disappointing as the weather had been. Since I have seen this little chap, I truly feel that summer has been heralded and the weather has started to behave in agreement.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Journeys are roads to awareness on many plains. Most have purposes. Some are for fun; some are for illicit acts, full of deceit; some are to catch up with family and friends; some are for business; while others may have a deep therapeutic purpose.<br />
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I undertake a special journey regularly, to a nice area of Austria to undertake an exploration into the influences that have shaped my development, my subsequent choices and life effecting decisions. These journeys, take me to a peaceful environment. The therapeutic journeys started a year ago, and were decades overdue.<br />
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Since March/April this year, after junketing the latest most negative influence, the therapy has been progressing leaps and bounds. I have also received lots of "homework". Professional therapy does not stop after each journey. It is a hell of a lot of continuing work. The March "homework" was to go away and research professional essays on narcissists, their influences and their modus operandi.<br />
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The other result has been to reinforce the most important advice you can ever receive, never ever read books or essays by self-appointed experts on subjects that they are not professionally trained to comment on. Anecdotal life accounts are interesting as biography, but can be very dangerous when packaged as facts and advice, without professional study and training behind that advice. These subjects will be explored and touch on, in-depth, in later essays.<br />
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Junketing the conditioning that lead me to accepting narcissists into my life is very difficult, but the growing understanding of this conditioning, is a positive step to avoiding narcissistic influences in future. When I now read correspondence and explore other forms of recorded contact, I see the signs and recognise the behaviour of the most recent narcissist for what it was. I also see how my conditioning led to my responses to this behaviour.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Interlinking this most recent experience, which left me feeling broken, to the initial 14 years of narcissistic conditioning and previous experiences from other narcissists, has accelerated enlightenment and awareness. It has also spearheaded the intense cathartic healing, that is currently taking place within, and outside of, me.<br />
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Since the research, the therapy of the last 3 months has been more intense, at times traumatic and lastly most enlightening. For my therapist, it has been a breakthrough. My new homework is to write on any and everything. Whether the writing is externalising the issues explored in therapy or anything else, it will be part of this particular journey. It will also continue, once this type of journey ends. </div>
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The writing is continuation on what I commenced early this year. The only difference is that now it will be holds barred writing, should I choose to lay my soul bare and chat about my negative experiences and the people involved in. It is no longer just confined to mediocre poetry.<br />
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This last journey, via intense therapy, has provided me with the vision and knowledge to recognise the individuals that have influenced my development and the subsequent choices I made, for what they really are, whether narcissistic or not. Some choices and influences have been good. Others damaging to extreme, especially when involving the narcissistic type of individual.<br />
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When I downloaded the card, I looked twice. In the case of this first accidental snap (Oops #01), it was way out of focus and greatly blurred, albeit there was something strangely captivating in the shot. I liked it, finding it quite attractive in an arty-farty type of way.<br />
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Around about the beginning of May each year, on my way to and from work, or just into the city, I start to watch for my favourite summer season fruit, vegetables and berry stall. This is generally a large table located on the lower level of the Tram Junction at the U-Bahn station at Schottentor. I have been doing this since my first summer in Vienna, which was way back in 2006.<br />
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The first offerings of the season are generally strawberries, and strangely small bunches of Lily of the Valley. Maybe this has to do with the fact that here they are called Maiglöckchen (May Bells) and/or they are a nice Mother’s Day present. This year the Lily of the Valley was missing. They had sprouted and bloomed way back in March. The strawberries on the other hand have arrived just on schedule.<br />
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I had ignored the strawberries in the rush to get to work during the first two weeks of stall's return. Today was a different story, as the photo indicates. The strawberries looked so good, smelt so sweet and full with scent of natural sugar. They smelt like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_candy" target="_blank">fairy floss</a>, (cotton candy or candy floss elsewhere in the world and as Zuckerwatte in Austria). The temptation was too much, I went all out and bought a kilo. Not one came home with me.<br />
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Now before anyone jumps to the conclusion that I am a gluttonous little soul, I shared some of the strawberries with colleagues at the office. I had to smile when they asked whether they came from my garden, as I don’t have a garden, or a Strawberry Field. My general response, with another smile, even sweeter than the strawberries, was “I picked them fresh at Schottentor.”<br />
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The stall at Schottentor is run by the family <a href="http://www.digles-fruechte.at/" target="_blank">Digles</a>, from the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinviertel)" target="_blank">Weinviertel</a> of Austria, located north of Vienna. They also have other stalls at various <a href="http://www.digles-fruechte.at/verkaufsstellen.html" target="_blank">points</a> throughout the city. Besides the various harvest of the season, they also sell "home made" goodies, like Schnapps, jams and liquors. I don't think in all the years I have bought from the stall that quality of the purchases has been less than great. Always harvest and freshly delivered on a daily basis.<br />
