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I just try to think of celebrations that suprise people, that people have fun with, and that people enjoy..
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
Ritual of Personal Reflection.
a Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes. I've
Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable.
the ordeal for more than two or three
Each moment presents what happens.
Compared to relationships, events and programs make me think of ice skates gliding across ice. Relationships make me think of gum on the bottom of a shoe on a hot day.
Procedures. Like "incident," this is another word that covers a broad range of unpleasant things.
activities, especially considering the occupation of
All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
An "event" is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us as something unaccountable, something that we cannot quite get our minds around even as we recognize the great importance of the encounter. Badiou identifies
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.
Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time
Sometimes you live life searching for moments to remember. Then there are moments you'd rather forget
A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.
Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.
Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.
Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.
what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.
When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.
Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.
performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.
Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.
Daily life, the sacred time of a man.
There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.
In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.
Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
In the life of a child of the elite, there are many moments ripe for a grand celebration. There are birth and the inevitable death.In between,various stages of consciousness define the nature and scale of celebration.
There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
These are trivial details, but they relate to happy times.
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
Maximizing your favorable occasions is opening your favorable doors to growth and comfort.
Everyday, there are many unremarkable encounters but...
Later on, there will be an encounter big enough to change your life.
That's why, I want to treasure each one of those.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.
Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
There are moments.
You will know them.
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Timely
Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
The day wasn't exactly my own
since I checked
and found it on a public calendar.
Tripping over many pairs of legs
as I walked down the park
I also learned my lust
was not so rare a masterpiece.
an occasional birthday dinner, and of course Marathon
Some things one doesn't want to remember.
When you give life to an idea it becomes an event.
Contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us,
I can't tell you how many times you've given my life meaning because the occasions have been too numerous.
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.
You don't plan to read or to have a beer with lunch. Those are things you do when you have a moment between planned events. Those are incidentals.
it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world,
Dates were like deep friendships filmed in timelapse, one-night stands were like express-courtships from courtship to dissolution... When I'd entered my last relationship at twenty, we'd all been new and shiny. Now I was meeting people who had... stories.
the public entertainment of any period distinguishing the period as clearly as its so-called politics,
Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but ...
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
getting married. I was invited to countless bridal
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.
Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?
The times we worked harder to make the day stand out.
our story demanded that we change and so we did.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
It got to be an American custom, like talk shows, Face the Nation, marriage counseling, marathon encounters, or zoning hearings.
'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
What are you planning?" I asked, as we turned toward the grand ballroom.
"Just a small demonstration for the public good," he said. "I am so sorry."
"You're apologizing in advance."
"Yes."
Never a good sign.
Moments give birth to new memories
There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person's life.
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
These moments of immersion, of engagement, of clear focus - moments that can last for hours, occasionally days - are some of the best times of our lives.
Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.
Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual.
'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
Moments of solitude, rest for the soul.
What a day-to-day affair life is.
There are moments in your life that stand out above all the rest - moments of pure bliss, pure anger, pure sorrow. Moments that take your breath away.
Everyday experiences, like the weather, or an acute injury, simply WERE
I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Planning a few anchor events for a weekend guarantees you pleasure because - even if all goes wrong in the moment - you still will have derived some pleasure from the anticipation.
Excellence is not an event but a habit.
Celebrating a festival called life.
Moments are precious in life; they transform time into timeless dreams.
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
Making memories matters
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
One invited artists to social events, but only for the pleasure of their company. To invite singers or dancers to perform for their supper was inexpressively vulgar, and deserved a prompt and stinging rebuke.