Author: Tim
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Notes on Zen. Like A Crow Collects Pebbles.
I collect here my thoughts on what is called “zen” by western people, like me, and in keeping with the genre of zen writings, in no order. One comment is not necessarily connected to the next, just like your thoughts arise from darkness, speak, then settle back and are gone. ******************************************************************************** Much of the popularity…
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“Les Miserable” (Movie)
Abusus non tollit usum: an abuse of something doesn’t rule out the proper use. We know that’s a long-recognized rule of logic because it has a pedantic Latin phrase. That means the rule is older than your language and mine, which makes it amazing that artists, who should be learned and nuanced enough for…
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What is a Political Party?
There’s this constant obtuseness about how politics works, and it prompts a million words an hour on discussion boards, amounting to nothing. Let’s all grow up. “The Republican Party” is a group of people who have banded together to get political power. To get political power, they use words tactically. One of the words they…
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O Vocative!
When Eckhart taught of inner birthand death I underlined his bookand then I wept into my palm. O vocative! O Christendom!Not like the scribes, that voice. When Tauler taught of inner deathand birth I lay aside his bookand paced my room, to calm. Not like the scribes, that voice.O vocative. O Christendom.
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Sketchbook: Saturday stream-of-consciousness.
You don’t have to have a plan for a sketchbook page. Just start drawing whatever is in front of your face. 27 April 2013.
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Barbara and Her Mother (colored pencil)
From a family photograph, c. 1966. Prismacolor pencil on Bristol Board.
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Conflict of Visions, Left and Right.
Conservative vision of property: If you can’t prove it’s stolen, I own it. Progressive vision of property: You own it till we vote that we own it. Conservative vision of government: How we prevent theft. Progressive vision of government: What we do together.
