Category Archives: anthropology

Time Moves What Seems Still

Posted on December 29, 2025 by randomyriad

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.” — Dylan, Things Have Changed

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2025 Guide To Intelligent Interraction in a Morally and Intellectually Challenged Society: Lessons #1 and 2

Posted on April 8, 2025 by randomyriad

Reading is a means of listening. Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it. You read at your pace, your own speed, not the ceaseless, incoherent, gabbling, shouting rush of the media. You … Continue reading →

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Leaning into Our Shadows Under the Cold Bright Sun

Posted on May 16, 2024 by randomyriad

Beginning The moon drops one or two feathers into the field.   The dark wheat listens.Be still.Now.There they are, the moon’s young, tryingTheir wings.Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadowOf her face, and now she steps into the air, … Continue reading →

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Now is the Time for Telling True Stories

Posted on April 13, 2023 by randomyriad
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Tarot Journal #54: 5 of Disks (Adaptation)/ Knight of Pentacles/ Two of Wands/ Death

Posted on September 9, 2022 by randomyriad

Reevaluating Intimate Connections The pursuit of greater confusion by de(con)struction of the individual (gender, sexuality, professional and family function, education, culture, history …) produces an increase in anxiety, while the pursuit of an investigation of the structures of consciousness as … Continue reading →

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