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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…
(meandering from a to b, and so on…) This post is longish and wanders—not without purpose. Forewarned is forearmed! My queries in this post are about neither the deeper evolution of human beings—their coming into existence at all— nor about the astonishing array of all the living entities within the envelope of the inanimate, dynamic…
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…
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…
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…