Month: March 2012

• March 20, 2012

  Ramble re: rest

  Auto-reply on: March 18 to March 19. Subject Line: Ramble I’m spending the day upstate. Rousseau would call this a reverie. Attending to the natural world seems to me a necessary feature of leading a philosophical life. I should be back in town by the evening; I’ll reply by Tuesday at the latest. Kindly, Andrew…
• March 19, 2012

  Notes on the Milonga: An essay in improvisational dance

  The following is a poem or poems that my friend Carolyn and I wrote late last week. Carolyn’s contribution is in black, mine is in teal. The theme nestled, three-fold, is the following: how will women live today, how will men do so, and how will they (we) live radiantly together? You know that our…
• March 17, 2012

  On the ‘profound de’: An excerpt from David E. Cooper’s Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective

  The following, 10 lines down below the hash marks, is an excerpt from David E. Cooper’s Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective (Green Books, 2012), pp. 76-7. In the Daoist tradition, the sage was someone who lived according to the Way (dao). But how was he to do so? The sage cultivated “profound de.” De can be…
• March 16, 2012

  If life is brought into question

  If life is brought into question, then life has been carried forth into a space in which it is now open to inquiry. This is a marvel. It is also a glory. Life, before being brought into question, had been stuffed with periods, the tedium of periods, the slumber of dogma. But now life, itself…
• March 15, 2012

  Restless mens (L.): Three E verses

  I.   Clever men bleed well: they’re feted, fed senselessly, sent every rendered wench, end effeted, well-spent, seceded.     II.   Agreed! Sempre, the terms severed, they were sentenced hence: ever rent yet never freed.    (Dern! Derned, derned severe!)     III.   The tree bends, The reed-wren flees, The wereful sheep descend. Pebbles…