tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32056002024-03-18T22:47:38.230-04:00Today at MeetingbrookWhat's happening at Meetingbrookmeetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comBlogger10658125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-40201480819732841432024-03-18T22:47:00.000-04:002024-03-18T22:47:02.640-04:00off cushion<p>Zen</p><p>Walks</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-58219582540749353252024-03-17T09:02:00.004-04:002024-03-17T09:10:29.450-04:00creatura essere<p> once</p><p>they say</p><p>there was</p><p>nothing</p><p><br /></p><p>out from </p><p>which suddenly</p><p>came </p><p>something</p><p><br /></p><p>whence and </p><p>hence</p><p>we</p><p>arrive</p><p><br /></p><p>out of </p><p>matter's</p><p>watery</p><p><i>religio</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>(conscientiousness)</i></p><p>this appearance</p><p>is <i>mythos </i>some</p><p>call <i>Christos*</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>useful </p><p>this <i>creatura</i></p><p><i>essere</i></p><p>promulgating 'this'</p><p><br /></p><p>which is</p><p>what and who</p><p>we are</p><p>soul surrounding space</p><p><i>... ... ...</i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">*The spelling of the Greek name Χρήστος suggests a derivation from the word χρηστός, which in earlier forms of the language principally meant "useful",<sup>[6][7]</sup> and in modern Greek means "ethical, righteous, good, just, upright, virtuous". <span style="text-decoration: underline;">(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos_(given_name)">wikipedia</a>)</span></span></blockquote><p></p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-52194253162431293962024-03-17T01:41:00.001-04:002024-03-17T01:41:57.595-04:00実体 (jittai)<p>In the night</p><p>Everything</p><p>Is itself</p><p><br /></p><p>Not </p><p>Something</p><p>Else</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why</p><p>We pray at</p><p>Night</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-27411521403431815382024-03-17T01:18:00.002-04:002024-03-17T01:18:31.034-04:00keep this koan constantly<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p>I don't want anything else.</p><p>Just this. </p><blockquote><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">If you wish to bring the two matters of birth and death to conclusion and pass directly beyond the Triple-world, you must penetrate the koan “This very mind is Buddha.”<br />
<br />
Tell me: What is its principle? How is it that this very mind is Buddha? And “this very mind” just what is it like?</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Investigate it coming. Investigate it going. Investigate it thoroughly and exhaustively. All you have to do is keep this koan constantly in your thoughts.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Daito (1282-1334) dz</span></i></p><div><i></i></div></blockquote><div>Nothing else.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just this.</div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-9008787412995107782024-03-17T00:10:00.005-04:002024-03-17T00:32:02.419-04:00from somewhere, this<p> I'll</p><p>always</p><p><br /></p><p>be</p><p>here</p><p><br /></p><p>for </p><p>you</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-61091927899174241582024-03-16T23:39:00.002-04:002024-03-16T23:39:51.928-04:00as years jig by<p>Irish</p><p>I am</p><p><br /></p><p>memory </p><p>of which</p><p><br /></p><p>fades some</p><p>but, still</p><p><br /></p><p>Irish </p><p>I am</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-83924909224316998832024-03-16T17:39:00.001-04:002024-03-16T17:39:06.315-04:00pi forever, pie tonight<p>There are days</p><p>Numbers numb</p><p>Mind</p><p><br /></p><p>I try to help</p><p>But read wrong </p><p>Column</p><p><br /></p><p>Where</p><p>At end</p><p>Nothing adds up</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-36629680426127611372024-03-16T04:35:00.001-04:002024-03-16T04:38:54.822-04:00surfing metaphor<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">A Times review:</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/books/review/christine-blasey-ford-memoir-one-way-back.html">ONE WAY BACK: A Memoir</a></span><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/books/review/christine-blasey-ford-memoir-one-way-back.html"> |</a> By Christine Blasey Ford</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">A swirling gulf between truth and news.</span></span></p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-88395528040489781642024-03-16T04:05:00.002-04:002024-03-16T09:52:13.133-04:00e voilà, moi aussi<p>Who are</p><p>We</p><p>Speaking with</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-50524950171291890422024-03-16T03:31:00.003-04:002024-03-16T03:31:41.382-04:00fuente, procedencia<p>capitulate</p><p>to life</p><p>join the stream</p><p><br /></p><p>recapitulate </p><p>with love</p><p>you are what flows</p><p><br /></p><p>no opposite</p><p>no enemy</p><p>beyond self</p><p><br /></p><p>resound</p><p>return</p><p>to Source</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-76590634118365065472024-03-15T22:21:00.005-04:002024-03-15T22:21:27.107-04:00namen sind nur lärm und rauch<p> If you want</p><p>to know my name </p><p>pronounce your name</p><p><br /></p><p>If you’ve forgotten</p><p>your name</p><p>my name means nothing</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-37123924369978995802024-03-14T21:54:00.006-04:002024-03-16T03:34:13.604-04:00and the leaky barn<p> Everything speaks. </p><p>Everything tells you about itself. </p><p>If you listen. If you hear.