All Blog Posts Tagged 'The' (6)

The shape wanders through the night, one spectral hand held high, searching for the signal. Moans rise from the alleyway below where other ghosts have congregated. Pleas for an RT or a final like whisper forth from throats that haven't the cartilage to form words.



As Stephen lies in…

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When the Romans extended their kingdom into Europe and later into the Levant and North Africa, they did not expand into a vacuum. In these areas existed complex, sophisticated societies with roads, trade, coinage, language, and cultures easily their match in terms of civilizing values - in truth,…

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Today I spent the day going through the "stuff" of my life. Looking to simplify again. It reminded me of an old "bit" and why even when trying not to win the shopper of the year contest you end up with "stuff".

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I sing a song called "when the waters rise"



Here's a live version:





















Lyrics:

It’s started to rain, could go on forever

The puddles grow then join together As the waters rise

With energy a change of current

The trickle soon becomes a torrent And the waters rise

We’ll have to move abandon camp,

where once was desert now is damp And the waters rise

The balance kept…

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Reading Ellul's Propaganda I came to his declaration that individualist and mass societies are in effect the same thing, that the existence of un-integrated individuals is what makes mass society possible. This is the difference between soil and concrete. Soil consists of integrated particles of varying sizes and types existing in "communities" varying by depth and location, all part of a larger living system. To make concrete you must… Continue

This post is an open letter to Vinay Gupta on listening to his Secret Briefing on Global Poverty given in Brixvill last week. It was an eerie experience, listening over my tired old headphones, a cross between picking up a resistance broadcast somewhere in occupied Europe in the forties and… Continue