Tag: soul

• Seek not for whom the bell tolls

  Do you ever put something away for safe-keeping, only to find it has changed in the interval since you last looked? Retirement can be like that: hanging a once comfortable identity in a closet somewhere, and discovering it no longer fits when you try it on for old times’ sake. Not only that, but the…

  gozzter

  May 1, 2024

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  feelings, identity, memories, soul

• Oh for a Muse of fire

  I have begun to wonder whether the creative Muse as we have known her is entering a phase of terminal cognitive decline or is just in the process of changing her clothes -trying on a different wardrobe because she sees new possibilities in the styles hanging in a stranger’s closet to which she’d never had…

  gozzter

  March 5, 2024

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  art, artificial intelligence, Muse, pictures, Quaerimonia, soul, stories, writing

• Ich und Du?

  When I was a child, I had no inkling of cultural appropriation. I eagerly dressed as the cowboy Roy Rogers, and enmeshed myself in what I mistakenly assumed were aboriginal customs of dress and philosophy; I once (and, it must be stressed, unwillingly) played the role of a girl in a Grade 4 school play…

  gozzter

  September 7, 2022

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  appreciation, colonization, cultural appropriation, cultural ownership, First Nations, I and Thou, Ich und Du, identities, imitation, Kahlil Gibran, Martin Buber, Nature, philosophy, R.G. Smith, soul