My Science - Blog / Mein Naturwissenschaftsblog
A Non-Fiction Blog. Ein Sachblog. A collection of some bits of information extracted from the scientific and from the non-fiction literature. (Until June 2025 there were also some poems and aphorisms posted on this blog.) Sachthemen und Sachtexte. (Bis Ende Juni 2025 wurden hier auch regelmäßig Gedichte und Aphorismen zu beliebigen Themen veröffentlicht.)
Sonntag, 23. August 2026
Wiederbegegnungen:
Sicherlich bräuchte das hier eine etwas nüchterne Beschreibung. Interessant ist aber der Umstand, dass man da manchen Personen sehr lange, bis zu zwei Jahrzehnte lang, nicht mehr begegnete. Und dass man eben solchen Personen nun gerade in kurzer Zeit wiederholt über den Weg läuft, löst zumindest ein bestimmtes Maß an Verwunderung aus.
Naturkundliche Museen:
Nehme mir Zeit zum Lesen und um die Tiere zu betrachten.
Das hat schon auch so einen meditativen Charakter.
Begegnungen / Encounters:
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One can encounter the most perfect and complete imaginable things right in the midst of this world.
Perfect phenomena, perfect scenes, perfect ...
Religious people might interpret this as the presence of God.
Non-religious people can at least recognize or experience that certain scenes or phenomena possess something extraordinary — a strange fascination, a kind of magic or enchantment.
“This scene, this phenomenon, penetrates deeply into my memory and leaves traces.”
(“Individual moments can possess a peculiar kind of perfection without everything having to be objectively ‘perfect.’ An encounter, a certain light, a conversation, a landscape, a gesture — and suddenly something feels so profoundly right that the moment seems to fall out of the ordinary flow of time.”
— in a certain sense, a kind of coherence or rightness that is difficult to put into words.
“‘This scene … penetrates deeply into my memory and leaves traces.’ That is often precisely how we recognize that a moment was extraordinary. Not because it was spectacular, but because even years later it still possesses an unusual density. We remember a look, the atmosphere, sounds, perhaps even a particular bodily sensation. Such scenes almost become inner points of reference.”)