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Other farms or farm cooperatives also sell throughout Vienna, and Austria, during summer. Vienna also has year round markets, that have stalls with some Austrian produce to found amongst the imported. The rest of the year, I don’t eat strawberries as they are imported from countries that use chemicals in the cultivation. These countries don’t follow the same standards that discerning Austrian’s have come to expect from their farmers.<br />
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If you are travelling to Vienna during the summer season, I highly recommend that you try the fruit from the summer stalls which are around to later September. Much better than dropping into a supermarket or buying from the larger markets. You are helping a local farmers and you know the quality is worth the few extra cents. Today, I actually didn't find the price I paid expensive when I compared it to what I paid for the ones in the supermarket last week for similar Austrian grown strawberries. </div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>raspberries, black berries, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>anything with an 'errie' in it!</i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">"</span></span></i></span></div>
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It is strange how something small can evoke for many people strong emotions and fond memories. For me it is a small lump of plastic (W1.8cm x B0.8cm x H1.3cm) in the form of little pink pig with the cutest black beady eyes, a red snout, red trotters and two red spots. This little pig evokes such a strong poignant feeling of love, profound loss, happiness, sorrow, despair and melancholy all at the one time.<br />
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These little pigs are sold in their thousands each year throughout Austria and other parts of Europe as a New Year <a href="http://www.kcblau.com/goodluck/" target="_blank">token</a>, along with other shapes. They are given out to the customers who frequent your business, children, friends and family as wishes for the coming year. Wishes for the recipient. Pieces of luck, fortune, health, joy, love, wealth, abundance, etc., made out of marzipan, chocolate, plastic, wood, felt, fabric, metal, clay, paper or any other medium that can be fashioned into a shape or image. The pig is one of the images for luck.<br />
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I can remember Daddy coming home with this tiny pig from a New Year’s Day 2012 party. I asked who his little friend was. Dad told me it was mine. I argued that he should keep it. He was equally insistent I was to take it with me when I returned to Vienna for good luck. So there and then, we baptised the pig, “Piggeldey Wiggeldey”.<br />
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My Father was not much on gift giving, he would always give us money to buy what we wanted. It was easier for him. He wasn't big on shopping. So whenever he did actually give us something other than money, it was something I treasured, because he thought about it.<br />
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So why does Piggeldey Wiggeldey evoke such a strong poignant feeling of love, profound loss, happiness, sorrow, despair and melancholy for me when I look at him, you may ask? It was the last New Year’s Day that I shared with my Daddy and he gave me his little plastic New Year’s pig. It is the sweetest gift I ever received from my parent. My Dad wanted me to be lucky. I was lucky to have such a parent and I am so lucky he left a piece of his love in the material form of Piggeldey Wiggeldey, to be with me forever. </div>
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O Fortune,<br />
like the moon<br />
you are changeable,<br />
ever waxing<br />
and waning;<br />
hateful life<br />
first oppresses<br />
and then soothes<br />
as the sharp mind takes it;<br />
poverty<br />
and power<br />
it melts them like ice.<br />
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Fate – monstrous<br />
and empty,<br />
you whirling wheel,<br />
you are malevolent,<br />
well-being is vain<br />
and always fades to nothing,<br />
shadowed<br />
and veiled<br />
you plague me too;<br />
now through the game<br />
I bring my bare back<br />
to your villainy.<br />
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Fate – in health<br />
and virtue –<br />
is against me,<br />
driven on<br />
and weighted down,<br />
always enslaved.<br />
So at this hour<br />
without delay<br />
pluck the vibrating strings;<br />
since Fate<br />
<b>strikes down the strong man,</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been experimenting with some rather arty shots, “gathering” these arty ones of nuts with their bolts. Not something that would be usually classed as beautiful, I found these ones strangely attractive in their collected form. All thrown together in a box, waiting to be used or recycled back into the track work, where they would then perform their designated function. </span><br />
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Nuts in May, nuts in May,</div>
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Here we go gathering nuts in May,</div>
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Who will you have for nuts in May,</div>
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Nuts in May, nuts in May,</div>
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Who will you have for nuts in May,</div>
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On a cold and frosty morning.</div>
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We'll have June for nuts in May,</div>
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Nuts in May, nuts in May,</div>
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We'll have June for nuts in May,</div>
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On a cold and frosty morning.</div>
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Who will you have to fetch him/her away,</div>
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Fetch him/her away, fetch him/her away,</div>
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Who will you have to fetch him/her away,</div>
