Monthly Archives: August 2012

On the Necessity of Being an Individual

“The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement./Nature always produces individuals.”–Lydia Maria Child, Letters from New York–second series (1845) ‘Connection’ is a desirable aspect potentially achievable with the dead and living, and via the real, fictional, and … Continue reading

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And so lately

I choose this island and its freedom from false face. I select a landfall apart from the swell and tides of others. I claim this lone strand for the Dominion of Self. Unattended by minions, I live without the cant … Continue reading

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Individual Process, Briefly

  Life being largely about the impact of the world on an individual. Beginning with the flow of images, sounds, language, feelings, thoughts–various information via lived experience. Received, filtered, organized, processed by the individual’s senses, body, mind, feelings via imagination, … Continue reading

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Introduction

There is a certain inevitability to this site given how suddenly and dramatically the world has changed, how e-media has offered new and different audiences for whatever shared writing, and my own drift of aging consciousness ready to ‘go on … Continue reading

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