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🙏 to @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo
#DeepTime take on #workinglove

#newpoem / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022-24

#poetry #JohnCage #MechtildOfMagdeburg #AsSlowAsPossible #orgelprojekt #MysticMonday #thework
Fatal Day in Halberstadt 1361 Decameron‘s Twelfth Night. Lollards hitch their prayers, their Plight to the Morning Star. Pestis Secunda scourges Plantagenet England. Giotto’s Last Judgement Slumbers in umbrage on the Cusp of the Quattrocento. Halberstadt, Flush, bustling prince-bishopric - its Cathedral-treasure stash of Relics looted at the Sack of Constantinople – hosts the First of its Kind: Chromatic keyboard, Twelve half-tones arranged in Octaves. Halberstadt - where, at St. Burchardi’s Monastery, Cistercian Sisters Scale the canonical hours: Minor - Terce, Sext, None and Compline; Major - Matins, Lauds and Vespers, in Perpetual rounds of Work, prayer and Lectio Divina. A century before, They nestle in a fecund vessel of Mystical vision, where Mechthild of Magdeburg - Fluid, erotic, vernacular - Lights the way for Meister Eckhart; where Mechtilde, Helfta’s Nightingale, Dispenses Special Grace to Dante as Matelda. Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine years Slip by. Millennium tenor Deeds St. Burchardi’s to Zen musical maverick already Eight years passed: Bird now uncaged - Purposeless, intentionless - Pecking away at membranes - Temporal, musical – from the Beyond. The Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine-year Lease unfolds As Slow as Possible on an Organ fashioned for this purpose. Hiss of compressors, taut notes Coasting over billowing groans until 2640. Pauses a week before 9/11: seventeen months of silence, then Nine movements, each lasting Seventy-one years. Chord kept up over seven years, between Benedict’s flight to Castel Gandolfo and Second Lockdown. Austere piety, Avant-garde whimsy - ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Spurning utility, instrumentality - Partaking in visions that far Outstrip lifetimes, Current-day zeitgeist confines. Contemplative prayer, Playful contingency - Tentative forays into Deep Time, Possible only when one Listens closely with Open heart, Open mind. Eternity disclosed in Nugacity, ephemera: Birds, lilies, Mustard seeds. Cloistered life, Choral work Whetting one’s Keenness for the Core - Still and small. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2024 Highly contrasted monochrome image of a statue by Susan Turcot (2007/8) of mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1282) ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2022 Poster-sized mural of US avant-garde composer, John Cale (1912-1992)
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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We need to slow down asap.

#asslowaspossible
February 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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We sometimes work hard on new theories about chilling, but someone has to do it. :AsSlowAsPossible:
April 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
lenahallesaale.bsky.social
Wonderful music project in Halberstadt, here recommended by
@mrillig.bsky.social #AsSlowAsPossible
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February 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
marinadellmour.bsky.social
Das klingt angenehm :) ich denke sogar, dass man insgeheim viel "effektiver" ist, wenn man langsamer geht und gut auf sich achtet! Aber vielleicht darf man einfach mal ruhiger machen und entspannen 🧘‍♀️
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#asap #slowdown #asslowaspossible #achtsamkeit #meditation
February 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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💡 #rethink
:LaVarDislike: #refuse
🚰#refill
🔧#repair
:AsSlowAsPossible: #relax

before you

♻️ #recycle
🪱 #rot
🤬 #react
February 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
katjawindau.bsky.social
Besuch im #BurchardiKloster in #Halberstadt mit @joannaschulte.bsky.social
#johncage #asslowaspossible #orgelprojekt #sachsenanhalt
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM