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before the beginning

Posted on January 19, 2022May 10, 2022 by bob
Title: hominid, granite,10/11cm x 13 cm, cone7/8. unglazed, a slight fuming from the granite itself, black lines accentuate the cracks/tearing in the fired piece. Originally the shape of an egg. (In honor of our deepest precursor).

Beginnings of things are not always evident when we look only at the thing about which we have uncertainty, a query or an inclination to explain or somehow make clear. Quite often in human affairs, our attempts to account for and explain a current state, takes into account a limited version of the entity, skipping past so much of its perhaps elusive and enriching context. We cannot go all the way back to the beginnings and origins of things every time, or out to the dramatic fullness of the interwoven fabric of structure every time. We would never stop.1

But, we do stop. Well before the fullness, so keep your inner eye on the wispy reasons for doing so. These flickers tell us where we are in the grand unplanned scheme of things for this particular phenomenon or occurrence.

  1. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science. Stephen Weinberg, (Penguin Books, 2015)

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