"No matter how many times I'm punched in the face, I won't give up on the Flag!" That's what my friend said.
On day 1 of 2022, we just want to say that at any time, it can be a good time to start again. Sometimes what we lack may be a goal that touches us in the depths of our hearts and drives us to change.
But the lack of understanding is action, not exploration is risky. So, we asked Sisyphus's book selection team to bring this Flag reference list. There are grandmothers in their 70s, unknown soul painters, and explorers who live in the mountains or go wild with the wind...
Follow our book list and insert the unique Flag:
"Today we have to start again"
"Life Can Happen Again"
"Life Is Hot Because of You"
"I do an exhibition every night"
"Living by the Mountains"
"Go Wild with the Wind"
Life on the Tree
"Only work, not work, 20 young people who don't go to work white paper"
"Doing Two Days off five: A Guide to Urban Life with Little Money"
Mook's "Outside the Thing" series
An artistic life at the age of 74
At the age of 74, she learned to paint and held a solo exhibition at the age of 76, and Grandma Ah Zi perfectly explained what it means to "never be too late to start".
Grandma Ah Zi is an ordinary Chinese elderly person, after the death of her wife in 2016, her spirit also collapsed, becoming a regular visitor to the hospital, and twice critically ill. In response to the concern of her granddaughter Ah Zi, she began to learn to paint. From the beginning, I couldn't even hold the brush steadily, and then I enjoyed painting one day after another.
In two years, Grandma Ah Zi completed 600 paintings, unconsciously alleviated an illness, and successfully held a solo exhibition. She found herself in painting and started a new journey in her life. All of this was recorded by Grandma Ah Zi in "Today I Have to Start Again", where Grandma Ah Zi's memories of life, her perception of life, and her paintings that make people feel very intimate.
Grandma who appeared on "Time" at the age of 93
Like Grandma Azi, Grandma Moses picked up a paintbrush at the age of 78. As a young woman, she left her home to work as a maid on a farm, giving birth to ten children until the death of her husband.
Grandma Moses began to distract herself by making needlework and quilts depicting farm life. But by the age of 78, arthritis prevented her from embroidering, and friends suggested she try painting the scenes.
At the age of 93, Grandma Moses appeared on the cover of Time magazine and became a world-renowned artist. In "Life Can Be Repeated At Any Time", we can browse the pastoral paintings of Grandma Moses while understanding the vivid and touching stories behind the paintings.
23 years of unrepentant rock'n' roll
What kind of courage does it take to stick to your dreams? In the autobiography of the band New Pants, we find the answer.
If it weren't for "Summer of the Band," the New Pants Band would be far from the public's view. For 23 years, the team has been attracted to rock and roll and has walked the band's path without hesitation. During those years when the musical environment was difficult, the band members could only use the income from work to support the band's expenses.
"Life Is Hot Because of You" allows us to see the charm and persistence of the new pants, and also tells us with facts that short-term success cannot support perseverance, and we have to love it. The story of new pants continues, and so does the story of young people chasing ideals.
A painter of earthly souls
The new pants are finally broken, but more people who insist on their dreams are like Aaron, who "carries out" on the side of the road in the ancient city of Dali every day, obscurity and self-reliance.
He paints his companions who set up stalls on Renmin Road, the vendors and tourists who are caught off guard on the rainy night of June; the widows who sell spicy seeds in the market and the people who walk around carrying bamboo baskets; he and his girlfriend raise a few chickens and pots of flowers and plants in the courtyard rented by the village, the ever-changing light and shadow on the old wall of the village, a cockroach in the corner of the wall; the torch festival he sees, the funeral of the old man in the village... His gaze is deep and delicate, his painting is his viewing eye, his whole feelings about life, and the blank space in the painting has endless extra-painting meaning.
To this day, Aaron is still not famous, but through "Every Night I Am Doing a Painting Exhibition", which is called the "most beautiful book" in China in 2021, we can get to know him, a painter who insists on painting every night, painting everything in the world until he becomes a part of the world.
Poetic and authentic life of seclusion
For most people, seclusion is something that is occasionally thought of but difficult to act upon. But for Erdong, he has been living in seclusion under the Zhongnan Mountain for 8 years, which is a poetic life that has been realized.
