Category: Imagination
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Reinterpreted as a COVID concept album
Reflecting on Love is a Place as a concept album about my experience during the COVID-19 quarantine STREAM: YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon MusicBUY the CD. It took a while to master the album because it was my first time mastering anything and that learning curve is steep. The process took place during the…
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Personification to Connect Us to Our Environment
Does it seem a farce to personify the world around us? The non-person world is going on all the time, just doing its myriad things. We share the same time and space coordinates as these non-person entities around us. We even share significant amounts of DNA with many of the organisms surrounding us. And yet,…
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Bridges of Play in Art, Philosophy, and Childhood
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWjG7_Sv0E&w=853&h=480] The nature of the will is one of the major problematics of life. Philosophers and artists have long labored to clarify the position we are in concerning the will. How much power does one person have? How much responsibility does one have in achieving for oneself the good life, and how can this…
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The Moth of the Fire Tower: a Living Parable
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Annie Dillard and Thomas Merton on Pushing Passed “Good Enough”
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Born into a system of norms set strategically before us, it’s always surprising to be reminded that we are still ultimately at the helm of this process of what we accomplish and what we choose to bring into being.
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Barnett Newman on the Aesthetic Roots of Humanity
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“Man’s hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin.” “Undoubtedly the first man was an artist,” begins a remarkable little speculative essay written in 1947 by Barnett Newman. It proposes that the aesthetic act of wonder precedes the social and utilitarian acts…
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To Imagine the Real
All life is repetitive. Repetitive forms, repetitive behaviors. It isn’t strictly repetitive, for Nature loves surprises. But you won’t find fiddleheads popping out of the ground in December. Springtime calls them back to stage, always with that same quiet mathematical elegance. Of course, the human species is no exception. For all our cultural diversity, technical prowess,…