</p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: times;">Abandoned Farmhouse</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 180px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2">BY </span><span class="s3" style="text-decoration: underline;">TED KOOSER</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px; min-height: 23.8px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">He was a big man, says the size of his shoes</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">on a pile of broken dishes by the house;</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">a tall man too, says the length of the bed</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">in an upstairs room; and a good, God-fearing man,</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">says the Bible with a broken back</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">on the floor below the window, dusty with sun;</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">but not a man for farming, say the fields</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn.</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px; min-height: 23.8px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wall</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">covered with oilcloth, and they had a child,</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">It was lonely here, says the narrow country road.</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px; min-height: 23.8px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">Something went wrong, says the empty house</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">in the weed-choked yard. Stones in the fields</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">in the cellar say she left in a nervous haste.</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">like branches after a storm—a rubber cow,</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">a rusty tractor with a broken plow,</span></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">a doll in overalls. Something went wrong, they say.</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px; min-height: 23.8px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 108px; min-height: 23.8px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1">—Ted Kooser, "Abandoned Farmhouse" from </span><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic;">Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. Copyright © 1980 by Ted Koos</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">er. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23.76px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p>Can you hear it?</p><p>Each thing speaks.</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-79892583276269709122024-03-14T12:38:00.010-04:002024-03-14T13:05:57.614-04:00homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto<p> Coming off mountain, stopping in yurt to assure it has not been abandoned.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcDeP0KKcRNTDA-nXgae8Qqw6a_Xsn2E2SV-BgY8M656WWsRrND5jHVL8EYtJQj8z0IgMELlUJd_wnY8MK8y_QBna1YTrxWTxWxgJ_wjYvigbL9yqDEaSnG3ggHnhkmge1gVyDGQxvyopQBjIPELQoyff_4L0D9ycva8mV8CyFbSZcWv-VMkp/s4032/IMG_0299.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcDeP0KKcRNTDA-nXgae8Qqw6a_Xsn2E2SV-BgY8M656WWsRrND5jHVL8EYtJQj8z0IgMELlUJd_wnY8MK8y_QBna1YTrxWTxWxgJ_wjYvigbL9yqDEaSnG3ggHnhkmge1gVyDGQxvyopQBjIPELQoyff_4L0D9ycva8mV8CyFbSZcWv-VMkp/s320/IMG_0299.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mountain absorbs tired snow as winter prepares to pass off its stay.<div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp08u4Qu5KwYs2nDAx7xlx9R6ByI3810vzcZNj2MaHvfsD9VbLFkXYjkOupIXD6bnCD8nnHjvf7Nnk-IiwxG1ejzTqBmiBo_BrgsJaRUc-kmuk1iA5T96-ietmEhy-hOvFMxvexeaANqrhHB-4BayNSnKnOHz_W6oQMAgnnqsSbxXn6oKT5rG_/s4032/IMG_0298.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp08u4Qu5KwYs2nDAx7xlx9R6ByI3810vzcZNj2MaHvfsD9VbLFkXYjkOupIXD6bnCD8nnHjvf7Nnk-IiwxG1ejzTqBmiBo_BrgsJaRUc-kmuk1iA5T96-ietmEhy-hOvFMxvexeaANqrhHB-4BayNSnKnOHz_W6oQMAgnnqsSbxXn6oKT5rG_/s320/IMG_0298.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We move on and into the turnabout nature dances.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The author I listen to quotes the playwright Terence:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">“I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.” — Terence</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Cf. "<i>Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto</i>", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me."<sup>[2]</sup> This appeared in his play <i>Heauton Timorumenos</i>.<sup>[3]</sup></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;">Publius Terentius Afer (/təˈrɛnʃiəs, -ʃəs/; c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (/ˈtɛrəns/), was an African Roman playwright during the Roman Republic. </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> -<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence">-wikipedia</a></span></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Every step on brown winter-pressed flattened leaves along trodden path is prayer for what has passed, is passing, will pass.