Category Archives: delusions of progress

Of the Fall and Falling and the Fallen

Posted on November 20, 2024 by randomyriad

If we can travel with our eyes wide open in the searing wind and churning flood of human activity, we can at times glimpse hopeful and useful signs as they bubble up from the chaos, but only if we can … 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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Important Ideas to Ponder Part I

Posted on December 9, 2023 by randomyriad

TO BE A PERSONby Jane Hirshfield To be a person is an untenable proposition. Odd of proportion,upright,unbalanced of body, feeling, and mind. Two predator’s eyesface forward,yet seem always to be trying to look back. Unhooved, untaloned fingersseem to grasp mostly … Continue reading →

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Machines Will Not Save Us

Posted on July 19, 2023 by randomyriad

A perfect system is not static. it contains the capacity to make adjustments within itself in order to adapt to changes both internal and external. Nothing can ever achieve a state of perfection that will continue. In order to approach … Continue reading →

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2023 Graphic Journal Page #16: May 3 to May 13

Posted on May 13, 2023 by randomyriad

Grief

Posted in Abstraction, All part of the process, Being Human, Collage, delusions of progress, discovery and recovery, doodles, Drawing, investigations of color, Loss and Leaving, My Art, my life, paying attention, Self-Experiments, Works in Progress | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment