A DIARY POUR OUBLIER

 

TO BE EXPUNGED IF NOT OBLITERATED

waking up

not waking

and not up

checking

breath

heart beat

noises from other rooms

familiar

may be good

cat's presence almost obvious

though 

toes are not under attack

take mask off

one relief achieved

need to leave bed

and

walk to next relief

calculate urgency

wake

still not up

urgency is more urgent

swinging feet down

not so easy

must roll body 

disregard upper left arm muscle pain

remember position of cane

slow walk

28 steps to sit

no need for a sigh

plan new moves

to wash

to clean

to call for choice of breakfast

eggs

how many

with salad 

or cheese

blue, i think i should choose

tea

apple cider vinegar first

arrange pills

by size and colour

tea already tepid

look for newspaper

search glasses

prioritize

sports, politics, murders

singular or  en masse

visualize art and authors

silently vocalize concerts

wake up

consider options

PC or bed 

choice of relief

check the ferry boats

wonder who rides them 

and who missed them

for another few minutes

of

bed

or relief

as always

ahmet cafer celebiler

September 2, 2025

DANGERS OF NEED ACHIEVEMENT

 

PUNISHMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT

not everyone

can

or should

escape mediocrity

just lay back

and feel the breeze

on your face

and 

let it carry your words

away

as far away

as possible

The only incentive in any political idological system depends on the recognition of loopholes and the ability to utilize them for furthering one’s power and/or wealth. However, one needs to stay in the background and not flaunt any achievements, if possible, frequently discarding aces and kings with a vacant, shamed face.

As far as my almost eighty years of experience tells, there is no system that rewards intelligence, ability and hard work after a certain point in a political, academic, legal or business hierarchy. In fact, it becomes a requirement that you have to use your intelligence, ability, hard work and expertise to hang on to what you have achieved instead of attempting for new achievements.

This is true in communism, capitalism, theocracy, idiocracy, tribalism and even home economics.

too many 

chiefs

and

spouses

made the mistake

to never be heard again

in great edifices

or tiny igloos

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 29, 2025

FAMILIES COMMUNITIES TRIBES

 

GROUPS CLASSES GATHERINGS

social sciences 

all imagined

pictured

sent 

to 

soft matter

covered by layer upon layer

of other matter

and bones 

and 

multiple networks

also 

hair

to protect

surfaces

despite

endangered holes

and ramparts 

breachable

and

contents

not esoteric

just

a receptacle

for

 data 

trickled through sieves 

nets

slabs

atmospheric oddities

stirred

shuffled

by events

feelings 

and thoughts

alien

to the species

sporadic

mistaken

misshaped

and

wishing

they were surreal

super beings

with no evidence

or rationale

to leave 

accompanying

fireflies

and weevils

and

dust

and sand

and

stars

so 

far away

yet close

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 25, 2025

MY FIRST BATTLESHIP

 

USS MISSOURI (BB-63) arrived in Istanbul 5-9 April, 1946

Gunboat Diplomacy: Turkey, USA and the Advent of the Cold War 

This visit was not to welcome me to the world. It was almost two years after my arrival. 

But, it was the beginning of political and military activity which dominated the first  thirty years of my educational and social life. 

ahmet celebiler

August 24, 2025

TYPHOONS HURRICANES AND TUFANS (TAI FUNG)

 

FOLLOW THE REVERSED HIEROPHANT

odes 

written

to the

west wind

and stories

of

the bona fide

and all other

tufans

whirl

in

succession

and

unapprehended aspiration

carrying furies

to torment

a prometheus

ancient and modern

and others

bound by visible

and unvisible

life lines 

to rocks

and to each other

some

under jupiters throne

others 

trodden 

under his feet

and

other appendages

twisted 

with whirlwinds

arthritic

sent to bind humanity

to rocks 

to beliefs

to authority

the demigorgon

paying  a long

uninterrupted

visit

to the surface

since the advent of the primordial black hole

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 17, 2025

references :  "Prometheus Unbound" , "Ode to the West Wind

AN ADMISSION

 

GUILTY UNTIL A MAJORITY OF READERS FIND ME INNOCENT

i have been plagiarizing from my other blog, "www.otherchelebistravels.blogspot.com", but founf out that access has been denied to it, for some reason. yet other international readers have been accessing it.

In any case, some of these trips are also on my Fodor's trip reports which my children and grandchildren would never find interesting because reading and those subjects are not popular in their world.

I hope that you find this occasional divergence from my regular topics fun and/or esoteric. And if you do or do not, please let me know so I can believe that you are not an AI active in all those countries.

Ahmet celebiler

otherchelebi

August 8, 2025

PEDANTIC ADVICE

 

NO SAGE OR GURU

BUT BITING TONGUE

AND WRITING HAND

WHILE THROWING KERNELS

TO THE HUNGRY

What does it really mean to know ourselves, and how can we actually do it?

It means that you have spent time thinking of your ambitions, capabilities, quirks of character and all and more similar stuff like these for yourself andall people you interact with including fictional characters, family, friends, politicians, the rich and the famous and the poor and destitute.

You also consider other creatures as lives worthy of evaluation, and nature and art and beauty, wit and quirkiness you can discover as worthy of more thought and feeling.

The above , and more will give you a multitude of view points. You do not pick a single one or just a few as your very own. Accept them all as part of your life and that of all else, recognize them without making value judgements.

Pick some or most to use to write to talk, to utilize in your relationships, careers, hobbies, without ignoring, detesting, fighting, ridiculing any others.

If you have passed this on before you die, you should have a happy, satisfied departure from life.

ahmet cafer celebiler

August 8, 2025