</p><p>I am mindful we are sometimes asked to pray for someone — and we do.</p><p>It is human to so remember.</p><p></p></div></div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-6343168459576788722024-03-14T02:23:00.001-04:002024-03-14T02:29:29.786-04:00night gatha haiku prayer <p> May God be Here Now </p><p>And True —Be With Each Being</p><p>As Way Moving Through </p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-59519548327548007302024-03-13T22:36:00.002-04:002024-03-14T02:27:33.921-04:00hey hey lookie here<p>Winter looks</p><p>Askance</p><p><br /></p><p>Night air through</p><p>Open window</p><p><br /></p><p>Even brown</p><p>Blanket covers itself</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-79646646369225829142024-03-13T14:49:00.008-04:002024-03-13T15:13:04.494-04:00difference with distinction<p>Some call it post-modernism. </p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Cut in thirds, split in half,<br />
How can truth be expressed?<br />
Can one see beyond white clouds<br />
With the naked eye?<br />
The monks still have not come<br />
Back from Mt. Kukkuapada.<br />
The leaves of the sutra<br />
Merely stir a sad wind.</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Daito (1282-1334) dz</span></i></p></blockquote><p>Daito's "sad wind" captures the scent along roadways from either landfill town dump or the new and pungent cannabis facilities that have me looking for the dead skunk on side of road.</p><p>Wikipedia fleshes it out:</p><blockquote><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Postmodernism</b> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Intellectual">intellectual</a> stance or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_modes" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Rhetorical modes">mode of discourse</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Nuyen,_A.T._1992._pp.183_1-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-Nuyen,_A.T._1992._pp.183-1" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Torfing_1999_2-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-Torfing_1999-2" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup> characterized by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Philosophical skepticism">skepticism</a> towards elements of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Enlightenment" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="European Enlightenment">Enlightenment worldview</a>. It questions the "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-narrative" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Meta-narrative">grand narratives</a>" of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Modernity">modernity</a>, rejects the certainty of knowledge and stable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(semiotics)" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Meaning (semiotics)">meaning</a>, and acknowledges the influence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Ideology">ideology</a> in maintaining political power.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SEP-2015_3-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-SEP-2015-3" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-britannica-4" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></sup> The idea of objective claims is dismissed as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Naïve realism">naïve realism</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bryant,_Johnston_&_Usher_5-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-Bryant,_Johnston_&_Usher-5" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></sup> emphasizing the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_conditionality" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Instrumental conditionality">conditional</a> nature of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-britannica-4" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></sup> Postmodernism embraces <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Self-reference">self-referentiality</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_relativism" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Epistemological relativism">epistemological relativism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Moral relativism">moral relativism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_(philosophy)" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Pluralism (philosophy)">pluralism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Irony">irony</a>, irreverence, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclecticism" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Eclecticism">eclecticism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-britannica-4" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></sup> It opposes the "universal validity" of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_opposition" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Binary opposition">binary oppositions</a>, stable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(philosophy)" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Identity (philosophy)">identity</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Hierarchy">hierarchy</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Categorization">categorization</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-6" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-7" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[7]</a></sup></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><span style="font-family: times;">Emerging in the mid-twentieth century as a reaction against modernism,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-8" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Oxford_9-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-Oxford-9" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-postmodern_10-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-postmodern-10" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[10]</a></sup> postmodernism has permeated various disciplines<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHutcheon2002_11-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHutcheon2002-11" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[11]</a></sup> and is linked to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Critical theory">critical theory</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Deconstruction">deconstruction</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Post-structuralism">post-structuralism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-3" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-britannica-4" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></sup></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">Critics argue that postmodernism promotes</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism" style="background: repeat; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Obscurantism">obscurantism</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">, abandons</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" style="background: repeat; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">rationalism and scientific rigor, and contributes little to analytical or empirical knowledge.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#cite_note-12" style="background: repeat; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">[12]</a></sup> </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism" style="font-size: small;"></a></span></p><blockquote style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism</a> </span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;">Justin E.H. Smith in his book <i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178677/irrationality">Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason</a></i>, 2019, writes about the difference between the liar and the bullshitter. The liar knows the truth and seeks to conceal it. The bullshitter doesn't care a whit about truth or lies, only wanting to advance his/her own interests. (Not his exact words.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">In his book, <i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit">On Bullshit</a></i>, Harry G. Frankfurt, 2005, helps us understand the difference:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(46, 46, 46); color: #2e2e2e;"></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;">...Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.</span></blockquote><p></p>
<blockquote><span style="font-family: times;">Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner’s capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit">(Princeton University Press)</a></span></i></blockquote><div><p>Chris, at Tuesday Evening Conversation, brought up "wisdom." There was talk of <i>The Book of Job,</i> there was a slide into talking about "truth" (which Tina corrected), and a variety of insightful comments by Doris, Asha, and Saskia that deepened our uncertainty.</p><p>I recalled the last line of the Serenity Prayer which (for the evening) gave me an anchor to root my bobbing in the rough-wind tide: "...and wisdom to know the difference." Hence, head above water, wisdom for me (at the time) was the rising and falling ability to know the difference between this and that, the false and the true, bullshit and no-shit.</p><p>In this post-modern age there are a lot of folks peddling bullshit, so much so that they make lying seem like a quaint virtue.</p><p>In my cell/room, a wall:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQ4q5vQXHstd5dOE4Ofp3cwsIHynzJeE5FpVonkDBhZwTcqyW5Lx3VyO0v8d4PRwnpddBXzx0hKXE2wi609OyZQlRGcHUvsNCKOyXdYdGuu1RrlXfmdbXUUmlJk_fKY4pry1D2oxeLzy9AK5qq67uvSZa2WbqllInMsw08Kq2ag1neYa0LkPl/s640/Image%203-13-24%20at%202.31%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQ4q5vQXHstd5dOE4Ofp3cwsIHynzJeE5FpVonkDBhZwTcqyW5Lx3VyO0v8d4PRwnpddBXzx0hKXE2wi609OyZQlRGcHUvsNCKOyXdYdGuu1RrlXfmdbXUUmlJk_fKY4pry1D2oxeLzy9AK5qq67uvSZa2WbqllInMsw08Kq2ag1neYa0LkPl/s320/Image%203-13-24%20at%202.31%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up the mountain, run-off from recent rains:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnU00oQp2sWocJLDg7seCnLn5vDc2sIEyubav76uVL65HHHo6fN3iMebgFlkXGjLbU-YYz7XHB8qQemMDaj_TfjxN7yDmw3idhpHwngj7yvdpN-BDuYQDUhNnKeRWBwe4imOvVqWroiXiW1JNdLmKcF1qqfVMQER4Oy1lm0tvJQaHYUpY3u97/s4032/IMG_4257.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnU00oQp2sWocJLDg7seCnLn5vDc2sIEyubav76uVL65HHHo6fN3iMebgFlkXGjLbU-YYz7XHB8qQemMDaj_TfjxN7yDmw3idhpHwngj7yvdpN-BDuYQDUhNnKeRWBwe4imOvVqWroiXiW1JNdLmKcF1qqfVMQER4Oy1lm0tvJQaHYUpY3u97/s320/IMG_4257.