occupation

I was sitting in my office fully occupied suddenly I saw these words of K:
Why is the mind occupied? Why does the mind seek occupation? I am not talking of the daily occupation of business and all the rest of it but of this psychological occupation of the mind - which has relation to our daily life. Because whether we are occupied with God, with truth, with love, with sex, or with the affairs of the kitchen or of the nation, all occupations a re the same;

thank God

"Thank God men cannot fly,
and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
-- Henry David Thoreau

(I chose the above words and pic from http://womanity.blogspot.com/ )

Dancer in the dark

Tonight I saw "Dancer in the dark" and the movie was smart and elegant. I like too much the song "I have seen it all". The above pics are the scene when Bjork sings this song. Here is the lyrics:
I've seen it all,

I have seen the trees,

I've seen the willow leaves dancing

in the breeze

I've seen a man killed by his best friend,

And lives that were over before they were spent.

I've seen what I was -

I know what I'll be

I've seen it all - there is no more to see!

You haven't seen elephants, kings or Peru!

I'm happy to say I had better to do

What about China?

Have you seen the Great Wall?

All walls are great, if the roof doesn't fall!

And the man you will marry?

The home you will share?

To be honest, I really don't care...

You've never been to Niagara Falls?

I have seen water, its water, that's all...

The Eiffel Tower,

the Empire State?

My pulse was as high on my very first date!

Your grandson's hand as he plays with your hair?

To be honest, I really don't care...

I've seen it all,

I've seen the dark

I've seen the brightness in one little spark.

I've seen what I choose and I've seen what I need,

And that is enough, to want more would be greed.

I've seen what I was and I know what I'll beI've seen it all - there is no more to see!

You've seen it all and all you have seen

You can always review on your own little screen

The light and the dark, the big and the small

Just keep in mind - you need no more at all

You've seen what you were and know what you'll be

You've seen it all - there is no more to see!

UP

The movie "UP" was a wonderful animation. I put some pic of it here. Carl and Ellie have a very happy life but they have also their own dreams. The pic in the bottle in above pic is the pic of a place which they dream to go and they try to save some money to go there. They can never save enough to go. On the left pic above Carl is sad of his loosing time and not providing Elliej's dream to be happened. The relationship between them in the early beginning of the film is very good narrated and sounds very sad to me and made me to cry. I think it is an original one. I rewrote the back-cover description of the film below:

"By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip."

meaning of genius

The last scene of "Whatever works" seems very nice to me: (the director is Woody Alen)
Boris, what are you doing?Who you talking to?
What? There's people out there watching us.
-They're out there?-Yeah, yeah, they're watching. What?
-Please, Boris...-You know...
Well, there was when we started.I don't know how many are left.
Does anybody see anybody out there?
-Out there? No!-No!
-Boris!-No!
See? I'm the only onewho sees the whole picture.
That's what they mean by genius.

Nobel prize in Obama's hand

I must admit that Obama is very similar to Dr Martin Luter King. This part of his speech at Noble cermony sounds to me very perfect:

"As Dr. King said at this occasion so many years ago, "I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the 'isness' of man's present condition makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal 'oughtness' that
forever confronts him." Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."

and also this section:

"Somewhere today, in the here and now, in the world as it is, a soldier sees he's
outgunned, but stands firm to keep the peace. Somewhere today, in this world, a young
protestor awaits the brutality of her government, but has the courage to march on.
Somewhere today, a mother facing punishing poverty still takes the time to teach her
child, scrapes together what few coins she has to send that child to school -- because she
believes that a cruel world still has a place for that child's dreams."

When talking about that young protester he was thinking about Iran.

turning point

Tonight I want to write of ordinary things of life. And my own word. Not referring to memory and other's words. First of all I am still alive! interested to be effective to my surroundings and be happy and make the others happy too. I am living in Tehran. A pigeon is singing outside. It is not night now. It changes to early in the morning. Darkness disappeared and daylight comes. The weather is a little cold. 2 degree C. We are entering into winter. Half a month later is the beginning of winter.
Time is passing slowly due my measuring scale and fast due to reality. I can breath without ache. The earth is revolving. People are all around busy with small things. Life is going on. Sometimes I try to read and write Shahnameh of Ferdosi and after a while I put it aside (Shahnameh is a poem book of a great Iranian man whose name is Ferdosi. It is an Epic book). Then I forget it and go to read Descart. Again I change my mind and go to read others book. Meanwhile I am living a mediocre life. A small house. A job, ordinary one. I am not the president of America! I have lived 52 years and every day I expect would be another day of discovery. The days are passing by with no discovery. Last week I was watching a BBC documentary about the Last Theorem of Fermat.
Fermat wrote at the margin of a book a note which was too small the proof to be put.
It was very beautiful. Mr. Wiles solved the problem after 300 years. Without using computer. A math professor at Princeton university. He says "It was always there and I did not look at it, It took 7 years I turn my face and look at it ( this is my impression of the film and not the exact words said in the film)." and now I think too that there exist the answer of all questions nearby and we do not turn our face to look at it.

Today is Friday. Saturday and Sunday are also holiday. Sunday is Ghadir festival. Saturday is a day between two holiday (Friday and Sunday) and became holiday too. So I have 3 days off.