Language talking about language and thought thinking about thought: whew, and here I thought I knew something!Current language use and the interconnectedness of today’s words with their deep and mythic, interwoven history, are a very rich ground for the complexity of the meanings and the functions of the words we use.Simultaneously, they tacitly engage (some…
Month: September 2021
and to begin…
As with many things natural, this blog’s coming to be arose within me from an inner push, an impulse embedded in the setting of a co-nesting world—my lived life: understood, intimately felt and often reflected upon, yet frequently just beyond my deeper comprehension. Facets of my regular, daily existence encompass a diverse array of actions…
who is doing what/ what is who?
“However, no one has hitherto laid down the limits to the powers of the body, that is, no one has as yet been taught by experience (emphasis mine) what the body can accomplish solely by the laws of nature, in so far as she is regarded as extension. No one hitherto has gained such an…
the Land of Nod:
big bang. Eden. great mystery: human life on earth Pre-dawn light in the Land of Nodfirst breath in the Land of Nodwhen the ground is lost,its blood speaksall order gone.The dam’s fissure leaks.Neither yes nor no,not even, if-then.To be or not – forgotten,all therein beyond our ken. At the edge, not there,the centre, ephemeral at…
creative drift : advent/transition
When I think of the notion of creative drift, I imagine several broad, orienting categories of ideas, directional impressions, cohering undercurrent flow patterns and the like. Although my intentional interests in this blog will naturally slant perspective toward the subjects of my posts and pages, I do habitually keep in sight, my big picture grasp…
Another view on “what”:
Process and Product: Imagine a potter gracefully caressing clay as it spins on the potter’s wheel. Just off to one side of the potter are the many balls of clay about to fall beneath the fascinating spell of those masterful hands. The clay passes through a lengthy working process which begins with the round moist…
creative drift: improvement needed
Fortunately for us, the humans,, when we chance to reflect on our existence from much earlier times to the present, we feel in a stronger, more sophisticated state than all our forebears—human and otherwise. Simply look about you and see the advantages of being human in the 21st century. We have certainly learned a great…