AlisonInktober day 6: Golden. Inspired by Elizabeth Bishop's One Art. #inktober #inktober2023 #penandink #hatching #pilotmetropolitan #deatramentisdocumentink #comics #poetry
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Hi! More anon: just getting my sea legs
mappingcat (also shydrae)A sketch of a citrus root weevil (Diaprepes abbreviatus) for #invertober.
I think of Kierkegaard, 19th Century existentialist, as essentially part of the modern world, responding to the stresses of modernity. And so he was. But I just found out, reading his biography, that his father was born a serf in Jutland. (Bound to a church estate; hence the family name, which translates more or less to church-yard.)
The modern world has not been here very long.
I have difficulty thinking about transcendence without using the language of "two-worlds" mythologies (Buddhist and Christian.) It's not that I want to get out of this world. I want to get out of myself. I want to moult. I don't want to be buried alive in the duff of my own dead skin.
Maria PopovaHannah Arendt's classic meditation on the life of the mind, thinking vs. knowing, and the vital difference between truth and meaning https://t.co/qGCJE58ssv
The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [is to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also…
I got my COVID and flu shots yesterday. Expecting to be a bit sore and a lot tired today, I decided to make a very early start on my Inktober drawing. Growing up in Spain, I used to draw Don Quixote and Sancho heading towards the mountains a lot. So here's another one. The windmills in his day were probably dressed with canvas but I love them looking as dilapidated as he is (and poor Rocinante).
#inktober #inktober2023 #penandink #hatching #pilotmetropolitan #deatramentisdocumentink
#inktober #inktober2023 #penandink #hatching #pilotmetropolitan #deatramentisdocumentink
ClareMy son made his first qamutiq. 24 foot. They head out camping tomorrow. So proud. #Nunavut.
Dave BontaBreezy and clear. A deer steps out of the woods, grunting softly to collect her fawn, who comes leaping through the purple pom-poms of dame’s-rocket.
#MorningPorch #naturejournal
#MorningPorch #naturejournal
Chuffed at the posthumous publication of my dad's magnum opus, Peaceful Societies: Alternatives to Violence and War https://www.vianegativa.us/2023/06/peaceful-societies-alternatives-to-violence-and-war-by-bruce-d-bonta/
https://koshtra.blogspot.com/2023/03/bad-algebra-or-why-im-reading-plato.html
Novels offered case studies: what sort of life do you have if you set your heart on this, or cultivate that? Philosophy had no answers, maybe, but fiction had lots of local, provisional ones. So I read fiction, and wandered into literature, and basically made a life of it. Not a bad choice. I don't regret it.
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But I had made a large mistake.