Weak Ties in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 23 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 23: Weak Ties

Being read plenty of articles from sociology, one of my favorite sociologists is Mark Granovetter. While we all need strong ties in our life: our friends and family, as much we also need weaker ties: more distant or casual ones. As quoted by Granovetter: ‘Your weak ties connect you to networks that are outside of your own circle. They give you information and ideas that you otherwise would not have gotten.’ Weaker ties help us enable interaction and exchange information. Weak ties are people who are from different social circles and they can provide us novel information. A society is held together by both strong and weak ties. I also like the intermediate links. Like how a friend of a friend at times becomes closer to us than the friend themselves.

By Sadi Carnot at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1631309

Poem:
While we walk
Our life walk
There are secrets we share
With strangers
There are secrets we hide
With loved ones
With every kind
We balance our ties.

There are things we connect with people about. On a random day, we might fall in love with strange thoughts. We never know where our comfort points are. Life is to be explored and we got to do that to the fullest.

Vorfreude in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 22 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 22: Vorfreude

Vorfreude is a German word and it took me a while to get its pronunciation right even after going through audios. The word has no exact English equivalent. Vor is before and Freude is joy. It’s the word that describes the joyful anticipation. It is that feeling which comes before experiencing something delightful and pleasure. It’s a joyful and intense anticipation from imagining future pleasures. All those exciting things that we wish to do, all our plans, all those happy moments that we imagine, everything is Vorfreude. Those few days that you wait for your trip to begin and all those things that your mind has already planned and visualized to do, that is a Vorfreude. Isn’t that a beautiful word? Isn’t that making our world beautiful?

The hiker’s anticipation: the nearby waterfall announces itself with its veil of water vapor. Von Hedwig Storch – Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11013068

Poem:
And as randomly as it can get
At a random moment
We dream of
All those could have been,
Should have been,
Will be.
And smile, thank
For this beautiful life.

At one side is the joyful anticipation when we know that is about to happen. At other side are those imaginations that we have, that we know is not going to happen. And still, it gives us an undefined amount of pleasure. This one is to all those that keep us happy!

U Theory in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 21 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 21: U Theory

U theory is by Otto Scharmer from MIT, which talks about change management. The core of the theory is about presence and sensing and is a journey of five moments. The shape of U signifies moving downside, the bottom and going up the other side and each of the journeys connects with world outside our institutional thoughts, world that emerges within and bringing new into the world respectively. The journey talks about letting go of what is not essential and letting come of future essentials. Imagine your current self and future best-self, meeting at the bottom and talking to each other. The journey compromises of being in open will, open heart and open mind. Theory U is about transformation and operating from the whole with a blend of thinking, innovation and leading change.

Image Reference: By Presencing Institute, Otto Scharmer  www.presencing.com/principles, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56371728

Poem:
Call it a U, Call it a ME
Every theory
Wants the best
Of within and without.
Whatever is the theory
At the end of the day
Its US
And what that us is to us.

There are souls that never stop. It feels like they are wired differently and nothing really bothers and matters to them. They go on to achieve what they dreamed of. I wonder what’s their theory? Letting go and letting come is our definite part of life.  

Tunnel of Love in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 20 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 20: Tunnel of Love

We always often fall in love with the routes while we travel for several reasons. What if there is a place where the train travels for 5kms and offers a breath taking scene at all the times of the year – shades of green in summer and spring, palettes of red, orange, brown in autumn and snow in winter. The tunnel of love is in Klevan, Ukraine which starts from Klevan and goes till Northern area of Orzhiv. The route has trees lined up as an arch and railway going in the middle – how fairy tale like is that? History says the train was built for military purposes and the trees were planted because of the cold war. It was later used to deliver wood and the train runs even today. I don’t think we can look for anything else that can qualify for a better – tunnel of love. I would recommend exploring more picture of this beauty on internet.

Image Reference: By Dmytro Chapman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40306776

Poem:
If you hold my hand
And walk along
I will hold your hand
And walk along.
Be there
For each other
And every path
Is tunnel of love.

Love can turn everything into wonders. However, there are places like ‘Tunnel of Love’ that add extra love to the moment. Carry a book, music, or whatever you love to a place and it becomes a happy place.

Silent Scream in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 19 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 19: Silent Scream

Of the too many options that I had for S, I decided to go for ‘Silent Scream’. Silent scream is an oxymoron – can a scream be silent? Do they go together? it’s two contradicting words appearing together. It could be the pain that silences us, it can be the fallen tree in forest that no one heard, it can be the scream that has consumed one, it can be a voice against ill and evil, etc.  There are several movies, albums, books with the title Silent Scream, each artist giving their own interpretation. The 1984 anti-abortion film created and narrated by Bernard Nathanson with the title Silent Scream tops the chart in the list. We all scream. The silent ones are the most painful.

I am adding the famous Scream painting. Image Inference: By Edvard Munch – National Gallery of Norway 8 January 2019 (upload date) by Coldcreation, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69541493

Poem:
The seen
Are sold,
In the market
Of abstraction,
As a beauty,
As a masterpiece,
Because the silent screams
Are falling on no ears.

Everybody has had their share of silent screams in their personal or private spaces. Some turn into forms of art and some stay within. Silent screams have their own interpretations and with no voices and hidden words, is an unsolved encrypted masterpiece.  

