“Each of us has to find our question.”
“You look for it so you can confront the silence of a pure and uncompromising question.”
“Other possibilities in life.”
“Admire from afar, in silence”
–Sarr
AG2023_1033576a or a possibility in life
our last best hope lies in the moment when …
[…]when someone holds the door open for you
and you do a little jog to meet them where they are—walking my dog, i used to see this older man
and whenever I said good morning,
he replied ‘GREAT morning’—in fact, all the creative ways our people greet each other
Eve L. Ewing, eschatology
may be the icing on this flaming trash cake hurtling through the ether.
AG2024_1540970a or In that sweet space
Again, as always, when the shadows fall,
In that sweet space between the dark and day,
I leave the present and its fretful claims
And seek the dim past where my memories stay.
Jessie Redmon Fauset, Douce Souvenance
I lay on my back and wish
I do that now
I wish for good things, all the good, good things
Why not
Elaine Kahn, I Told You I Was Sick.
Sun·Ra ?– In Some Far Place: Roma ’77. 17. Willow Weep for Me (1:45:26 – 1:52:40)
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everything that occurs
“It’s life itself that rejects the investigation’s claim to be all-encompassing.”
“everything that occurs in the human experience is reality.”
– Sarr
Beauty calls forth meaning, order, calm
Tippett: It was actually in your book that I first realized, and I had never thought about this, that the root — the Greek root for the word “beauty” is related to the word for “calling”; to “kalon” and “kalein.”
O’Donohue: That’s right. That’s it exactly.
Tippett: That’s fascinating.
O’Donohue: It is, actually, and it means that, actually, in the presence of beauty, it’s not a neutral thing, but it’s actually calling you. And I feel that one could write a wonderful psychology just based on the notion of being called — being called to be yourself and called to transfigure what has hardened or got wounded within you. And it’s also, of course, the heart of creativity, this calling forth all the time, because, like in the work that I do, trying to write a few poems, you never write the same poem twice. You’re always at a new place, and then you’re suddenly surprised by where you get taken to.
On Being with Krista Tippett, John O’Donohue : The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Original Air Date : February 28, 2008
“Pleasure … can fortify us. The pleasure that is beauty, the beauty that is meaning, order, calm” (RS)
Disappeared from the world, without a sound, a sunset
“The sun was setting. I remember thinking: This is how T.C. Elimane disappeared from the world, without a sound, like a sunset in the ocean.” Sarr
A paratactical end of scene.
“… to generate language for describing deep structure effects in the absence of deep structure causes and origins.” (ML, Lyric form)
Market-mediated landscape
Des grains de poussière sur la mer. Commissariat : Arden Sherman. Fraeme.art
untitled (sharing in a market-mediated access economy-stadium), 2015.