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<p><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Corporeal prison". , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, (88 x 60 cm) x x</strong></em></p> <p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">When we feel that our default thinking is creeping up on us and starts stifling our minds, we must break the shell of our habits. If rehashed thoughts and bland humdrum are smothering the upshot of subdued cravings, we must create space for the budding of a new dawn. By unsealing all the windows of our mental dungeon, we loosen up our rusty thinking and cut ties with the useless prerogatives of the past.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">People may have become prisoners of their daily habits at some point in their lives. Feeling bound to remain hostages of choices they made in the past, they start realizing they never actually wanted to make them. As they wish to abandon their corporal prison, they want to say farewell to a jailed existence.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Schizophrenic pandemic aggressions may keep us in confinement of our physical arrest. Still, if we have no other tools in our shed, we must grind our teeth and take a deep breath, sharpening our awareness and using the time to recognize what is essential in life.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">As many people are in turmoil, they put many substantial questions. Incessantly asking themselves what it means "to be essential," they wonder whether "usefulness" has a crucial function in life. Indeed, many people can only survive through necessary and valuable effects. However, can we dispel "unusefulness" as worthless? For some, art and games may be "useless," yet, they are fundamental means of survival.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Many think they play the last act of their life as their world is in turmoil. To insistent questions, the answer is killing silence. The banks of their patience are bursting, and upheaval disturbs their interior world. Yet, this disruption allows them to restore their emotional power. The air they breathe is purified, and the oppressive environment is cleansed.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">If we feel incarcerated in the trenches of viral wars, let us not give way to a defensive 'fear' reflex or offensive 'rage' reflex. But let us follow our orienting 'adventure' reflex and explore the numerous paths to a new reality.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">If we end up in frustrating situations, trapped by paradoxical rules, we may feel lost in unsolvable logic puzzles. The time may come to break free from any 'physical' prison and head for new horizons.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">If we give up stifling surroundings and quit an eroded lifestyle, the wounds contracted in the jailhouse of our body can heal. Hope and determination alleviate the scars and relieve pain and ill feelings.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">When we still hear the enlightening sounds in the deep grooves of our memory, we can be sure we have not lived beyond the focus of attention, crippled by the deafened ripples of mental silence.</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"> </span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon: “decision” and “choice” - Chromatic presentation of a farewell to a jailed existence.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #202122; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point: person with prison bars on back</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Corporal_prison
<p><strong><em>"Mutual understanding" , by </em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong><em>Erik Pevernagie</em></strong></span></span></a><strong><em>, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm</em></strong></p> <p><br /><strong><em> People can have a " mutual understanding " with some other people who have a feeling of being "special" .</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>'Special' like Chrissie Hynde in "Brass In Pocket" of The Pretenders (" I'm special, so special, I got to have some of your attention, give it to me").</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>There must be a common ability to sympathize feelings of each other. Those people must be out of the ordinary. They should be compatible, be a good match and supposed to be suit for companionship and fun in many diverse things.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>"Mutual understanding" could mean a bonded relationship, sharing common values and interests, or be the result of it.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Mutual understanding becomes misunderstanding, when there are no longer commitments, no definite expectations, no responsibilities and no common objectives. Misunderstanding may end up in regret and cause pain and confusion. It can become a "heartache" like for </em></strong><a title="Bonnie Tyler" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong><em>Bonnie Tyler</em></strong></span></span></a><strong><em> : " It's A Heartache " (It hits you when it's too late, It hits you when you are down)</em></strong></p> <p><a title="W. H. Auden" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong><em>W. H. Auden</em></strong></span></span></a><strong><em> has not a rather pinky view on any human bonds, when he says that "Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."</em></strong></p> <p><br /><strong><em>Phenomenon: Mutual understanding</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Factual starting point of the painting: two women on a line</em></strong></p>

Mutual understanding
<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><strong><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p> <p><em><strong>"Portera le chapeau" , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 100x 80 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> When something goes wrong or a situation becomes awkward a scapegoat has to be found.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Somebody has to be held responsible.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>When people are caught in an embarrassing position, they are anxious to find somebody to hold accountable for their upsetting situation. As they have to save face they need someone to take the blame, to carry the hat (" Porter le chapeau").</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Taking the blame</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Hat</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"><strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong> <em> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> </em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Portera le chapeau
<p><em><strong>"This is no chicken feed" , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> We often wonder, what value signifies and what it implies. What is the value that we give to objects? We say “its peanuts” when something has no value. If it has some value: “ It is no </strong></em><a title="Chicken" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chicken" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>chicken</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> feed.”</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Value may depend on offer and demand. It can increase, decrease or change. If it is seen in relation with individual or cultural interpretations, it is to be considered as relative value</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>If value remains constant without depending on collective or personal interpretations we deal with absolute value or intrinsic value. The object has no relational characteristic and no relative value.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>When intrinsic value depends on extrinsic elements, the object or artifact is not an end in itself and has, in fact, no value on its own. It is contingent on external preoccupations and represents an instrument in the hands of the owner(s): good investments. It becomes instrumental value.</strong></em></p> <p><a title="Gerhard Richter" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Gerhard Richter</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> accuses this kind of situation in March 2015 in “Die Zeit”. He denunciates the exorbitant prices his artworks achieve at auction. This is a proof of how “insanely the art market has developed," and how the prices have nothing to do with the work. He sees it as a “frightening development." and notes a large disparity between quality and price in the art market.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In actual fact, if we want to know if an object or artifact is chicken feed or not, we have to distinguish instrumental value from intrinsic value and make a choice.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Intrinsic and extrinsic Value</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Chicken and chicken feed</strong></em></p>

