Category: meditation
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When I’m running low on food…
When I’m running low on food, I leave my coat and keys where they are. I have a look around and spend another day and then another with what I have around me. I mix them all around me and make my mouth anew. “Make do with what you have?” No, savor whatever passes through your hands.
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Ben-Zvi Heller on otter coves
The following poem by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller originally appeared in The Common No. 1 (March 31, 2011) on p. 99. Read the final two lines a few times. Lovely. Otter Cove I took three stones from there: one from the water one from the sun and a small one to grow. Co-translated by the poet and…
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Good art is good for much: An end to the problem of funding
I knew nothing about improvisation until a few days ago, but for some time I’ve latched onto the idea that the philosophical conversations in my philosophy practice have been shading into territory laid open by improv. So when I spoke with Alex Fradera, a friend of Dougald’s who finished his Ph.D. in psychology and who now…
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Friday meditation: On the alchemy of reconceptualization
Fine phrase this. So what’s this (he consults his piece of paper) ‘alchemy of reconceptualization,’ as you call it? It’s an ongoing process of making sense of one’s life. It involves surveying the parts of your past and transforming the self. Bear in mind that it’s not a one-off, and yet there are rest stops…
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The hardness and the softness of philosophical practice
“Whitman’s central image, the leaves of grass, a form of life that perishes but rises again and again out of its own decay” (231). –Lewis Hyde, The Gift “Anything I have I bestow.” –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself There is a hardness as well as a softness to the philosophical life. Like leaves of grass,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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