michael lambe

A GOOD PLACE
Yesterday HJ introduced me to a GOOD PLACE. I’m talking about a place that emanates GOODNESS and that is filled with GOOD THINGS. I came away from this place with a sense of hope and enormous well-being. The place is the house of Kawai Kanjiro, a leading 20th century potter who was also a writer and sculptor and it’s spookily close to where I work. If you click on the pictures below you can get a better look at his works (and there is some information about them too).

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There’s further information on Kawai Kanjiro here: GOODNESS.

LIVE PAINTING
Later that evening we proceeded to Gojo Guest House Cafe for Yui Katou’s Live Painting Event, some highlights of which you can see below. The fellow getting all avant-garde with the flute is Yui’s dad.

CLUSTER
In the news today I read that 46 nations of the world have agreed to push for a global ban on cluster bombs. America, Russia and China however are still resisting because they value military strength over human rights. Here’s why cluster bombs should be banned:

A GINGER. NOT A WHINGER.
Former teenage dope-fiend Harry Windsor, (previously famous mostly for not looking much like his Dad) is off to Iraq. I have mixed feelings about Ginger Windsor going to Iraq. On the one hand I’m inclined to think: “Good! Now send the rest of them over there too!” On the other hand it’s a wonderful propaganda tool for the establishment, promoting all those old irrational beliefs in duty and service and the glory of a righteous war etc. You know, all those fine ideals that get good people killed or maimed every day, when they could be working and raising families and living for their country instead of dying for it. There’s a line in Brecht’s Galileo, Galileo has recanted his theories under pressure from the Inquisition, and his pupil laments:
“Pity the country that has no hero.” Galileo replies: “Pity the country that needs a hero.”

Clever that.