This is no chicken food
<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p><em><strong>"Tout compte fait..." - " After all..." , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> People may be reflecting profoundly on specific cases for some time. They may weigh carefully the advantages and disadvantages of a situation.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>They make then a selective choice and come to a final conclusion.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Person in this picture gets out of his sitting position and leaves the scene: ”All in all, it is not worth while wasting any time anymore”</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Decision after reflection</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Person leaving sitting condition.</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

Tout compte fait
<p><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Island of regret.- Island of remorse." by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas100 x 80 cm)</strong></em></p> <p><em style="color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Regret is the insight that comes too late. Too little and too late. Too little empathy and too late awareness.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>"Regret and remorse" are dialectic issues about what has been done, what should have been done, and what should not have been done.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Between our craves and our regrets stands the live stage of the presence that must give consistency and feel-good vibes to our life. It raises the appeal of willingness and reconciles the history of our past with the expectations of the future.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The way we evaluate things in life depends on our perception. The manner we value the quality of issues or events depends on our skill and expertise, and our assessment is determined by how we recognize and interpret facts.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When we can conciliate emotion and intelligence, we avoid slippery slopes. Being attentive and mindful allows us to show empathy and understanding. If we do not want wild passion overwhelming us, we can appraise matters unbiased and avoid remorse or regret.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>On March 13, 1964, neighbors had ignored Kitty Genovese's screams for help as she was stabbed to death. Neighbors heard her crying but remained "apathetic." </strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Later on, they expressed remorse for their lack of concern for what they had not done: notably getting involved and calling the police. This practical example of a collective loss of innocence illustrates the indisposition to assist neighbors or peers in need. The "Genovese syndrome" points up a failed construction of living together and a hapless functioning of modern urban life.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon</em></strong> : Remorse - Regret - urban apathy</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point</span></em></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> ːtwo figures looking downwards</span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: red; letter-spacing: .75pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Island of regret or island of remorse
<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Trompe le pied." , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>The eye can be fooled, and the foot can be fooled as well. ”Trompe l’oeil“ can result in “Trompe le pied.” Watch your step! We may stumble and twist an ankle.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>By extension, we should think twice sometimes, and not let first impressions deceive ourselves.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>By a next extension, when shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up, and poker-faced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword since rippling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>By a further extension, although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits, or mysterious undercurrent power games, some tell-tale social flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>By monetary extension, financial advisors should be given the third degree, since many people have been fooled by the “Trompe le pied” of the stock exchange as they stumbled on the cascade of the Dow Jones interactive share price charts.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>As a whole, we may do well to be attentive to the good and the bad vibrations in life. Since elephants use their feet to listen to vibrations and thus capture significant codes of impending peril, they might coach humans and teach them how to become “surefooted” in perilous times.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Keeping feet on the ground, however, should not hinder us from flying high and reaching soaring heights!</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Deception of the ear</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Female legs</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

Trompe le pied
<p><strong><em>"Resilience</em></strong>",<strong><em> by Erik Pevernagie, Oil on canvas, (100 x 80 cm)</em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If we feel like deers in headlights, let us tread lightly, back up for some time, and rebound later while building on our desire to empower our backbone and guts, restore our identity and kindle our fury of living.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>With her knee in our neck, the goddess of the pandemics may have paralyzed us and hindered many from breathing freely and consciously. Only if we discover the timelessness of the moment, we may happen to encounter the blue sky in our mind and fly high into the light of happy expectations.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Many may find themselves confronting a new reality, while some feel themselves facing scary circumstances. They have to reconsider their life or start from scratch as unexpected occurrences are unsettling them,</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Therefore, let us not hesitate to say a blunt "No" when push comes to shove. Once we handle the truth, it must be without "ifs" and "buts." We need clean air and clear water. Since haggling with transparency is not in the cards, let us step down from the traditional "It Is What It Is" and definitively go for resilience.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>In discovering the world, the "I" must meet otherness and converge with the "we." If we are ready to leave our castle's safety, we can confront our sensitiveness with "outwardness," enhance our insight, and tune-up our life pattern.</strong></em></span></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>A universal vision and a joint interest are steppingstones for full-blown empathy. It is explicitly through empathy that we seize the pulsating assets of 'sharing,' sharing precious values with others.</strong></em></span></p>

"Resilience"
<p><strong><em>Finally unbend , by Pevernagie, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm </em></strong></p> <p><strong><em> After dispelling love or ravaging hate has done its work, we may come into remission from sorrow or regret and needn’t freak out while creating a soothing space for cuddling up into the warmth of a new haven. </em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>If we don’t want life to pass us by, while the world is swiveling around us, let’s look inwards and turn things upside down in the inner chambers of our mind. Only after reshuffling our rooted values can we look outwards, find out the fascination of life, and rediscover our selves, layer after layer.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em> We have to loosen up in the course of our life journey sometime. Maybe, like the tired traveler unbending in the quietness of his bedroom after an exhausting trip. </em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>When we retreat timely into a break of reflection, we can conquer the sanity of our mental condition and find a piece of stillness amid the bustle of the world. </em></strong></p>

Finally unbend
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