Category Archives: conversations

What We Are Dealing With in this Land of Delusion.

Posted on November 21, 2019 by randomyriad

We are dealing, then, with an absurdity that is not a quirk or an accident, but is fundamental to our character as people. The split between what we think and what we do is profound. — Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: … Continue reading →

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Historical Resource 1965

Posted on September 7, 2019 by randomyriad

Absurdity in the face of overwhelming hypocrisy and paranoia

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April Poem #2

Posted on April 3, 2019 by randomyriad

End of the Day In the long evening of April through the cool light          Baille’s two sheep dogs sail down the lane like magpies for the flock a moment before he appears near the oaks   … Continue reading →

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Coffee Shop 7 am Last Day of January Just Before the Rain

Posted on February 2, 2019 by randomyriad

People talk so much about the small bits of minutia as if the details of life matter. Tomorrow it will be another little thing to talk about. I feel like a tired old man when I talk like that, but … Continue reading →

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Science, Silence and the Sound of Spirit

Posted on February 25, 2018 by randomyriad

Two Poems by Jane Hirshfield   ON THE FIFTH DAY On the fifth day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers. The scientists who studied the air were told not to speak of … Continue reading →

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