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Subtly concealed within our traditional usage and purposes in language are vast terrains of presumptions… of value, identity, limitation… and potential. For most us, this will remain a strange internal sense of something being wrong in our relationships...

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It struck me that the opposite of anything I might consider authentically ceremonial… might be its description. Or even… a recording or photograph.

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Our species has roles we’ve long forgotten; though one might recover them from relating with animals and infants… And these potentials are more astonishing than the sum of our fictions and visions… But we also have allies. Beings nonordinary, whose...

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From 2014: Other Genius: Sharing the prodigy of common others we know. “The media are the main purveyors of the violence and protests erupting around this country as it’s their agenda to instigate and fan flames. Police brutality is not a new issue,...

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The forces that oppress the people… are fictions of absence. ‘They’ are not a they. They more resemble the repercussion-bodies of our failure to establish any kind of ‘we’ that is actual, mutual, intelligent or true. “They”...

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“I hear some people talking about life the way guys talk about toolboxes. And then there are others who are so on fire they can barely speak. Hammers really have nothing to say about kissing. And kissing has nothing to do with toolboxes.” —...