2010樂活日誌 – 全部售罄

2009年的某一天, 一個閃過腦際的意念,一位在某個綠色活動結識的朋友,再加上另一位當時身在地球另一角落鑽研”可持續設計”的設計師, 這本中式日曆便開始有機地發芽,生長;每天一頁一頁地向前移動,演化,成形.

這是甚麼一回事?

一天一個綠化人生的小點子, 一人綠一點,就是這麼簡單, 也何其不簡單…

我們是何許人?

幾個平常人以平常心(也頗用心)去打造,串連, 但求與人分享各種大小發現和用得著的小點子.

是的,一切都可以在一天之內發生;

有時候,一天之內卻看似甚麼都沒有發生.就像這個日曆, 哪一天是好日子,”宜”甚麼,”忌”甚麼,全憑你怎麼去打造出來.

在”樂活”這個名詞老化或”潮語化”之前,至少我們可以給它一個”活化”一下.

在天變,地變,人變,事變的虛擬化存在中,

依然相信活著可以”樂活”的,又或是開始尋找樂活的人,

 

此時此刻,日曆經已全部售罄. 謝謝各位支持!

 

One Day -Matisyahu

One day, I was caught by the magic of Matisyahu’s latest album “Light” featuring “One Day” – a song that I never get tired of playing and playing more than 20 times within one day.

Another magical thing about this piece is, it somehow led and moved me to reconcile with someone special in my life, not just because of its “fight no more” message, but mostly because of the serenity it fills my heart with – to the point that it simply couldn’t hold any grudge to anyone at all…..

Hard to believe, and hard to slot that sensation. Nor the nature of his music, though it first came across as reggae…religious…

And for sure, he has nothing to do with “Matisse” or “Yahoo” either.

Here is to “One Day”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h55P7F8rW8A&feature=related

沒有季節的廢墟

某一個真實的時刻,你會認同環保是多麼叫人吶悶的一個話題,因為它象徵一個浪漫已失的年代 :

鳥語花香不再,每天走在灰茫茫的天底下,乘坐渡輛漂過黑沉沉的海,天氣報告總是說”今天沒天氣….”

那期待出現的未來,可能已成過去.又或者正在熱切期待我們有一天走向它….

某一個最真實的時刻,你會十分認同FAITHLESS 在以下歌中描繪的情景與氛圍, 尤其是開場一段節錄自”Mefistofele”的詠嘆調”L’altra notte in fondo al mare”  (The Other Night at the Bottom of the Ocean) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJbTlgXTCWw&feature=related

意猶未盡的話,可以回味Renata Tebaldi的經典演繹:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAAg5nFrZkU&feature=related

意大利原文的歌詞譯成英文是這樣的:

The other night at the bottom of the ocean, my little boy was lying
or in order to drive me mad, they told me he has drowned.
Dawn is fresh, the cell gloomy,
and my spirits, such a sparrow in the woods,
flies, flies, flies away.
Ah! Pity me!
Into a lethargic sleep 
I lulled my mother, 
and, crowning horror, they say
that I poisoned her. 
Dawn is fresh,
the cell gloomy…

Inconvenience Store

–This could be fun, if you have the time to try it for 60 days.

–Why 60 days?

–It takes 60 days in average to develop a habit, like smoking second-hand…

–That long? I thought only 60 seconds will do.

–Well, we are talking about a real habit that you can’t easily kick.

–And so, what do I do now?

–And so, what we’ve got here is a store for you to drop in every day, and get something in the most incovenient way.

–For instance?

–Pardon me, we prefer “For no instance” here…..Right…Start with buying a banana that’s totally green, take it home and wait until it’s ripe before savouring it. Once the patience builds up, move on to buying the seeds of a rose, sow it into the pot, watch it grow, blossom and wither. Meanwhile, practice deep breathing…”

–And you call that fun?

–Yes, the fun of drawing the fine line between self-torture and nirvana…and don’t forget to wear a watch.

–That sucks.

–Like living…..

Until all is Undone

Looking for a green shop? a green car? a green concert? a green airline? a green government?  a green mascara? last but not least – a pair of green glasses?

May I suggest that there’s really none until all is undone.   The ultimate green zone is the zone of  “none”, and for that matter, a label invariably ”numb”, since existence has always been verified by the opposite: having “some”, or “fun” to say the least.

Which brings forth the fundamental question of why exist?  The frontal cortex knows better…

 The ultimate packaging experience is to unpack. The utlimate learning experience is to unlearn.  The ultimate way to living green is “non- living”, really…

Unrealistic and  pessimistic, if not, boring and banal? Yes, and yet we all know there’s really not much more room left for fooling ourselves with mere media drives and endless roundtable talks around the rosy future. The last thing we need is another government or giant corporation merely  ”branded” green.

I’m not suggesting us to cease making a living, making love or making babies – the basic activities that keep all species alive.

I am however exploring the possibility of “doing something by not doing anything”; “doing more by doing less”, which is not unfamiliar to a certain school of philosophers or “living artists”.  Having a foresight of it by observing how species like penguins live,  I, for one, have at least gathered a bit more hope that living is really not about “doing”.

Before bowing out,  I would glady say: “BEEN THERE, UNDONE THAT!

Dances of Wolves

Did you ever wonder whether wolves have soul?

With or without, there is beauty, sensuality, cruelty, immortality in this piece by Loreena McKennit (Mummer’s Dance) x Wolverines.

I could watch it over and over and over again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8C8AVWLhwI&feature=related

Award for Bullshitters

Finally an award dedicated to quintessential bullshitters about the environment – by who else but the brilliant George Monbiot? Check out his mind-blowing blog that always gives me a kick:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/feb/04/christopher-booker-george-monbiot-prize

That’s no bull-shit, man and ma’am!

不可持續的”可持續”

有一天你可能會發覺,即使是”可持續”這個名詞也出現身份危機;除了淪為像”樂活”一般乏力的幌子,亦持續被套用於形形式式的建制,主義,以至產品;諸如”可持續婚姻”,”可持續流感”,”可持續債券”, “可持續主題公園”, “可持續茶餐”…

既然如此,我們亦無須堅持或繼續執著它的定義, 免得承受某種可持續包袱”

這…也不過是個小小的”可持續感想”…

Revisiting Ralph

His birthday was May 25, 1803, and after re-reading his works lately, I couldn’t help celebrating his birth while missing the presence of such transcendental mind. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American (probably one of the greatest ever in thinking) had such great “soundbites” about nature (taken from his masterpiece “Nature”):

“Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.”

He is one classic icon you couldn’t miss! Check out his works at:

http://www.rwe.org

Cliché of Green

Having hopped on this Green bandwagon, I also caution myself from falling into the ultimate pitfall of the “Green Gospel” , which could be easily likened to that of the “Church Gospel”: the proclamation and institutionalization will bring about an unprecedented proliferation at the expense of  internal transformation and  faithful practice.

It could be everywhere, but getting nowhere!

As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it: “The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of the soul.
The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
…He cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit.”

Heavy  stuff that takes some diving…. but perhaps that’s the very core spirit of being green. We were poking fun and making waves with the made-in-heaven party-theme, while all along speeding in full-steam towards hell.

Wonder where the “power of now” comes in….