Month: July 2023

• What really happened?

  Tell me, what are you supposed to do when there’s more than one version of the same event: when you have multiple choices? Tell me what you are supposed to think when there are  a variety of remembered histories, each claiming its own validity, its own proof. If it was a tale of conquest, a…

  gozzter

  July 26, 2023

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  alternate truths, Aztecs, history, Plato, revisionist history, Thermopylae, Weltanschauung of an era.

• Quiet needs by sun and candle-light

  I have to admit I’m puzzled. Does anybody really understand emotions? Some of them seem untetherable, others simply unpredictable, arising as they do from the fog of Life. And yet, as separate as states such as hate, anger, love, sadness and joy claim to be, they do share features such as spontaneity and lack of…

  gozzter

  July 19, 2023

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  agency, Alexandra Gustafson, biobehavioral synchrony, complexity, Dr. Anna Machin, E.J. Pratt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, emotions, love, Oxford University

• Will this look of thine hurl my soul from heaven?

  ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned’, wrote Yeats in his magnificent poem The Second Coming. That’s how I feel sometimes, when I think about the things I was taught and came to accept. Came to expect, because what we see is so often laden with expectations. We accept what our culture paints, so we are…

  gozzter

  July 12, 2023

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  Age, ancient Romans, Black Lives Matter movement, Canada's First Nations, culture, democracy, eras, evidence, expectations, history, race, skin colour, The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, Winnipeg

• The art of finding the mind’s construction in the face

  During Covid, I found that I sometimes had the most interesting conversations when I didn’t mean to. Most people hear, but fewer listen unless you make eye contact with them; this was often difficult when I was standing in those little socially distanced footsteps painted on the floor of the grocery store checkout lines and…

  gozzter

  July 5, 2023

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  backs, conversations, Douglas Harding, faces, masks, meditation, Mind, On Having No Head, pandemic, philosophy, social distancing, things, true nature, Zen