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<div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0cm; mso-element: para-border-div; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> <p><em><strong>"Homeless, down in the corner" - "If downtrodden by life" , 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 1O0 cm)</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Let them not be denied a few crumbs of attention or merely a 'twinkle of happiness' if, through the insidious intrusion of reality, the unattended cannot receive a 'lease of happiness.'</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Between shortage and absolute poverty, an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>"To be rich or not to be poor, that is the question."</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Poverty may mean hunger or homelessness, or it may stand for a mental or emotional deficiency.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If it signifies hunger or homelessness, it may represent a lethal hazard, when it bears the taint of starvation.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When it implies a mental or emotional deficiency, it may be stained by the black mark of depression or hopelessness.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If poverty concerns a shortage of money or maintenance, it relates to inequality, dependence, and inferiority.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>It is true; poverty has to be contextualized, in line with place and time.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>"Relative poverty" is dependent on the social context, measured by the proportion of median income and the percentage of the population, and refers to social inclusion and equality of opportunity.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If poverty means deprivation of basic human needs, like food, safe drinking water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, and healthcare, we have to face "absolute poverty."</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Since "poverty is the parent of revolution" (Aristotle), the governments must know that the gap between rich and poor is screaming, and they have to fill it.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>For Rainer Maria Rilke, we should take a more considerable effort to build up the spiritual poverty: "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."</strong></em></span></p> <p><strong><br /></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><em><strong>We could say that man is rich or poor according to what he "is," not according to what he "has." William Butler Yeats has no money, but has his dreams: "I, being poor, have only my dreams." Bertolt Brecht sees something positive in poverty: "Poverty makes you sad as well as wise." Woody Allen prefers to have money for financial reasons: "Money is better than debt, if only for economic purposes.</strong></em></span></p> <p><strong><br /><em>Phenomenon: Relative and absolute poverty</em></strong></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Homeless on the pavement</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><em> </em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><em> </em></p> </div>

Homeless, down in the corner
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"</strong></em><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>New York</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> at arm's length of desire", 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 100 cm)</strong></em></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>People in quest of happiness may try to find it in some mythical places that invite settling down for a while.</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>A city can become a metaphor for boundless possibilities. The Big Apple has always embodied an ultimate dream since it symbolizes temptation, desire, and inspiration. It is at arm's length of passion and fulfillment and happiness.</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>Happiness is the potential of sharing destiny and letting loose. We may see it burgeoning in the curve of a sensitive vibe and growing into a swinging outline if we can listen to the rustling silence in the foliage of 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>Happiness can flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches, or sometimes smashing into the rocks of reality.</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>New York can indeed be an opportunity to make dreams come true, unshackle the burdens of the past, and create limitless freedom of the present.</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>When exhilarating joy becomes soothing stillness, it can turn into inspiriting happiness after splintering the brilliance of its buoyancy and filling each pore of our being with bliss, freeing all the caged wishes of our dreams.</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>This city can offer us a lovely bouquet of joy, stillness, and happiness.</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>New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. Frank Sinatra recognized the magic of its power and its radiating charm, and murmurs: "if I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere. »</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"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon</em></strong><em>: New York .</em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </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; 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:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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"> Woman with apple</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"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