But poetry does not mean romance, as can be seen from the keywords listed in the second winter:
Sunsets, ghosts, bugs and snakes, empty silence, cold, heat, fantasy, late night, lightning, rainy days, carrying food, no vegetables to eat, down the mountain, up the mountain, logging, carrying water, strangers knocking on the door, no computer network, no mobile phone signal in the hand...
These can't shake the determination of the second winter, because "I want to take a nap, roast the fire, bask in the sun, be true, clear and stable." ”
In "Living by the Mountain", we will see his life in the past eight years of borrowing the mountain, which records the process of transforming the courtyard after he came to the mountain to live, the interesting things about getting along with his animal friends such as geese and puppies, the stories of mountain flowers and plants such as wild pea flowers and early apricots, and the observation and reflection on the choice of this life.
A "Adventure Tour" that crosses the bike
If seclusion is difficult to emulate, then Baiguan's cycling life is easy to learn from - of course, it does not include riding for three and a half years across 30 provinces. But Bai Guan's cycling experience is indeed called a "adventure journey", he met the Wild Children Band, met his life partner, and saw the most beautiful sunrise and good weather with them.
Bai Guan is an original artist, so "Go Wild with the Wind" is a comic book, in which Bai Guan draws himself as a wolf, vivid and lively, humorous and funny. His creative notes reflect the author's and the book's idiosyncrasies:
"The painting is actually his own teenage dream, and now in reverse, chasing freedom to go outside for three years is indeed a rare thing." However, in the years when I rode, I met the same kind of people on the road, but not all of them were teenagers, and there were many old men and women. Riding up, I thought as I chased after it. In terms of time and physical span, people's lives from childhood to old age are laid out linearly like traditional novels. But in terms of mental state, a person has no certainty at all. It can be like a modern novel, complex in structure and colorful. Suddenly, they are teenagers, and some people can be crazy for a lifetime when they are hit by a heavy hammer and step on Xiangyun. ”
BBC photographer's 'Heart of the Tree'
Some lives can be borrowed, but some are more suitable for thinking, such as BBC photographer James, the protagonist of "Life on the Tree". He was involved behind Blue Planet and Earth Pulse, but it's hard to know how cinematographers made such a grand and brilliant documentary.
"Life on the Tree" will tell you that the short minutes or even seconds of the documentary require the photographer to stay in the tree for a short period of days or months, and during this time, they may even be in danger of life, and nature will not take care of you because you are making a documentary. And in these years, photographers and nature have developed a deep bond:
"My pleasure comes from a deep-seated belief – I believe that each tree has a unique personality and that if tree climbers are willing to listen, they will pour out. Even if it is only a short period of direct contact, it will inevitably produce a feeling. As representatives of lives from the past, I believe they deserve my heartfelt respect, and I'm sure most people experience an emotional connection to them at some point in their lives. ”
"Only work, not work, 20 young people who don't go to work white paper"
"I just want to be different from others"
Encouraged by grandmas and gods, but feel too far away from yourself? The 20 "non-working youths" in this book have used their own experiences to prove that more free survival and life are achievable.
They're coffee shop owners or dessert shopkeepers, freelance journalists and "digital nomads," freedivers, organizers, and so on. After interviewing nearly a hundred people, the author found that the starting point of many people is actually very simple: "I just want to be different from others."
And so was the book. Through it, we will find that in addition to clocking in to work, promotion and salary increase, there are many possibilities in life.
Urban seclusion is also a viable way of life
Want to be more radical, and in the city can also fight impetuosity with a secluded mentality? "Do Two Breaks and Five Breaks" provides a "strategy", and even some readers have read it and claimed that this book is "the ideal life of homemakers and social phobia patients".
But to achieve this, what is needed is the support of a "desireless and rigid" mentality, and the author moves to the suburbs to live, eliminates unnecessary social networking, and tries to save money in order to reduce the financial relationship with the world.
We don't have to emulate the author's specific approach, but the author shows the possibility that the lifestyle advocated by the commercial society can be effectively isolated and reduced in the pressure of life. And the author is also very soberly aware that if there are fewer things, of course, the money will become less, which is the "price" that needs to be paid.
A richer and more diverse way of life
More life possibilities can also be found in the 6 books in the Mook Series: from wilderness life, to climbing peaks, polar ice diving, and even underwater photography.
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