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Variations on a folly
8/23/12
The night's so unexpectedly cold that I've shut all the windows and am hiding in a tune from the 16th century. Some nights are like that.
From La Folia, a musical cathedral:
La Folia (pronounce as 'lah foh-LEE-ah') literally meaning madness, folly, or empty-headedness is one of the most remarkable phenomena in the history of music. This ( Read more... ) -
All-regret-oh
This is my current musical obsession. I'm (clumsily) learning to play it on my cello (it's just a month shy of a year since I got my first rental cello and started taking lessons).
The second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony - Allegretto. It haunts me. I whistle it while biking. I'm pretty sure I dream it sometimes. The other day I was ( Read more... ) -
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I never hit "post" on this a month-and-a-half-ago ( Read more... ) -
This is what I'm working on
I am trying to catch up on thousands of years of history and social and economic theory to address these questions ( Read more... ) -
This is what community looks like.
It’s getting late and I have a headache and am running out of time to practice cello, so I’ll just write quickly. I want to remember this day. Today I am not alienated or lonely. First I spent about 4 hours engaged in thoughtful conversation about society, history, economics, and social change in a group of 6 at the salon/meetup. Then I got my ( Read more... ) -
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My room is filled with dying moths, my mouth is full of spluttering coughs, and my skin is a cracked, overexposed earth. My heart is a bruised nectarine that was squeezed carelessly by a child. Its sweetness odors the air and you know decay is near ( Read more... ) -
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There aren't enough distractions in all of merry Portland to keep me from feeling what I feel now. -
I am alive.
No doubts wrack me. I am ready to learn and volunteer and engage and create. I am ready to love, perhaps radically. I am ready to see and experience and express, to challenge myself and others, to transform and be transformed. Right now. -
Social philosophy reading recommendations?
Ok, so. I very much doubt that people I met through philosophy still read this, but just in case ( Read more... ) -
Portrait: Deborah
My dear friend Deborah as Dalí with her foliage mustache, based on a photo our friend Robbie took at Eagle Creek:
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