New York at arm's length of desire
<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>No monsters hide at this point, 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 100) x x</strong></em></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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If our feelings clash with our perceptions, and we cannot breathe anymore, below the leaden sky of a harsh reality, we have to kill the dormant virus of lassitude, punch the air and propel us on a new course, taking back a genuine interest in the world, and create an open space to overcome the impairment of emotional thinking.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">We are all in favor of emotional intelligence. Intelligence can take emotion as a privileged counseling partner. However, it does not allow emotion to take possession of us, besiege our minds, and subjugate our thinking. Emotion must regulate our thoughts, not manipulate nor substitute them. Our perception is only a biased picture of reality, and emotions are individual or provisional. Therefore, critical thinking and emotional thinking must go hand in hand.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The stranded, walking a fine line between reality and illusion, are constantly weaving through disappointment and hope. They never stop dreaming of empathy and good feeling and crave attention and endorsement.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">We should not look away when people feel entrenched in their emotional ghetto. We must not leave them smothering in their loneliness but give them solidarity.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">People living with Aids are no monsters we must avoid. They should not hide and need no pity either. They only deserve friendship and understanding.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If they stand in front of a point of no return, reaching the ultimate phase of the fatal disease and confronting the utter existential gate, people should not look away but give sympathy and compassion.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">At this point, hide no monsters.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The stranded, walking a fine line between reality and illusion, are constantly weaving through disappointment and hope. They never stop dreaming of empathy and good feeling and crave attention and endorsement.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">We should not look away when people feel entrenched in their emotional ghetto. We must not leave them smothering in their loneliness but give them solidarity.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">People living with Aids are no monsters we must avoid. They should not hide and need no pity either. They only deserve friendship and understanding.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If they stand in front of a point of no return, reaching the ultimate phase of the fatal disease and confronting the utter existential gate, people should not look away but give sympathy and compassion.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">At this point, hide no monsters.</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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> Phenomenon: Aids</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </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: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point: Two person, red point, red ribbon</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

No monster hide at this point
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p><em><strong>" Sweet smell of Submission", by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 100cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> There seems to be a contradictory pattern in female behavior. Many women are strong defendants of emancipation and equality and some men are helping them in their cause.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Some </strong></em><a title="Women" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>women</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> however seem to show an agreeable acceptance of submission. Some say that if you take away suffering from them, you take away the one thing where they can be really grandiose, noble, magnanimous. </strong></em><a title="Florence Nightingale" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Florence Nightingale</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> could be a lighting example.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In their relationship some women like to develop a secret self-destructive dependence on being needed. They invest obsessively in benevolent care and total devotedness to people who are physically or mentally unstable. The only thing they need is to feel needed, to be indispensable. Appropriate cases for them are men who never grew up and remain mentally little boys and addicted or socially deviant characters.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In order to be able to fulfil this self-imposed and addictive task they are prepared to submit to any random act. They can then enjoy the sweet smell of total submission.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Submission and emancipation</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Submitting girl</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

Sweet smell of Submission
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><em style="font-size: 12.16px;"><strong>"Voices of the sea" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie" style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em style="font-size: 12.16px;"><strong>, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm x x</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><em style="font-size: 12.16px;"><strong><br /></strong></em></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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, with the voices of the sea shielding us from the raging furies and the shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, create an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an alien world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The voices of the sea convey fleeting sounds of the infinite elements of an ethereal world. The rhythmical heartbeat of the fluid substance and the mystical scenery ooze the pulse of a surreal environment: 'Panta Rei.' As we sense the whispering vibrations of the sea and hover on the waves of the present, we realize that each moment flows into an unknown destination. Everything melts down into a new mystery since 'now' will never come back, and 'tomorrow' is unknown territory.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">When we sometimes feel devastated by the deafening noise of the daily commotion, the voices of the sea may help us to elope into a haven of new dimensions. Through our third ear, we can hear inspirational sounds in the symphony of our expectations while discovering uncharted alleys in the chaos of our minds.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If we give way to the desire to look above and beyond the limit of the horizon, we can perceive a fabulous range of unsuspected privileges unfolding in front of our eyes. Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The magic of the present moment that is warily stored in the granary of our memory may pop up at any time and usher us along the winding paths of our life and light up the dead points in the dim curves of our journey.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Dreaming is adding vibrant color to the shriveled landscape of our reality. Since we are not always in a position to decamp or lay claim to the future, it can tread lightly in the twinkling meanders of our minds and bring relief and mental freedom.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> </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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon: Sea, permanent change</span></em></strong></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; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point of the picture: Woman, sea, sailboats</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: red; letter-spacing: .75pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

