“If the Sun & Moon should Doubt They’d immediately Go out.”– William Blake: Auguries of Innocence* Dear friends & fam & fellow wayfarers. Today, where I live, in Toronto, Canada, the sun went out.Not completely, but just an hours drive or so away, the sun went out completely, for a brief. I had a ‘1 Thing’ […]
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Sometime about 30 years ago, maybe more, I had a dream, just a fragment, which I still remember vividly.There was a tiger in a coal mine,and it was trapped down there by a manic and harsh master,dressed like a circus lion tamer;skinny man in black coattails, a top hat, with a stick.That was it.Never forgot
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The Xmas Spell Xmas isn’t my favourite time of year. It’s come, in fact, to be my least favourite time of year. I once celebrated the most magical aspects of the Santa trope, carrying on my parents’ tradition, arranging my kids’ stuffies while they slept around the fireplace, leaving ashen footprints of Santa having come
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Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza Holocaust genocide refugees,Naqbah Amalekh atrocities.IDF Hamas HezbollahJihad US Ayatollah. Great Britian imperialismapartheid Zionismethnic cleansinganti-semiticextremism. Islam Judaism,Liberation Yerushalayim,Sins of the fathers visited on the children.Transgenerational vengeance engine. Uzzi settlers burning olive treesbreeds revenge in helpless teens;torture, memory, Nazis:perpetual collective trauma machine. — One state two statesIslamic state Jewish stateState of constant
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Download a PDF The way up is the way down.* Out at the edge of the worldtectonic plates,continental shelves,are cataclysmically shifting;colliding,grinding together,crushing and buckling and crumpling,breakingthe surface of the earthopenforcing whole oceans of stoneupwards into the sky,and downinto the sea of magma below,bursting forth in flaming lava conflagrations,mountainous volcanoes. The way up is the way
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The relationship of trust and power is complicated. We all so deeply desire to be able to fully trust someone, something, some people. But, unfortunately, it’s precisely where our desires are greatest, our needs most unmet, that we are vulnerable to manipulation and, in fact, become manipulative ourselves. ‘Trust’ can be a lever worked by con artists for ‘power’. Ultimately, it’s only by learning to trust ourselves that we can become fully capable of discerning not just who to trust, but how much to trust.
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‘Route, Rig & Reel’ are three very simple words representing three approaches to identity.
They are three ways of responding to the question, ‘Who are you?’.
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Fascinating and provocative explorations of the question ‘Where are you going?’ ‘rooted’ in the question ‘Who are you?’.
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In reaction to my deep dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I remembered a song I wrote a while back called ‘Truth is a Refugee’, about wars, and truth. Just piano and vox. And I did my very best to bring it back, and made a recording on Saturday (special thanks to rj fleck for
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View ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop description POISE to be balanced or suspended; to be ready, a state of readiness; equally weighted, weight bearing, good ‘bearing’. A migratory translibrium. ComplexityStructural complexity vs/and Perceptual complexityI’m approaching complexity as an ‘experience’ we have, rather than an ‘objective phenomena out-there’.“Complex systems are defined by entangled
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