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On a cold and frosty morning.</div>
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We'll have Jim to fetch him/her away,</div>
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Fetch him/her away, fetch him/her away,</div>
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We'll have Jim to fetch him/her away,</div>
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On a cold and frosty morning.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but not for the nuts and bolts.</i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My last trip to the Alps gave me <a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2014/05/spring-natures-promise-of-warmer-days.html" target="_blank">spring</a> and April showers. I decided then that I should start pushing my camera to the max and improve my photography skills. It was basically let’s see what we are both made of. Of course my PENTAX K-7 DSLR is made of metal, rubber, circuitry and glass. Me? Well, I am “made of sugar and spice and everything nice,” because that is what little girls are made of, according to an old popular nursery rhyme, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Are_Little_Boys_Made_Of%3F" target="_blank">What are little boys made of"</a>. That, of course, is another story.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The above aside, I spent that trip photographing everything that caught my eye, and really gave the Pentax a workout, while improving on my skills. Since then I haven’t stopped. Besides the flower, insects, mountains and anything of interest that catches my eye, I also photograph raindrops. Raindrops are not simple things to photograph, (or anything small for that matter), when you don’t always have both lenses with you and you are sometimes stuck using the 55-200mm. This is the case with these wet green snaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The raindrops also has set off childhood memories, like the old John (once upon a time Johnny) Farnham's cover of B.J. Thomas’s old number “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my Head.” B.J.'s version featured in the movie “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid)" target="_blank"><i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</i></a>” releases in 1969. Like a nursery rhyme, this number has stuck in the memory, having made it to number 1 on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_in_Australia_during_the_1970s" target="_blank">Aussie Pop Charts in 1970</a><u>. </u>I included the YouTube video below of John’s, then Johnny, cover of the song. I have a vague memory that I use to play it on the local's jukebox, when I was out with my parents and Dad gave me some small change. I think he stopped giving me small change, after it was the only song I chose for weeks on end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another memory will always be the sound of the raindrops on the tin roof at my Grandparent’s farm in Tasmania. It rains a lot in Tasmania. Lying in bed at night, having chosen the prime location at the corner of the verandah, just behind the chimney stack of the living room, the raindrops would beat a melodic symphony on the unlined tin roof, which was quite mesmerising. It could always lull you into a sound, dreamless sleep. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I did a little more research on raindrops in music, found that they get some rather nice coverage in a few songs, ambient music and the pure natural sound of rain. I purposely did not choose the Sound of Music number. [My sister, I suspect not be disappointed in the decision ;). I have provided the link to that one, in the selection of "Raindrops" links below* :)]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"</span></span>Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams.</i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"</span></span></i><br />
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A further tale of adventure from <b>Austria</b>, the land <b>without</b> the Kangaroos. I have recently been musing about why people choose to visit this small country. For this article, I decide to ask Google the simple little question <b>“why do people visit Austria?”</b> Interestingly auto select tried to convince me that I wanted Australia, the land <b>with</b> the Kangaroos, but I wasn't going to play that little Google game. I stumbled across 2 blog/webpages that both provided me with a list of ten and five reasons respectively:<br />
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1. Classical Music; 2. The Austrian Alps; 3. Architecture; 4. "The Sound of Music"; 5.Food; 6. Drinks; 7. Weather; 8. Railways; 9. Dancing; 10. Yodelling</div>
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1. Yodelling; 2. Mountains; 3. Classical Music; 4.Architecture; 5.Food & Drink<br />
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Well I am going to let you into a not so small secret, these lists are missing a very important element. Austria also has a thriving Art scene. Quite unsung if the two lists above are an indication, but thriving. It has been surviving for centuries. The most discerning tourists knows about it and the world masses do know about such artists as Klimt, Schiele, Fuchs, Hundertwasser et al. The Art Scene however does not seem to make the lists, aside from that provided by the famous galleries.<br />
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For this article I am going to concentrate on Vienna and in particular the 18th district of Vienna called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4hring" target="_blank">Währing</a>. This is the district I have lived in for about 9 years, when I am not travelling home to the Alps. I have finally decided to take an indepth look at the district and last weekend afforded me the opportunity on a platter – <a href="http://www.art18.at/view_site/site.php" target="_blank">ARTWALK18</a>! <br />
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This year was the first year that <b>artwalk18</b> has been run and I have to say it was great fun for me and my friends. The walk encompassed a combination 60 artists and galleries, exhibiting works across a gambit of styles and genres, such as the visual arts, performance arts, architecture and animation. The event was run over two days and I took in both of them along with friends. The weather was lousy, (see my last <a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2014/05/baby-it-was-cold-outside-eisheilige-2014.html" target="_blank">post</a>), but the exhibits were wonderful, the company I was in was terrific and the people that we met were great. I wasn't surprised by the talent on show, more by the number of galleries and artists in the district that I failed to previously pay attention to.<br />
