The Andis Kaulins Anti-Blog

Monday, October 2, 2023

October 3rd Views from Casa Kaulins

I plan to do nothing

And the way I’ve been recently, I’ll probably do way less than that!

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Saturday, September 30, 2023

World! Thank Me Very Much!

Some people can be so annoying that you have to escape their presence. Perhaps, I am like them.

That’s why World you should be thanking me. For I’m keeping to myself these days and this life.

Substacking

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Friday, September 29, 2023

What’s the matter?

https://youtube.com/shorts/VoNGzD4pCFg?si=0b3Kp4gk0SaSZSYL

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Dessert Desert

Is it better to be in a desert dessert or by strength of will, desert dessert?

To do or Todo?

What’s the big todo or what’s there to do?

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

A Commitment to Being Boring

Next holiday, I’m going to be boring — not bored — but boring.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Old Age by Edmund Waller

Walking up the stairs of my two floor apartment in Jiangyin, China, I feel old. Here’s a poem about old age that comforts me. Especially the last line.

Old Age by Edmund Waller

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more.
For then we know how vain it was to boast
Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes
Conceal that emptiness which age descries.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made:
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

A Comforting Thought from José María Escrivá

Todos los pecados de tu vida parece como si se pusieran de pie. —No desconfíes. —Por el contrario, llama a tu Madre Santa María, con fe y abandono de niño. Ella traerá el sosiego a tu alma.

All the sins of your life seem to rise up against you. Don't lose confidence. Rather, call on your holy Mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.

Nothing I can add to that.

Two More Thoughts from NGD

—El hombre les debe con frecuencia a sus defectos los fracasos que evita.

—Man frequently owes to his defects the failures he avoids.

I take this to mean we can avoid a lot of trouble by being imperfect. And that earthly talent can often leads us to places where the devil hangs out.

—Lo que nos enclaustra nos ofrece la posibilidad de ennoblecernos.
Aun cuando sea un simple aguacero.
—What cloisters us gives us the chance to ennoble ourselves.

Even when it is a simple rain shower.

Sometimes I have this agonizing feeling that I come across as an irredeemable phony to others and so cloistered is what I should be.