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I let go opening at Trappist monastery for retreat some 234 miles away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What I might be looking for, or, what I am looking for, is a lot closer than someone else's monastery, than some other place I used to go to experience succor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Turns out where I dwell is a place of collation and recollection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As is where you are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a difference with distinction.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I love the difference.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvxO4vKZBbunN0vEFziJPDs0S0I4HeJLrTsx9616ScSXeiEEaJjgkhVuTBP33odAE8x8jRgTDVZ8X-TTvI8LqNR23D62fHV5aqhPhDVoekgK6Cu1Ec6GDCb1t0lq8A7-IeN9o6QGRqTFGejqbav6xe8trjZ_4rXlN1s6uDF2eYCKPKS_cbuQV/s4032/IMG_0297.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvxO4vKZBbunN0vEFziJPDs0S0I4HeJLrTsx9616ScSXeiEEaJjgkhVuTBP33odAE8x8jRgTDVZ8X-TTvI8LqNR23D62fHV5aqhPhDVoekgK6Cu1Ec6GDCb1t0lq8A7-IeN9o6QGRqTFGejqbav6xe8trjZ_4rXlN1s6uDF2eYCKPKS_cbuQV/s320/IMG_0297.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div></div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-79253387558172512562024-03-13T00:23:00.002-04:002024-03-13T00:26:35.112-04:00the wisdom (to know and not to know) the difference<p>don't ask me </p><p>about</p><p>truth or wisdom</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't </p><p>know the </p><p>difference</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-16282778068857457222024-03-12T05:43:00.001-04:002024-03-12T05:43:21.404-04:00not me, but others<p> I suspect</p><p>In ten years</p><p><br /></p><p>We’ll look back</p><p>On 2024 election</p><p><br /></p><p>And</p><p>(laugh) (cry)</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-200775746418169962024-03-12T04:38:00.003-04:002024-03-12T04:52:04.271-04:00as night resides<p> No one lives there</p><p>Not for last three years</p><p><br /></p><p>But porch light is on</p><p>And side stairs light</p><p><br /></p><p>They took away mail box</p><p>roadside and work shed</p><p><br /></p><p>shall engines repaired</p><p>tinkered spark plugs </p><p><br /></p><p>Owner doesn’t sell</p><p>doesn’t rent it out but</p><p><br /></p><p>paints and repairs has it</p><p>mowed and plowed</p><p><br /></p><p>I walk past on walks</p><p>Say hi to emptiness</p><p><br /></p><p>Lights on for what </p><p>lights are on for </p><p><br /></p><p>through night</p><p>throughout </p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-3813589216378100632024-03-11T22:37:00.002-04:002024-03-11T22:37:21.418-04:00monday morning<p> in prison today</p><p>good conversation</p><p>the eight of us</p><p>and one sweet dog</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-15893634943434682312024-03-11T22:34:00.003-04:002024-03-11T22:34:54.834-04:00monday eveningwalking cold<div>vacant snow bowl</div><div><br /></div><div>stiff wind</div><div>season ended</div><div><br /></div><div>grey</div><div>sky</div><div><br /></div><div>mountain </div><div>abandoned</div><div><br /></div><div>listening to</div><div><i>Irrationality</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>this time</div><div>we live</div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-78905603838451720912024-03-10T23:23:00.002-04:002024-03-10T23:26:08.030-04:00thank you, thank you<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">I know why there’s so much wrong in the world. The failure to want to become human. Instead so much lust to be rich or powerful, somebody at the expense of somebody else.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">Now I’d like to collect my reward for figuring that out.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">I’ll take it in nickels and dimes.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">Compassion and caring are not that expensive.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: times;">I have a change purse.</span></span></p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-28440044047126558002024-03-10T07:58:00.004-04:002024-03-10T07:59:32.113-04:00qui es-tu; pensée<p>Miracles are not what we think.</p><p>A miracle is that we think.</p><p>What do you think?</p><p>(Take your time. </p><p>World awaits.)</p><p>Tous les débuts sont difficiles.</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-91744338564636708982024-03-10T04:32:00.002-04:002024-03-10T04:33:44.322-04:00μεταβιβάζω*<p> It’s easier to live on the off-side of the clock. No phone calls, emails, texts. No bumping into anyone in the kitchen. </p><p>Stepping to barn door, thin layer of snow on ground. Sound of rain on roof. No cats. No dog.</p><p>Growing up I was a night person.</p><p>Staying at a monastery, night office was most intimate.</p><p>Now, a different version.</p><p>It could be called unsleeping prayer — but that’s a stretch,</p><p>Maybe call it breath-in-the-dark.</p><p>People used to think God wandered through the night.</p><p>I think that night, the solitude of night, is that wherein God has disappeared.</p><p>A worthy place within which to dissolve and devolve.*</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3205600.post-89328355749654350162024-03-10T04:16:00.005-04:002024-03-10T04:16:58.270-04:00time<p> And here I thought it was 3:15AM.</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.com