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Let’s return to <b>artwalk18</b>. As mentioned above it was great. I suspect, like myself, most people have their favourites based on artistic tastes or the way they experienced a particular gallery. I have a number that especially peaked my visual interest and just filled me with good vibes by being there. Next year’s walk will no doubt bring other highlights and new experiences.<br />
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Most of the permanent galleries, whether exhibitors and/or artists, are open throughout the year at various times and the information can be found as to when on their individual websites. All are contactable to arrange visits. Austrians tend to be very accommodating about arranging visits. If you are planning to visit, the list of galleries and artists for <b>artwalk18</b> can be found on the <a href="http://www.art18.at/view_site/site.php?lang=de&mid=46" target="_blank">Art18</a> webpage. They are also list on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/art18.at?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a> for up to date information.<br />
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I am not going to list all the galleries, exhibiting artists and local artists here. I would like to recommend that if you are coming to Austria and you enjoy great art as a collector or just for the visual feast, go for it and check out the galleries in Vienna. Not only those to be found in the 18th, but all through this city.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Vienna and Austria are not just all about Classical Music; The Austrian Alps; Architecture; "The sound of Music"; Food; Drinks; Weather; Railways; Dancing; and Yodelling. I can't emphasis enough that art is an active cultural treasure to be found throughout Austria, not olnly in Vienna. Not only the old masters as well as great artists of the late 19th and 20th century stowed away in those wonderful museums we have, but the thriving community of contemporary artists, as well as both local and international exhibitors are well worth a detour from the normal tourist menu.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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My recommendation is that if you plan to travel here next year and would like a different tourist or cultural experience, plan to come when the next artwalk18 is scheduled. There are also other art festivals in Vienna and throughout Austria throughout the year. Any number of these could just coincide with your trip :) . Do a little research :)<br />
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For anyone in Vienna reading this and who missed <b>artwalk18</b>, you missed a true highlight. Not only the experience of the galleries and artists mentioned above, but a walk around the 18th, despite the weather, was a great way to experience this lovely district. For anyone planning to visit Vienna, I also recommend a stroll around the 18th. It has some other hidden treasures besides the galleries to visit. As I get around to exploring them, I may write about them. To finish, all I can say, is I intend to be present for <b>artwalk18</b> 2015!<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Most years in May, with some exceptions, Austria along with most of Europe goes through an icy spell that throws us back into winter for a week. Those glorious spring days seem to take a break or disappear without so much as a protest to be replaced by rain, icy winds and extremely cold weather. In the Alps, the days can sometimes herald the last of the winter snowfall for the year. After that is generally becomes a downhill run into summer. <span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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The days are referred to at the Eisheilige (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Saints" target="_blank">Ice Saints</a>). The worst day is usually St. Sophia’s feast day and she is referred to as the Kalte Sophie (Cold Sophie). Despite global warming and indications of climate change during the seasons, these days religiously, (pardon the pun), arrive every year around the same time and have for centuries. Farmers generally hold off some of their labours, to ensure that any work in the fields is not wasted. The days generally are:<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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This year Vienna, Austria was struck during the period of 13 through to 18 May in particular. The dates don’t always coincide with the Ice Guys, as the historical average indicates on the chart. The days can also be slightly different in other areas of Austria. For Vienna, This year Pankratius seems to have had a holiday. Mamertus did kick it off though an obvious drop of 6 degrees from the day before. Bonifatius seemed not to be so serious as in other years. Sophia, on the other hand, was just a cold as ever. </div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" target="_blank">Austria</a> (the country without Kangaroos). Thank you <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchita_Wurst" target="_blank">Conchita Wurst</a>, who represent ed the country at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest</a>. The song, though not brilliant, was better than many of the others presented, having a message that was powerful and clear for everyone who listened to the lyrics.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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After watching the Contest program with friends last night, I had originally decided on a very different and perhaps more amusing essay to celebrate Austria’s first win since 1966. I was going to base it on a remark from one of the friend about it being a “James Bond” song. I have changed my mind since then.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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From various comments I have read on YouTube today, while researching for the essay, some people and some nations still have to mature and listen to the message that Conchita is bringing to Austria and the world. The most negative comments have been no different than the message that a dictatorship that ruled Austria over 60 years ago and the world went to war over – Intolerance. Even Austria, the country needed a maturity lesson, but I do hope Russia and the other losing nations got it also, especially the ones which lobbied to have her song removed from the broadcasts to their nations.