Category: Art
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A New Year’s Meditation
Arbiter And CuratorA New Year’s Meditation Akkam’s razor suggeststhat the simplest answeris often correct and the best that seems a good blueprintfor a simple and minimalist lifestylecollecting and keeping onlywhat is truly needed and desired not acquiring for acquisition’s sakenor to lord it over those with ‘less’taking more than one needsseems immoral to me each…
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We Are All Philosophers
We Are All Philosophers I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’. I liken it to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core being optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful, which is encased in hardened and finely honed cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social junk (BS). The thing about…
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Season’s Greetings
Happy Solstice – Happy Yule – Merry Christmas… In this season of light regaining assendence over darkness, of the rotation of the seasons, the resurgence of new life across our nothern hemisphere, may you all find peace, love, and grace in your celebrations and commitments, in all your dealings and relationships. –LE
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Another Memoir Memory
Another Memoir Memory Back in Oberlin (well, Russia Township, just outside of Oberlin), after my first wife left, taking our two children with her, I bought a 350 Honda motorcycle from a friend at work (US Steel at the time), who had been an apprentice machinist with me. He had extended the front fork and…
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Self-actualizatoin
Self-actualization from early youthtried to figure outwho I was andwhere I fit in life’sscheme don’t think Dadreally wanted kidsMom did, but apparentlynot very proud ofher brood fairness an issue tome from an early ageglasses inflicted at threeand a frail form wellinto puberty while peers primpedand preened I ponderedheritage, destinyand self-improvement, yesI did some primping, too…
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Our Social Pyramid
Our Social Pyramid jack of many thingsmaster of nothingnot even myself somewhere in the middlethe distributionnaturally skewed just one of the massesin the pyramid’s basepropping up the elites in their imagined graceentitlement and hubristheir defining face gorging on the fruits ofour labor and sufferingat the hands of their lickspittle sycophantsand cynical thugswith NDA’s and guns…
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Any Gentle Activities
What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? There is a big difference in what I like now and what I thrived on in the past. I prefer walking, riding my recumbent, Tai Chi, gentle yoga, and a little archery. In the past, I loved working out for 2-3 hours in Judo (was a turnament…
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Collective Consciousness
Collective Consciousness according to early psychologistswe are all attached in auniversal unconsciousness but what if it’s not unconsciousbut perspectives of the sameconsciousness pervading all the entire universe a universe of layers and perspectivesfrom so-called ‘matter’consciousness limited and basic to so-called sentientswith more complicated perspectivesmore self-aware perspectives of the conscious universemorality but a means of controlone…
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Relative Time
Relative Time – In Dreamscapes in my early yearshours felt like days anddays like weeks but now, the yearsseem like mere weeks anddays, merely hours in my early yearsi daydreamed a lotespecially in school rather than our dailymind-control ‘lessons’ andconformity rules but now, i still daydreama lot, and relative timeseems the main psychic drain as…
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