Archive for Month: June 2024
Knowledge, Narrative and Nuance
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” Confucius “There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative. E.L Doctorow “I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.” Hari Kunzru As a way to recover from the nightmare Read More
Choices and Change – The “Ize” through which we see the world
I’ve been thinking about what it takes to create the conditions for lasting change. For example, many countries around the world have taken on the challenge of promoting freedom, equality, liberty, and justice. While there have been signs of progress in different places at different points in time, it sure seems to me that we have been losing ground lately. As I was reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book, An Unfinished Love Story, it struck Read More
Soft, Slow and Simple
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching “The gentle overcomes the rigid. The slow overcomes the fast. The weak overcomes the strong. Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff, and the soft overcomes Read More
Sensational Experiences
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” Lord Byron “At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still, you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.” Natalie Wood I’ve been sitting on the idea of beginning each day with a series of sensational experiences for about a year, struggling with how to turn the idea into a post. Read More