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Austria is often portrayed on the world stage as still being intolerant on a number of issues due to a marginal element who feature on that stage by being in the public limelight and politics. Surprisingly, I have found since living here that while intolerance is still to found in some marginal quarters Austria is not as intolerant as one would expect. It is a democratic republic with a growing tolerance that is slowly drowning out intolerance in all its ugly forms. It may be quiet about it, but it is nice to witness.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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The message delivered by the song was clear and concise – one of <b>tolerance</b> and acceptance for the <b>freedom of choice</b>, and the <b>diversity</b> that makes up this world. Without it the world would be a boring place. Many of Conchita’s songs have similar messages in the words. <span style="text-align: left;">D</span>iscrimination won't destroy her life and it shouldn't destroy anyone's else.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<b>Congratulations to Conchita</b>. Thank the universe for people like her and the role model she is proving to be. Austria should be very <b>proud</b> of Conchita bringing home the title. She has proved to be truly a modern Austrian icon, in the footsteps of many Austrians who have actually been positive for this nation's image and for the world in the messages they have delivered, the discoveries they have made and the creativity they have left for us to marvel at.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hark! Ness perfidiously glides from the new world’s shore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That false gem behind Peter’s counterfeit gates of gold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Traverses for another not so serendipitous rendezvous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two-faced audaciously vain painted from top to floor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Selfish and perfidious in abandonment of kith and kin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Deaf to loyalties laments and heart’s tears hidden in mist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Savouring further a succulent two-faced plan so bold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">She </span>connivingly<span style="font-family: inherit;"> travels to be with her Gallian paramour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Indulging again so blatantly in well planned salacious sin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">With plots to lay of envisaged trysts on new world’s shore</span><br />
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I have become rather fascinated by the Street Art since living in Europe. In particular the form of Street Art delivered via the medium of stencils, some of which can be found in the area of Gersthof, located in Vienna, where I live. Every time I come across a stencil I haven’t seen or an improved image of one, (or a <a href="http://celestialpoet.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/shoot-chutes.html" target="_blank">coal chutes</a> for that matter), I just can’t help snapping them. </div>
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Poor graffiti and Street Art does nothing for me, less than nothing when it defaces a building. Most of the stencil art in Vienna has been neatly applied to boring removable features of buildings, hydrants and telephone or electric junction boxes, that could do with a little uplift and can be easily cleaned. I do suspect the local council’s may not agree, but then again I haven’t witnessed a rush to clean any of them away, in this hyper maintained and very clean city.<br />
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My featured snaps remind me of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin'_On_the_Ritz" target="_blank">"Puttin' on the Ritz"</a> from "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Skies_(film)" target="_blank">Blue Skies</a>" (1946), (or maybe perhaps the 1929 movie "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlDk7_Ncpw" target="_blank">Phantom of the Opera</a>") and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema" target="_blank">Golden Years of Hollywood</a>. The montage of photos included here are two that were taken last year on different walks and for record I just couldn’t help thinking of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire" target="_blank">Fred Astaire</a> in that great movie scene from "Blue Skies" . The number was also performed in earlier and later movies, firstly by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Richman" target="_blank">Harry Richman</a>, with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66km3m_UE_k" target="_blank">original lyrics</a>, in the 1930's movie "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin'_On_the_Ritz_(film)" target="_blank">Puttin on the Ritz</a>" then by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable" target="_blank">Clark Gable</a> in the 1939 film "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot's_Delight_(film)" target="_blank">Idiot's Delight</a>" and who could forget the comic version performed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder" target="_blank">Gene Wilder</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Boyle" target="_blank">Peter Boyle</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brooks" target="_blank">Mel Brooks</a>' 1974 film "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein" target="_blank">Young Frankenstein</a>". I also couldn't get past adding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin" target="_blank">Irving Berlin’s</a> “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails”, sung by Astaire and which he also performed in the 1935 movie “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Hat" target="_blank">Top Hat</a>”. </div>
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Graffiti or Street Art is something you either love or hate. Images and art of any form speak to each person with a different voice. For me the two stencil examples of Street Art, that have sparked this post, speak of "Puttin' on the Ritz". Gersthof, in Vienna, is probably the type of suburb well suited to that and quite appropriate for these two examples :) – aged, elegant, vibrant and debonair.</div>
