Enduring Joy
This past weekend has been an endurance of joy. Among other things, I created/published these:
* On Transience, defection and renunciation (In the works for a while)
* (...)
Potlatch Manifesto
Potlatch is a Chinook word that can be used as both noun and verb according to Merriam-Webster, and refers to:
a ceremonial feast of the American Indians of the northwest coast marked by the host's lavish distribution of gifts or sometimes destruction of property to demonstrate wealth and generosity with the expectation of eventual reciprocation (...)
Vacillating between equanimity and anxiety
The title says it all. Some moments I'm at peace, and some moments I'm not. I can flip pretty quickly between certainty and doubt.
This is a good thing. If I stayed in equanimity all the time, I'd never be motivated to change anything. Why change the world when you're at peace with it, when you're loving what is constantly? If I stayed in certainty I'd get stuck in dogma sooner or later.
Yet, perpetual anxiety isn't a productive state (...)
(Almost) Daily Writing: Fired Up!
This daily writing exercise has been quite a bit less daily than I intended. I will be increasing frequency and may start posting some of the dailies in other places, particularly the new Radical Honesty blog.
This morning I heard an excellent interview with Mitch Ditkoff of Idea Champions that can be downloaded here. I'll summarize (...)
Daily Writing: Concordance and the Middle Way
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey
Recently I was doing some research on Heraclitus. I'm particularly interested in the idea of enantiodromia and the concordance of opposites that is suggested in Heraclitus' writings. In the course of that research I ran across (...)
The Risks and Rewards of Relationships
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
- John Muir
Questions about the definitions of parasite vs. predator have been on my mind a lot. Predation is usually the end of an organism's life, and if it hasn't reproduced yet that is also the end of its gene line (unless it happens to be a clone of course). (...)
