The Pickled Spruit

Food lover, wine drinker, cheese eater & big time smoker. Literature devourer 🍴. Bon vivant in love with #Brussels. Writer @

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The word ‘timid’ is in ‘intimidate.’

‘Intimidate’ means "to make timid.”

That’s kind of neat, right?

[Flea @flea333]

Dats correct

[Distracted Film @distractedfilm]

“The cinema is not a refuge for intellectuals, it’s a place for men and women, young and old, intellectuals and illiterates.”

- Pasolini

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

William James on the psychology of habit https://t.co/dU8Hzt7Ql8

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

This video is a 40-min masterclass by David Lynch on creativity, intuition & ideas.

He reveals:
- How intuition beats intellect
- Why the idea dictates everything
- Why chasing careers mean nothing

12 lessons from Lynch that will change how you think about creativity forever:

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

[Flea @flea333]

Lay down in a field and stare at the sky and wonder about all kinds of cosmic shit

[Art Gallery @X_ArtGallery]

Holding Hands
Persepolis (Iran), c. 500 BC

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

How do we know what we want? Milan Kundera, born on this day in 1929, on the central ambivalences of life and love https://t.co/YiTk12J73j

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The 3 Buddhist steps to repairing any relationship https://t.co/AE9oznWvuJ

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

This week oasis of small sanities, in one place – Pablo Neruda on how to hold time; the figments of love and the hallucinations of reason; the aurora borealis and the polar expedition saved by wonder: https://t.co/lvthiGXFPS

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that:

cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood

cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.

Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.

Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.

Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”

―Aldous Huxley

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

―Umberto Eco

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

How to be a tree – notes on the resilience of letting go https://t.co/lMZTJkGf6A

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

The Man Who Reads the World: David Bowie's Son Launches Online Book Club in His Honor
Something little-known about Bowie: He was an avid reader, sometimes reading a book in a day.
Rock star David Bowie was "a beast of a reader," according to his son Duncan Jones; so Jones decided to start an online book club in honor of his book-loving father.
The late rock star's official Instagram account is called "The Bowie Book Club."
David Bowie's literary tastes are wide-ranging; including classics from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary to Homer's Iliad; novels and non-fiction: history, biography, art, architecture, and more...
Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the hundred books that had transformed his life a list that formed something of an autobiography. Significantly, among Bowie’s last public statements is that this list of his Top 100 Books was offered as part of the David Bowie museum exhibition.
Since Bowie apparently left no memoirs behind, the closest thing to an autobiography is this list of books. Some he chooses because he wants his fans to read them, but many selections have a deeper resonance, as they fueled his work and shaped him as a person.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Jeff Bridges, John Goodman & Steve Buscemi reminisce about working on THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998).

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Kierkegaard on how to channel anxiety into creativity https://t.co/z5fcg83dv3