Voices of the sea
<p> </p> <p><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p> <p><em style="font-family: "><strong>"What after bowling alone?" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie" style="font-family: "><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em style="font-family: "><strong>,(100 x100cm), Oil on canvas x x</strong></em></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p> <p><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">If we only live through the eyes of others and don't try to capture the vibration of our individual experience, we may miss out on the beam and brilliance of authenticity that is essential to move forward in life.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Great potential for emotional balance and mental flexibility can help us fight the bleakness and sterility of a statistical matrix that clashes with the needs of our inner compass.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Reality may not always be a happy companion. If we learn to trust ourselves and fully put through our paces, we can discover a winner's soul ignoring itself, passing with flying colors. The future can be an open space with a range of surprises.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Some cry out against the majority's despotism that knocks them off their feet and hacks into their fundamental values. Since the unbearable intrusion on their lifestyle's quality frightens them, they are obsessed with losing their integrity through the backlash of an overpowering "democratorship."</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">A reconciliation between freethinking and mediation is essential because mere resentment can be an evil counselor.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Conspiracy adepts love storytellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people craving a meaningful decoding and breathtaking clarification.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Self-confidence is vital, but sociologists and politicians can be paramount for people's mental, social, and material well-being.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Social scientists analyzing human society's development can proceed clinically or, conversely, with total social commitment. American sociologist Robert Putnam was undoubtedly an inspiration for the picture "What after bowling alone?" Financial capital has always been a priority in our communities, and a dynamic process of social integration has been neglected.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">By emphasizing the decline of "social capital" in our society and pointing out the dangers of specific social measures with negative consequences on mental well-being, sociologists can take politicians on the road to improving a social system.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">But the actors in the political arenas need to hear better or look in the right direction. Politicians can be tantalizing storytellers. They mix facts with fiction, grab our emotions, and tell things they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own, and in the end, become the very truth… until the bubbles burst.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Critical sociologists raise questions: do we have a government of the people, by the people, for the people? Do politicians have a short-term vision or a long-term vision? Do they keep in mind the social identity of their constituents? Do they think of the mental well-being and the individuals' culture, or are only the next elections imperative?</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are amply dispatched over the heads of the grassroots generations who do not recognize the writing on the wall, remaining ignorant like dumb puppets on a string.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">We must not look past the maneuvers of politicians who feel driven by intuition fed by visionary hysteria. They pretend to have a 'privileged' mission to shoulder but rob people's physical or mental property, appropriating their cultural heritage. If their intuition is cautioned as vicious or murderous by reason or facts, history will forever eradicate their soul from the holy grail of humanity, especially those who want to set the world on fire for their sole ambition.</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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon: Sociological and political reflections</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point: Bowling cones with woman</span></em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><em><strong>Que faire après avoir joué aux boules?</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Le sociologue américain Robert Putnam a certainement été une source d'inspiration pour cette peinture: le déclin du capital social dans nos sociétés. Nous avons été témoins de ce fait depuis des décennies. Le capital financier semble avoir été une priorité dans nos communautés. L'intégration sociale semble avoir été laissé mal à part.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Wat doen we na de bowling?</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>De Amerikaanse socioloog Robert Putnam is zeker een inspiratie voor dit schilderij: de afname van sociaal kapitaal in de samenleving. We hebben dit al decennia lang gezien. Financieel kapitaal lijkt een prioriteit te zijn geweest in onze gemeenschappen. Sociale integratie lijkt slecht bedeeld te zijn.</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

What after bowling alone
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Paper boats for ever" (100 x100 cm) Oil on canvas </strong><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust" title="Marcel Proust"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Marcel Proust</strong></span></span></a><strong> - </strong><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane" title="Citizen Kane"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Citizen Kane</strong></span></span></a><strong> - </strong><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beatles" title="Beatles"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Beatles</strong></span></span></a><strong> ' , 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></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>"Paper boats forever" represents a young lady lying back, dreaming away with paper boats in her mind. Artists are good watchers of our society. They point out that some details in one's life can be highly significant for one's further existence.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Those details, which might look insignificant, can appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of French author, Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and pure joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Cherishing the sweet reminiscence of the early hours of life can be experienced as real enchantment: Those hours when fantasy is given wings and imagination allows us to sail with our paper boats through the stern roads of our constricted life.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> Phenomenon: Memory lane</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Girl leaning back .</strong></em></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>

