Category Archives: Being Human

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky/ e e cummings awakens.

Mother and Child by e e cummings c. 1920 Oil on canvas board i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural … Continue reading

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A Variety Perspectives on Living Creatively

A genius is the one who is most like himself – Thelonius Monk Consider everything an experiment – Sister Corita Kent “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” – Voltaire (1694-1778) Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as … Continue reading

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The Frontier: The Cost of a One Sided View of History.

  Frontier has two sides. It is an interface, a threshold, a liminal site, with all the danger and promise of liminality.                 The front side, the yang side, the side that calls itself the frontier, that’s where you boldly … Continue reading

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A Variety Perspectives on Living Creatively

A genius is the one who is most like himself – Thelonius Monk   Consider everything an experiment – Sister Corita Kent   “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)   Sometimes the … Continue reading

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Doing the Lord’s Work in The New World

  Given the choice I would rather go to hell. It can’t be worse than living with people who have no compassion. It starts with assuming that some people are less than human, but I still don’t understand why people … Continue reading

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