#enso

[tanuki-kimono]

Chic modern obi depicting a minimalist ensô ("zen circle", single stroke circle calligraphy) shaped rabbit. It's paired with a soft lavender tsumugi kimono with faint chrysanthemums flowers.

[thewales-family]

The Prince of Wales visits the 2023 Earthshot Prize Finalist ENSO, a UK-based tyre startup developed specifically for electric vehicles, in Brentford, England -October 1st 2024.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Ensō, caligrafia japonesa

[studiominimalista]

"Breath"

[keepingitneutral]

Enso House II, Guanajuato, Mexico,

HW studio arquitectos,

César Béjar Photography

[imaghoulieghoul]

Hanging out after hours

@ask-enso-ghoul

[chromatic-lamina]

one piece episode 1074 (benn shanks, enso version) [new opening]

[rawheadex]

:to oppose something is to maintain it:

[abstracteddistractions]

Doug Cannell, “Enso”,

Laminated, Bent Plywood,

Courtesy of the gallery

[ppmid]

Zen Breakfast - Buy here

[biologicalfandomhippo]

Okay I need to put this out here: I keep seeing people get all sad and defeatist about it not being snowy this season. There is an El niño right now. That is the second biggest effector on local climates globally.

What this means is that the trade winds have essentially disappeared, and increased convection over the ocean is changing air circulation patterns globally.

Scientists don't know what causes this but we have a few theories. We have noticed them getting more frequent due to climate change.

This has happened before. It's probably getting more frequent now, but there have been variations due to El niño years basically forever. This year is an anomaly, not the new norm. We do need to worry about climate change, but the situation is not as dire as this year would make it appear. The biggest thing we can all do is educate ourselves about how the climate works, and take action as a group as appropriate.

[thewales-family]

The Prince of Wales visits the 2023 Earthshot Prize Finalist ENSO, a UK-based tyre startup developed specifically for electric vehicles, in Brentford, England -October 1st 2024.

[now-here-now]

how to be now here?

without a focus

without a technique

at ease

When my mind is goddamn busy, ranting, rumbling with emotions. It can be really difficult to get through. I get caught between fighting against the constant outburst of emotions and their acceptance.

For a while now, I thought only a strong focus on something can help me out of these situations. It doesn´t come easy. Maybe constant practice when I´m inside as well as when I´m outside of emotional thunderstorms will get me to a point where I can .... be ... at ease.

Today though, I got a new insight. My mind thought that focus is the solution to all dilemma, on every level. Emotional, physical health, ... But ... Focus is not working without its counterpart - the open horizon, the eagle eye perspective. It definitely helped me get through today. To consciously go out of my "head" and move to another point of the situation, see through somebody elses eyes, or simply to connect/ merge with what I´m actually fighting against.

Oh, and of course, talking about it and digging on in an investigating, curious manner works wonders.

Like a private detective. A private Eye.

What is the real truth? That unites and transcends all our indvidual perceptions.

That´s how this blog came into being.

I´d like to share my experiences on the path with you. And I´d like to hear about your experiences.

I would also love to help you investigate your inner "crime scenes", your seemingly unsolvable puzzles. Feel free to contact me!

Together we can dig, question, turn everything upside down to come to point of clarity. Instead of finding a solution, we can find a clear blue sky.

We can communicate in English, German, silence, body language ... :-) Here as well, I love working on different layers - in physical, energetic or virtual contact. Whatever is possible and helpful at a specific moment.

