These notes stem from Jonathan Raban's 'Coasting' and Julian Temple's forthcoming 'The Future is Unwritten' about Joe Strummer.
'Coasting' first made me reflect on what are the essentials of life as Raban sailed around the coast of Britain in a pretty basic vessel, focusing the mind on those essentials.
There's a theme of campfires in the Strummer film I saw last night - communal fire as the hub of happiness and music.
AIR
WATER
FOOD
SLEEP
Dark
Light
LIGHT
WARMTH
Fire
Shelter
Clothing
Waste
Hygiene
SEX - Reproduction
Company
Community
LOVE - as child
LOVE - as parent
Milk Love
Honey Love (love of life) [Erich Fromm]
Individual
Family
Kind
Learning/Education
Survival
Growth
Control?
Environment
Work
ART
Creativity
Self-expression
Justice
[This is a work in progress ]
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freedom from the need to feel free
death - frankl (in doctor and the soul) - 'those who fear death and those who have guilt about their life'
to create what you can only imagine
and for me:
Solitude
An increasing desire for love
To remain impatient for success
I guess Jonathan Swift for one would agree with you about Death being a fundamental of life. Living forever is no party if I remember Gulliver's Travels correctly.
A typo - Frankl - 'those who fear death are those who have guilt about their life'.
I increasingly feel that everything I do in life is dictated by my fear of getting to the point of death and thinking that I did not do half as much as I could have done or enjoyed half as much as I should have done.
That's a pretty healthy fear - provided you act on it
Well I must confess that I this healthy fear is sometimes overtaken by my intrinsic laziness. But I get there in the end. For example I should now be working hard on my presentation in Cologne (new client - United Nations Framwork Convention on Climate Change) next week but I am filling up my itunes and reading blogs instead.
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