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we realize that each time we revisit memories, real or imagined, the distinction between the two becomes less clear; the truth, or “something close to
thanks to the power of posterior information. (In a remarkable insight, the nineteenth-century Parisian poet Charles Baudelaire compared our memory to
Not only do we tend to rewrite our memories according to the narratives we believe in at the moment, we are also easily influenced by word choices e.g
Lost and confused, the map you make up contains prayers for the dead. 7.18.2026 [3]
A listening silence grew and endured finally swelling into a glorious song. 7.20.2026 [3]
We absorb the cost; we excite the atoms; we attend to something fully. 7.21.2026 [3]
A soft craft seems to foreground something you're working on. 7.24.2026 [3]
Trust me when I tell you, what you are missing is not more information, or the correct information, or quality information.What you are missing is you
You cannot know something for which you have no question. … Information that is not an answer to a question is useless. Why would you want to bother
I’m a big fan of the quote - draw the dots today, and connect them tomorrow. being led by your curiosities and interests and values might not make sen
The designers of complex adaptive systems are not strictly designing systems themselves. They are hinting those systems towards anticipated outcomes,
Brian Goodwin taught me that the most important lesson of complexity science is a shift of intention away from prediction and control to appropriate p
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more inte
Each moment we say thanks is a shift in our attention. A shift away from our self-centeredness toward others. A shift away from our problems and diffi
St. Anthony the Great once wondered if there was anyone who had done greater works towards salvation than himself. God led him to a cobbler in the nea
The method of loci is an early recorded instance of such protocolization. Its origins trace back to Hellenic lyric poet Simonides around 500 B.C.E. Th
[anecdote] Consider the soul of St. Macarius. Confronted with a false accuser, he responds with extreme humility and agrees to bear the unjust consequ
In October of 1971, a young law school professor at the University of Southern California named Christopher Stone jolted his bored students awake by a
Maker’s Mark: Terry Maker Seeks the Liminal Through Her Artwork in Ostinatos: Denver artist Terry Maker is part of a new show at Robischon Gallery
Liminal: The final exhibition at Saint Louis University's MOCRA celebrates 33 years of this first-of-its-kind museum and affirms the ongoing engagem
The Queer Comfort of Liminal Space: Recognizing ourselves within liminal spaces suggests that the self is liminal, fluid, and shifting; contradictor
Exhibition: States of Mind Nusrat Khawaja 2.22.2026 The presence of a moon in the paintings suggests the time is night — a time pregnant with
The human institutions built to check power will not be overthrown. They will be bypassed. Their procedures, debates, and rituals will continue, but t
The surest sign that this is an oral epoch is the fact that politics is no longer defined by competing ideologies or policies but simply by slogans.
Much of what we do is immediately authenticated as we do it, stored as data, classified or scored on some sort of scale, and deployed in real time to
Deleuze saw this mutation long before it finished its work. He wrote that disciplinary societies sculpted bodies while control societies modulate flow
There is a kind of soul and spiritual life-force even in inorganic matter such as stones and dust and water.
A. Graham Cairns-Smith once proposed that the first self-replicating systems were clay-crystal lattices. Layered silicates can store pattern defects;
When people today say that “life is returning to silicon,” they’re being half-literal, half-poetic. Computing substrates are indeed silicon lattices e
Stone for them was never dead. It was potential resonance. A block of limestone or granite was a conductor waiting to be tuned. The combination of gol
The Enneagram of Discernment is a triadic map of applied identity: Triad 1—Vocation: the Divine Call of identity, purpose, and direction. Triad 2—Wisd
Scripture as validated by experience, and experience as validated by Tradition, are good scales for one’s spiritual worldview. —Richard Rohr
The trinity of beauty, goodness, and truth is best perceived through the lens of thanksgiving. It is at the center of noetic perception. It forms the
“Who are we?”—the question of identity. “What has God called us to do?”—the question of purpose. “Who is our neighbor?”—the question of context.
[Breach is] the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our proje
[Colette’s daughter sewing and thinking] His [Han’s] tinkering is done with the stuff of thought rather than ‘wires or soldering irons’. The metaphor
A project was said to “ask questions about” or “draw attention to” a topic, without any obligation to formulate conclusions or provide an easily diges
. Large Models are surprisingly effective at abstracting subtle and nonobvious patterns in texts and images. This suggests that such technologies coul
Some researchers even speak of “mythic cognition” in AI – using archetypal narratives as a framework for AI-generated stories increasinglyunclear.m
In emergent storytelling systems, authorship is distributed . The designer or writer creates a system of possibilities and symbols rather than a fi
Alphabetical Diaries’ organizational logic presents a rendering of contemporary life that appears asynchronous, atemporal, and acausal because of its
Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive. “Connection isn’t abou
How do we as citizens put things right? By, as Jung wrote, ‘touching nature from the inside’. Walking in the woods, lying on the grass, swimming in th
Now and again, the place becomes dense with darkening, then a cloud might open and a single ray of light will drench a gathering of stones to turn the
Have you ever felt awe and exhilaration while contemplating a vista of jagged, snow-capped mountains? Or been fascinated but also a bit unsettled whil