Art/Skill/Techne
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Speaking in Tongues
humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading
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Mull of Kintyre
One of my favorite songs from when I was in High School. I actually sang it to my poetry class once. Sometimes I was foolishly brave for a fairly insecure kid. 😉 Continue reading
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Contemplation 209
Eye turning upward I falls away: Encompassing. Decisive release Continue reading
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Love – To Not Be – Asleep
Faith: trusting Hope: expecting Love: creating Here comes the sun To be: having To become: flowing To not be: emptying Raindrops keep falling on my head Awake: questioning Dreaming: transforming Asleep: detaching The baffled… Continue reading
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Shedding
Taking out the trash I note a strange movement Near my feet Small garden snake Sliding and undulating Over sidewalk Happy I did not step on her Watching the slipping pattern Do not give more fright Than you have already… Continue reading
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Night Vigil 22 Oct 2014
The enduring meaning of a process is the intuitive impulse to create. This is mirrored in the instinctual drives toward procreation and tool making. You can trace back any produced thing to its original. But the original is the expression… Continue reading
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In Defense Of Ms. Hill — Cuepoint — Medium
No matter what Lauryn Hill decided to do after she gave us The Miseducation, never forget that she already gave us The Miseducation. It was the most critically acclaimed album of 1998 and has become a modern classic. The following… Continue reading
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Wonder Woman’s Secret Past
Wonder Woman’s origin story comes straight out of feminist utopian fiction. In the nineteenth century, suffragists, following the work of anthropologists, believed that something like the Amazons of Greek myth had once existed, a matriarchy that predated the rise of… Continue reading
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Something Personal, Hidden, and Human
via Romantic Moment on Vimeo. Based on the poem by Tony Hoagland. Directed by John Arthur Wilson III Starring: Jill Henson & Lance Weihmuller II Narrated by Spencer Peirce Continue reading
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Ressentiment on Aug 17
Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in… Continue reading
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What Is The Isleworth Mona Lisa?
Two years before the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the aging artist was visited by Cardinal Luigi d’Aragona to survey his works. A diary written by the Cardinal’s secretary suggests da Vinci showcased a Mona Lisa portrait different than the… Continue reading
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A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR
Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline and the capacity to sit still and engage. It’s a skill you can develop, this quieting of the mind. Some books make it easier than others, sure, but the fact remains: A… Continue reading
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Dumb Movie About Brain Capacity
I cringe whenever the trailer for LUCY shows up online or at the theater. The notion that humans use only 10% of our brain is so silly. It is passed around because of a popular equivalence: the mind = the brain. So,… Continue reading
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Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
After ten years in the specialty coffee industry, Andy Sprenger returned with his family to his home town of Lakewood, Colorado to start a new chapter in his coffee career. Formerly the head roaster for Ceremony Coffee, he brings a wealth… Continue reading
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Toby Froud’s Lessons Learned: No CGI whenever Possible
In case you missed it last week, Toby Froud, the baby in the striped PJs from the movie Labyrinth, grew up, moved to Portland for a job at LAIKA, and premiered his own fantasy puppet film on Saturday in collaboration… Continue reading
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Dracula Begins
Luke Evans as Vlad Tepes aka Dracula. Continue reading
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Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract
For that beautiful youth Health in your hands… Thanksgiving! For me let there be An intercession! Another deep night Called to this vigil Not by a soul on fire With the compulsion To peer into Abyss But awake, alert Beneath the harsh… Continue reading
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The Writings On The Wall Put in Perspective
OKGO’s new video… And a conversation including the making of it over at NPR This video is all about perspective; the illusions are real, so to speak, and that’s what makes this jaw-dropping. Perspective images such as something called the… Continue reading
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