[iamterra]

My first piece of art for this year. A chibi Zenyatta called Ensō that belongs to @themaskedbean​

[deftswerve]

mueller redactions

[thetwistedrope]

while these aren't exactly brazil, they also hearken to similar problems:

hey uh so I haven't seen anyone talking about this here yet, but

the amazon river, like the biggest river in the fucking world, in the middle of the amazon fucking rainforest, is currently going through its worst drought since the records began 121 years ago

picture from Folha PE

there's a lot going on but I haven't seen much international buzz around this like there was when the forest was on fire (maybe because it's harder to shift the narrative to blame brazil exclusively as if the rest of the world didn't have fault in this) so I wanted to bring this to tumblr's attention

I don't know too many details as I live in the other side of the country and we are suffering from the exact opposite (at least three cyclones this year, honestly have stopped counting - it's unusual for us to get hit by even one - floods, landslides, we have a death toll, people are losing everything to the water), but like, I as a brazilian have literally never seen pictures of the river like this before. every single city in the amazonas state is in a state of emergency as of november 1st.

pictures by Adriano Liziero (ig: geopanoramas)

we are used to seeing images of rio negro and solimões, the two main amazon river affluents, in all their grandiose and beauty and seeing these pictures is really fucking chilling. some of our news outlets are saying the solimões has turned to a sand desert... can you imagine this watery sight turning into a desert in the span of a year?

while down south we are seeing amounts of rain and hailstorms the likes of which our infrastructure is simply not built to deal with, up north people who have built everything around the river are at a loss of what to do.

the houses there that are built to float are just on the ground, people who depend on fishing for a living have to walk kilometers to find any fish that are still alive at all, the biodiversity there is at risk, and on an economic level it's hard to grasp how people from the northern states are getting by at all - the main means of transport for ANYTHING in that region is via the river water. this will impact the region for months to come. it doesnt make a lot of sense to build a lot of roads bc it's just better to use the waterway system, everything is built around or floats on the river after all. and like, the water level is so incomprehensibly low the boats are just STUCK. people are having a hard time getting from one place to another - keep in mind the widest parts of the river are over 10 km apart!!

this shit is really serious and i am trying not to think about it because we have a different kind of problem to worry about down south but it's really terrifying when I stop to think about it. you already know the climate crisis is real and the effects are beyond preventable now (we're past global warming, get used to calling it "global boiling"). we'll be switching strategies to damage control from now on and like, this is what it's come to.

I don't like to be alarmist but it's hard not to be alarmed. I'm sorry that I can't end this post with very clear intructions on how people overseas can help, there really isn't much to do except hope the water level rises soon, maybe pray if you believe in something. in that regard we just have to keep pressing for change at a global level; local conditions only would not, COULD NOT be causing this - the amazon river is a CONTINENTAL body of water, it spans across multiple countries. so my advice is spread the word, let your representatives know that you're worried and you want change towards sustainability, degrowth and reduced carbon emissions, support your local NGOs, maybe join a cause, I don't know? I recommend reading on ecological and feminist economics though

however, I know you can help the affected riverine families by donating to organizations dedicated to helping the region. keep in mind a single US dollar, pound or euro is worth over 5x more in our currency so anything you donate at all will certainly help those affected.

FAS - Sustainable Amazon Fundation

Idesam - Sustainable Developent and Preservation Institute of Amazonas

Greenpeace Brasil - I know Greenpeace isn't the best but they're one of the few options I can think of that have a bridge to the international world and they are helping directly

There are a lot of other smaller/local NGOs but I'm not sure how you could donate to them from overseas, I'll leave some of them here anyway:

Projeto Gari

Legião da Boa Vontade

Caritás Brasileira

If you know any other organizations please link them, I'll be sure to reblog though my reach isn't a lot

thank you so much for reading this to the end, don't feel obligated to share but please do if you can! even if you just read up to here it means a lot to me that someone out there knows

also as an afterthought, I wanted to expand on why I think this hasn't made big news yet: because unlike the case of the 2020 forest fires, other countries have to hold themselves accountable when looking at this situation. while in 2020 it was easier to pretend the fires were all our fault and people were talking about taking the amazon away from us like they wouldn't do much worse. global superpowers have no more forests to speak of so I guess they've been eyeing what latin america still has. so like this bit of the post is just to say if you're thinking of saying anything of the sort, maybe think of what your own country has done to contribute to this instead of blaming brazil exclusively and saying the amazon should be protected by force or whatever