A paper boat made my dream
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"C’est quand le bonheur ?" - "It's for when, happiness?" (100 x 80 cm) , 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></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>Happiness is finding peace with ourselves and ensuring a sound haven for our dreams, and, at the same time, acknowledging our nothingness in front of nature's splendor.</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>People wonder whether Happiness is a blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity. If we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness or a no-mans-land of emotions, it won't be easy to recognize its very nature.</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 their obstinate quest, many forget to take pleasure in the small things of every day and become disgruntled and depressed instead, leading to a mire of gloom. Through social pressure, some cannot help faking Happiness, thinking it is a social duty to be happy, and sadness is socially unacceptable.</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>Others feel lucky if they haven't got to be happy. As they don't like to unravel their frame of mind, they prefer to be left well enough alone.</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>Still, others may be happy but are, oddly enough, not aware of it. They only sense the vibrations of Happiness and its feel of harmony, in hindsight. As they realize they have not learned to be kind and patient to themselves and capable of enjoying the privileged but simple twinklings of daily life, they blame themselves for not finding the threshold of wellbeing.</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 his "Soldier's Tale," Igor Stravinsky gives us his intriguing, paradoxical explanation: "Happiness that 'was not' and that "is not any longer." "Happiness is Happiness. We must learn to appreciate what life gives us and enjoy every little happy moment."</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>For Happiness, we need to invest in time, energy, and creativity. Still and all, Happiness is not a sin, so let us spread our wings and prepare to be lucky.</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"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon:</em></strong><em>Happiness</em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"> </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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point of the picture:</span></em></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"> Girl looking forward to an eventuality, waiting for happiness to come.</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

C'est quand le bonheur?
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><strong><em>"Finally things had lost their weightiness" by </em></strong><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><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 80 cm</em></strong></p> <p> </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 colorful balloons of our little daily issues are philosophical contradictions of lightness and weightiness.</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>Sometimes, we must let loose in life rather than indulging intractably in self-harm or self-mistreatment as we pursue impervious dreams.</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>Weightiness can be the incarnation of a sense of responsibility. Responsibility can be very versatile, and we can interpret it in many different ways. Everybody seems to have a different kind of reading of accountability. When the flood is submerging the entire country, no raindrop may feel responsible. However, the real responsible will do whatever it takes to hold each droplet accountable when the stormwater inundates the fences of our living.</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>Weightiness can be a demonstration of wisdom. It can be the outcome of an insightful reflection and the emanation of a quest for a sense of life. Gravity may mean coercion when we experience it as trouble or a terrible nuisance. Let us loosen, then, the balloons.</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>To safeguard our mindset's lightness, we must ensure that some don't hinder us from breaking free from contrived mental bondage.</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>Foresight and clarity must always be our brothers-at-arms. Nebulous words covering a broad spectrum of intriguing maneuverings allow many lobbyists to impersonate innocuous "strategic analysts" and masquerade as benefactors of the people.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Some use perverting "ambiguity" as their native language and prefer to hide behind a veil of para-social intrigue or deceit. They readily apply a strategy of a condescendingly friendly approach. Still, as we can capture arresting signals that urge us to defuse a dire threat of besiegement, we can decipher any shrouded or manipulative intentions and steer clear of unforeseen pitfalls.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></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>We cannot always be suspicious and must be ready to let go of knotty and prickly issues in time. One must be prepared to get the monkey off the back soon enough and let things loose when things get stuffy.</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>Lightness and gravity are essential options and remain part of our philosophy of life.</strong></em></span></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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> </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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon:</span></em></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"> </span></em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Lightness and weightiness of life</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><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></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> : </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Balloons" title="Balloons"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #0645ad; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">balloons</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> being released</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

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