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<i>On that famous thoroughfare, </i><br />
<i>with their noses in the air</i><br />
<i>High hats and Arrowed collars, </i><br />
<i>white spats and lots of dollars</i><br />
<i>Spending every dime, </i><br />
<i>for a wonderful time</i><br />
<i>If you're blue and you</i><br />
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<i>Why don't you go where fashion sits, </i><br />
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<i>Dressed up like a million dollar trouper</i><br />
<i>Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper </i><br />
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<i>Come let's mix where Rockefellers </i><br />
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<i>To a lady with a wealthy pappy (very snappy)</i><br />
<i>You'll declare it's simply topping to be there</i><br />
<i>And hear them swapping smart titbits</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The crowns o' the world.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oh, eyes sublime</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>With tears and laughter for all time</i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"</span></span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Vision of Poets</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </i></div>
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Well today, 23 April 2014, has been a day filled with a
gross amount of hype surrounding that great playwright and poet, William
Shakespeare. Why today? If you haven’t already noticed, most scholars guesstimate
that his birthdate was 23 April 1564. The basis of this is the fact that most
babies of the period were christened within three days of their birth. The parish
records from Strafford-upon-Avon have young Will being baptised on 26 April
1564. So “to be, or not to be” this is the date that the venerable Bard’s
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Most of us have a love/hate relationship having been first
introduced to his plays as school children, forced to study various school
selected plays that had to be read and analysed in great detail, causing many
of us great amounts of misery. Well the tragedies at least. The comedies are
debatable. I have to admit I did enjoy the comedies.<br />
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I have learnt to appreciate the plays so much more as I have
gotten older, though I do need to confess there are some plays I just can’t
warm too. I remember attending a rather bad performance of “Othello” as a
school kid. I was not partial to the play to start with. The cast was comprised of various members of an
Australian made soap opera of the 70s call “The Young Doctors”. Despite trying
to get out of attending due to a near incapacitating bout of the flu, I was
forced by the school to go and encouraged by my dear beloved parent to attend as well. The performance was so bad that due to the fatigue of being sick, I feel
asleep in the first act, not waking until the second act. Put me off the play
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Of course I have seen appreciatively better performances of
the Bard of Avon’s plays since and suspect I will see more in the years to come. My
favourite play I think will always be “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. I think this
probably steams from the fact is such a fun bawdy frolic and I have seen a
number of superb performances. The best of which will always be the two performances I attended at the Sydney Botanical Gardens, out in the open, on balmy summer evenings,
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I have also enjoy
Henry V, the movie versions. Both Lawrence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh’s performances in their
respective movies were brilliant. Among my other favourites , I count “Titus
Andronicus”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Twelfth Night”, “Macbeth”, "Merry Wives of Windsor" and “Measure
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<span style="text-align: left;">S</span>o where has that bought me in this ramble – ah yes –
whether you love or hate, all or some of Shakespeare’s works for whatever
reason, you can’t deny that the 450<sup>th</sup> birthday of the little boy, made good, from Strafford-upon-Avon is worth celebrating. I am not going into the pros and
cons of his works or into the “did he or didn't he” actually write the works. Enough has been said and done on those subjects. These are the poor remembrances of the once school girl, who as an adult has come to
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Unfaithful spinner of promotional yarns.<br />
Given less than serendipitous chances,<br />
Union secretly in multiplicity is broken.<br />
Superficial perfidious sense of kinsfolk care.<br />
Attractive made unattractively duplicitous.<br />
Truth unbeknown, but a worthless consort.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when it is not honestly open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when one seeks to deceive all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when it involves more than two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when only two really know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when public face is false.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when it involves cheating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when one hides the skeleton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when hidden in false integrity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when breaking decades of trust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when done behind convenient alibis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only when talking about the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…when you realise it about personality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…never when practised in public honesty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…only with lack of honesty and character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s complicated…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">… within the person not in the relationship.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">© W. Heron, 2014</span></div>
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