Category: Philosophy
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Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush
“We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or put ourselves to sleep.” Pema Chodron (1996) When Things Fall Apart This short post is largely a personal reflection on barriers that keep us from thinking about the possibility (inevitably?) of social collapse. Unbelievably this is the first post of mine for nearly 9 months!…
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The I and the We
For this week’s post I wanted to share this poem by Adrienne Rich which came to me via Nora Bateson’s facebook timeline (thank you Nora), and speaks to me about one of the tragedies of modernity- the fixation on the individual. In Those Years In those years, people will say, we lost trackof the meaning…
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Where is the Centre of the World? Between your own two feet.
I’m sat in the ‘Ponder’ at my parents home in West Sussex, where I’m based for my Winter Holiday visit to the UK. The wind is whooping around and the blasts of rain on the glass roof and walls sound like pebbles on a tin roof. Mum and Dad are in the cosy living room…
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Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space
‘The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.’” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed 1974 In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the…
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Kinship (a Poem)
Kinship Lima Cat sits at the edge of the kitchen window, Tail a-swishing, Muscles twitching. Hunger brings the be-wintered Chickadees To the feeder, Forays from the surrounding firs and pines. A black-capped bird alights on window ledge Strewn with sunflower seeds. Back arched, Lima tenses; Her eyes fixed and focused, Her paw…
James T Jones 