Retroactive Precognition in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 18 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 18: Retroactive Precognition

It’s an interesting experimental work from Dr. Bern when he has published his research work about knowing the future events. As he quotes, ‘anomalous processes of information or energy transfer that is currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms’. With his experimentation, he has concluded that future events could affect a person’s cognition in the present. Now that is something. Are we all influenced in the present by the future that has not happened yet? Well, precognition is phenomenon of seeing or becoming directly aware of events in the future. However, it is widely considered as pseudoscience as of today and is closely related and studied in relation to the dreams. We have had several movies about precognition as well.

“Joseph’s Dream”, According to the Book of Genesis, God granted Joseph precognition. By Gaetano Gandolfi – Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5802153

Poem:
Those fragments
Of confusions, Illusions
That appear in slits
Could be
Our future
Disappearing
Because of decisions
That we took today.

Does future flash us what we are missing ahead because of decisions that we took today? Is it us being in fear to take the bigger steps? Or a motivation of what could have been us? Everything that ever crosses our mind, does it have a meaning that connects us to the future?

Qualia in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 17 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 17: Qualia

Qualia is a Latin derived word which describes the subjective conscious know-hows. The word tries to understand the nature of consciousness we all have. The feelings and experiences like: having a headache, the redness in color red, running fingers over sandpaper, smelling the sea air etc. all have an experience of a mental state with a distinctive subjective character. Qualia refers to these kind of phenomenal aspects of our mental experiences. The word means ‘of what sort’ or ‘of what kind’ in relation to a specific instance. Like example: what does this specific mango fruit tastes like, if I eat now. Rather than what it is directly like to be experiencing the emphasis is on beliefs about experiences. There is something it is like for each of us to subjectively undergo that experience. I love the philosophical depth that this word brings.

The redness of red is a commonly used example to explain the quale.

Poem:
All those experiences
That we can’t describe
Can’t really express,
That we can only feel
And live,
Is what makes
Our life and living
More than special.

We all have our own defined body smell and possibly there is someone who loves it or is attracted to. I feel what makes human special in social ladder, one of is, the ability that we can feel and express in several ways. Or feel a feeling and have inability to express it. We should have as many in our life time.

Postmodernism in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 16 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 16: Postmodernism

The reason I love sociology theories is that they are not easily understood in one read and each theory has several interpretations. A lot of research goes by for each theory and off-course leading a pathway to several new discoveries and inventions. Postmodernism claims that due to globalization traditional theories of how a society works is no longer adequate to explain the postmodern life. We need a new way of thinking, beliefs, ideas, style of living etc. It questions the grand narratives and elements of the modern life. It is a way of thinking about culture, art, philosophy and everything that is attached to life and living. It says that knowledge is always made or invented and there is no real truth. The theory says that one must not make other believe what they believe in, and that is way of powering over them. The theory denies the existence of all definitive principles and that is enough to encourage one to discover the new truths of life.

AI generated image for the context

Poem:
In the way of living:
If there is one,
Beliefs and opinions,
Thoughts and truths,
Everything will be questioned.
For the search of new,
It is the way of living.
Is it the way of the living?

While we question and move on, we fail to understand and fall back. Will the modern thinkers be even pinch and sprinkle of what we had in classic times? Where are we failing?

Occam’s Razor in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 15 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 15: Occam’s Razor

Keep things as simple as possible – that is the bottom line of Occam’s razor. Credited to William of Ockham, medieval philosopher, the razor refers to removing unnecessary assumptions or cutting apart two similar conclusions. It is a problem solving principle that suggests searching for explanations made with smallest possible set of elements. Our solutions must not be beyond necessity. The principle is popularly quoted as ‘the simplest explanation is usually the best one’. The good starting point of solving the problem is to avoid the unnecessary and keeping it simple. Not just for problem solving, but it is also an important philosophy of life – keeping things around us as simple as possible.

By Ockham – from a manuscipt of Ockham’s Summa Logicae, MS Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 464/571, fol. 69r}, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1088099

Poem
Dear Problem,
Can you get
A little more simpler?
Because,
I don’t know
A solution
Maybe, than to,
Possibly ignore.

Well, a lot of times ignorance works. And let me also say this, it’s not easy to ignore. It’s definitely harder than a not so simple solution. Doing nothing is definitely not easy.

Natural Order in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 14 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 14: Natural Order

There is a natural order and there is man-made order. When man made order imbalances the nature, nature finds its way to balance it. I like the concept that comes from Chinese Taoism – ‘Way of Nature’. The theory says that there can be a good government only when there is a perfect harmony between way of man and way of nature. They both have to balance each other. Talking from philosophical perspective, natural order is the moral source by which nature law seeks to derive its authority from. There is always a way by which perish is balanced by thrive and then the nature seeks the balance. Every loss has a gain and vice versa.  Universe has a natural order and we humans have to abide to it.

Interest in term Natural Order – region-wise web search (from Google Trends, as of April 2024)

Poem:
While the human
Keeps thinking
Makes machines
Builds sky scrapers
Talks advancement
Grabs everything
Nature,
Finds its way.

And while the nature does that, we would still never know. We blame each other, play the blame game and continue to gamble further. Until an apocalypse?