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Reversion, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Toward Tranquility in the Current Empire
Looking Back Almost twenty years ago, I began troubling the word peace. Like many of us, I had long imagined peace as the cessation of violence, the arrival of stillness, the mutual exhale after the fire. But something in the… Continue reading
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From Republic to Serfdom: Misreading Rome in America’s Rural Imagination
Introduction The recent interview with Ammon Bundy in The Salt Lake Tribune highlights a recurring theme among certain rural conservatives: the belief that the expansion of government welfare signals the decline of a once-great republic. Bundy’s assertion that the U.S.… Continue reading
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Love’s Generative Nothingness: A Philosophical Reflection
Original Spontaneous Insight Love is making something out of nothing. Creatio ex nihilo. Love makes, builds, creates connections where none are and a life together that has not yet been lived. Upon no thing can anyone discover such a possibility.… Continue reading
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Interpreting thru Maize meanings written in light
I get to work alongside amazing youth. Here are a couple of YouTubes from two of my siblings who have shared with me their most current projects. I wanted to share it with my friends and colleagues who sometimes stumble… Continue reading
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NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION… WELL, MAYBE SOME OF US DO.
GETTING BACK INTO PUBLIC THINKERING† Since finishing my dissertation, I have not written nearly as much even in my journals as I used to do. I think the break is over now, however. The last few weeks have gotten me… Continue reading
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NOTICE OF FREEDOM TO EXPRESS MY VIEWS
As a voting citizen of the State of Texas and the United States of America, I assert my right to freedom of speech, as protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This personal blog is a space where… Continue reading
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Diana & Julia: A Friendship Through Correspondence
This post celebrates the 101st birthday of Diana Kennedy on March 3rd. In 2019, Special Collections began acquiring materials from British food … Diana & Julia: A Friendship Through Correspondence Continue reading
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Siren Song Society: Profound Boredom – Authentic Leisure – Existential Liberation
offer these connections to encourage people to be okay with boredom–to not see every break in labor or in study or in whatever as requiring us to find something to amuse ourselves into utter alienated distraction. Continue reading
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Carnival Storm Drain, or the Outflow of Transistance
transistance does not flood-into our thinkering as the eradication of nihilism–shorting-out the negating power–but rather flows-out as a transformative process towards a broader, more inclusive engagement with reality. Continue reading
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The Great Awakening Trembles
The Great Awakening trembles before the abyss, its laurels withered by the winds of dialectic. Continue reading
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What Would Malcolm X Say About Gaza and Black Resistance in the US Today? | Truthout
Sawyer discusses how Malcolm X’s political theory helps us understand the connection between Gazans and African Americans. Continue reading
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Courts Aren’t Impartial or Apolitical. Trump Is Using That to His Advantage. | Truthout
To try to make sense of the courts’ approach to Trump’s speech using free speech principles is to invite mystification. Instead, we should look to external political factors that influence judicial decision making. Professors Daniel Rodriguez and Mathew McCubbins explain:… Continue reading
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Jazz Theorbo
My beautiful sibling Dušan Ballarin (University of North Texas, Indiana University, Juilliard) is one of a very few who study Renaissance/Baroque music who could pull off showing up at the Cloisters to accompany the peerless Cécille McLorin Salvant on his… Continue reading
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Encompassing – Bright Truth – Wonderful
This is a song that I started singing a few days before my dissertation defense as I walked around my neighborhood in the early morning. I think the tune goes back to when I was in the Seminary? I know… Continue reading
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For Tihleigh, 21 Oct 2023
If you do not bring your friends up with you, who will? If you do not let your friends bring you up, who really can? There is nothing else to lifting each other up than beholding that the greatest truth—freedom—obtains… Continue reading
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APHORISM 02 OCT 2023
Uncertainty has three profiles: DREAD FINITIUDE BOREDOM Continue reading
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APHORISM 01Oct2023
The Divine Good, being omniscient, can never forget. But as Good Being, chooses to not remember, letting-go of condemnation in the face of honest repentance. When we forgive ourselves for our actions–for all we have done that we should not… Continue reading
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