Acknowledging Community: you make my day

There are days in which my ambivalence about this world of virtual community is settled for me, when there’s contact that lets me know other minds are really out there, that I am somehow travelling in others’ ripples (or vice versa). Last week I was jolted out of a nasty funk when I was [...]

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Exit Genesis, Enter Exodus: the art of silence

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
It’s not that study has ceased in the past month. Yes, typing (and knitting) has been constrained by a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome in one hand. But I feel I’ve been holding [...]

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