Digest #14
eye-catching:
and heaven came down and joy filled my soul
because the sublime I immediately recognised - as days like this
~ Sally Jo M-Cooper
life-building:
Where are the men that we need?
~
ofArt and the Representation of Naïve Physical Correspondence-ism
~ Bastions of Beauty Art Group
inspir-ing (verb):
Wind & Rain - with Magic
How are us men to sharpen each other’s iron in this online space?
~ GrimGriz
We are intersecting at the edges of our sacred canopies and those bubbles get busted when taboos are introduced.
~ Anomie
… we disagree about something, but you know what - that’s all right. ‘Cause very seldom do we believe exactly the same things and follow exactly the same rules. And somehow we love each other anyway.
~ Magic
I definitely did notice one pattern in this corner: Oftentimes it seems to me that people will bring up an issue of How do we do this thing? and it usually is when we’re all already doing it - in the process of doing it. Like How do we get along? We're kind of doing that right now. How do we talk about this? We’re usually talking about that thing already.
So it’s like this self-awareness of looking at ourselves and thinking we're not good enough, that we don’t know how to do it while we're learning how to drive the car. I’m not claiming we have the answers, but I think we're probably a little better off than we’re considering - that’s my hunch.
~ Nechama
But I worry that by focusing so much on what isn’t working, we sometimes forget what is.
If ours is an era of building and rebuilding, what things are worth saving? What things are worth elevating? What things are worth remembering?
~ Bari Weiss (from the article below)
In my experience, it's really easy and obvious to see the dynamic between masculine and feminine and how they are different and how they compliment each other and when they are "toxic" and when they are just different. Especially after Tayo and Neutrino joined. It was beautiful to see. The culture, especially on the internet, acts like it's totally baffling and mysterious. It's not. Here's a model of it.
~ Adrian
Maybe it’s a matter of how are we doing this, rather than how do we ..?
You're already playing the game before you know what the rules of the game are.
Remember Embody
~
~ from Isaiah 61
out of context, but I cannot unhear the resonance here
But they cannot take a memory once it is embedded like this.
Why commit anything—and poetry, of all things—to memory? Certain education specialists stress the synaptic advantages of learning lines by rote, especially when young, though that has been an unfashionable idea for some time. Fortunately, there is another reason, a better reason: a more human reason. Over the course of these short pieces I hope to be able to persuade you, the reader, that it is this reason above any other that counts. Poetry by heart is not just something you can swap out for sudoku.
~ Douglas Murray
Thirty.
~ Boris Pasternak
Why did the story move him, and leave such an impression on me? First is the simple fact that this summoning-up of collective memory allowed Pasternak to leave the stage unharmed. But beyond that, what did it mean? What were the other people in the hall saying?
Steiner had an answer to that. Among much else the message is that what you have up here, in your head, the bastards cannot take. They can rob you, arrest you, disappear you, perhaps even kill you. Perhaps they can kill almost everyone, or at least make a very good try. But they cannot take a memory once it is embedded like this.
~ Douglas Murray
…
…
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d, and sorrows end.
~ William Shakespeare
onramping:
When we reduce God to the purely transcendent
Chad is the DJ for this little corner. Really appreciate the callbacks and the reiteration especially for those of us who listen on the go and you weave the thoughts and reiterate and summarize at the end, just like in a book re-reading a passage.
~