Very impressed by this guy.
Listened to him being interviewed here:
An agricultural insurgency — Thursday 11 January 2018
This all sounds too good to be true. But I do trust him!
Looks like we can manage the anthropocene.
Very impressed by this guy.
Listened to him being interviewed here:
An agricultural insurgency — Thursday 11 January 2018
This all sounds too good to be true. But I do trust him!
Looks like we can manage the anthropocene.
Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond
Heard about this on Shrink Rap Radio where Dr Dave interviews the author/editor Mark Winborn. Worth listening to.
I had to get the book, it is a sort of meditation on the nature of the relational space. It focusses on therapy, but this would be so relevant for those of us who consider that the marriage is the therapy.
How language shapes thought – All In The Mind – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): “It’s been controversial for centuries but new empirical research suggests that language has a powerful influence over the way we think and perceive the world. Lera Boroditsky from Stanford University suggests that Japanese and Spanish speakers have a different sense of blame, and some Indigenous Australians have a different sense of space—all because of the language they speak.”
İSTANBUL PSİKODRAMA ENSTİTÜSÜ – an interview with Zerka Moreno 2000
(it is on that link but takes a bit of perseverance to find it.)
I was intrigued by the ideas about couple therapy. Pre marital clarifications of expectations.
Loved this discussion:
Bryan Boyd Interviewed by Kim Hill
Here is the book:
I will read the book. But as I listened I was burning to join in on the discussion. I have since my days studying under Prof. Robert Bigelow in the late 60s at Canterbury had an understanding of “gene pools”. The concept makes sense of how some things might benefit the survival of a species even when individuals do not have more babies.
Brian Boyd touched on this lightly in the interview, I’ll be interested to see if he does this more fully in the book.
The point is this: if lyrical poetry (or anything else) is useful to the group then only a few need to have a gene for it, and even if they individually don’t have more babies, the group as a whole might survive and a neighbouring group who does not have that gene in their pool might not.
I’ve been thinking about this in relationship to the purpose of monogamy. It seems that it has a special place in healing wounds from childhood. But this typically does not happen till after the crucial childbearing years, in the second reflective half of life. I think of the powerful impact even one or two healing couples can have in a group. They can foster relationship education as well. They might influence psychological health, and more robust grandchildren.
PS
Bigelow’s book here: Amazon – The Dawn Warriors
I’ve been using Pocketcasts on the iPhone. First one I’ve liked in all these years. The iTunes one never satisfied and the way I used to do it – was clumsy. But it worked and was essentially what did on the Palm.
Casts (as it also gets called) has a sharing function so I can easily pop them inhere from time to time. — though not the full audio. So the links might no work. When there is one I really want I’ll post the whole thing. The pocket cast links work only on the iPhone (or Android?) if you have the app.
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Are Computers Creative?
Studio 360 from PRI and WNYCEpisode:
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/ttW4ML
I did follow this one up:
I liked this show. Why dpi these AI programs never use the Internet, Wolfram Alpgha etc? Siri creates its own search … I think the big breakthrough will come when they link all of these things – the music – art and writing and all search through some higher entity.
I just noticed the words “higher entity” I just mean a meta engine. Ha.
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RNZ: Saturday MorningEpisode: Kim Hill
Chris Szekely – Rahui and libraries
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/s6Ur45
I like this and I have the book!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1110/S00196/rahui-an-exceptional-new-childrens-book.htm
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WeAreMany.org
Ways of Seeing: The Art Criticism of John Berger
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/ODAn7Y
All the talks at the Chicago socialist conference are here. I like some of them.
Listened to this just as I was given this book
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RNZ: Saturday MorningEpisode: Kim Hill Saturday Morning 19 May 2012
Art with Mary Kisler – Angelica Garnett
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/7TLKXO
I like stuff about the Bloomsbury group. Bohemians.
I now have the Kindle Sample”
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Mac Power UsersEpisode:
Mac Power Users 56: Mail
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/1s4pG1
Very long and a bit boring but what a resource if you want to understand Mail on the Mac.
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Without the art Gallery out of action this is a wonderfully innovative exhibit. I was moved to see that with many of these buildings gone, their heritage can survive.
Now I wonder how much wabi sabi influenced the work of Jackson Pollock and those whom bought calligraphic ideas from japan like Mark Tobey
Autumn Field
1957
Mark Tobey
Born: Centerville, Wisconsin 1890
Died: Basel, Switzerland 1976
tempera on paper
sheet: 47 x 36 in. (119.4 x 91.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
1968.52.23
Not currently on view
http://artistsjournal.wordpress.com
I am always impressed by the enthusiasm this artists has for her simple abstract images. Inspiring.
It must be a lot of fun to play with paper and glue, and come up with these fairly small collages. (this one is 8″ x 8″)
I like this poem by David Dominguez.
And I found images of the portrait, and the watermelon paintings as well.
Wedding Portrait
Yesterday afternoon, I hung a framed print in the living room—a task that took two head-throbbing hours.It’s a wedding portrait that we love: Frida and Diego Rivera.I wonder how two people could consistently hurt each other,but still feel love so deeply as their bones turned into dust?Before Frida died, she painted a watermelon still life;before his death, Diego did too.I want to believe that those paintings were composedduring parallel moments because of their undying devotion.If I close my eyes, I can see melon wedges left likecenterpieces except for the sliceDiego put on the table’s corner—one piece of fruit pecked at by a dovethat passed through a window.I know that I won’t be building a bookshelf anytime soonand that the chances of me constructing a roll-top deskare as slim as me building an Adirondack chair that sits plumb,but I’m good with the spackle and putty knives in my tool belt.The knots in my back might not be thereif I had listened to her suggestions,and I could well have done without two hours of silenceover a few holes in the wall.But somehow, life has its ways of working things out.This afternoon, I shut the blinds,turned off the TV, lights, and phone,and massaged my wife’s feet to fight off a migraine—her second one this week despitethe prophylactics and pain killers that we store in the breadbox.For once, I’d like to experience what she feels:nausea, blindness, and pain that strikewhen the cranial vessels dilate,fill with blood, leak, and make the brain swell.Earlier, an MRI triggered the reaction as it mapped her headwith electrical current, gradient magnets, and radio waveshammering her floundering eyes.For now, we have our room, the bed frame, and the mattresswhere she lies as I knead her toes.Come nightfall, I hope that we’ll sit in the patio and watchthe breeze stirring the lemon, lime, and orange treesthat I planted along the back fence.On certain nights, the moon turns our lawninto green acrylic where we sip Syrah and mint teauntil all we know is the soundof our breathing among the whispering leaves.
David Dominguez, “Wedding Portrait” from The Ghost of Cesar Chavez. Copyright © 2010 by David Dominguez. Reprinted by permission of C&R Press.
Perhaps this was the portrait: