Meaning in the mess Challenges us to re imagine our society. Mini societies of the future? What will they be left with, what will our stonelore* be? Documentation storytelling — perhaps this is the ultimate meaning in an unavoidable crisis, change, destruction metamorphosis. “The climate scientists have done our jobs. Now it’s time for theContinue reading “Beauty”
Category Archives: future
Inventions
Think not of then, nor of what could be. Think of now. I dare you. Can you? Consider it as it floats by, untethered, tethering you. Thinking is an invention, no? of our foremothers, of species reconciling past and present into future possibility? No god nor head of state; No hidden truths, no sufferingContinue reading “Inventions”
2020
Is time part of the game? Capital in, capital out, nothing in the middle? No room for humanity, No room for boredom; No room for shame as I sit, anxious, chatting with friends, one part future, one part ashamed of the anxiety itself. Tell me why all this money matters more thanContinue reading “2020”
Politics
I hear a knock from the cellar and call on Ego to answer the door: “Money for the poor?” a young man ponders, “What am I doing here?” and the door is shut, hands still warm. I can handle up to six hundred dollars at a time, enough for rent, some shoes, wine ifContinue reading “Politics”
Be Still
It’s been a while since the clock struck twelve and all the world was quiet– all the past forgiven, no sirens a-screamin, just belief in the silence, in the tears. The sky has cried and so have I to release all this strange human guilt, for puddles aside, we can read all the lies: theContinue reading “Be Still”
Washing Off Fear
Things that scare me: too much movement, not enough time, students failing classes, children falling in line to a code of conduct the state tends to copy from one generation to the next– why can’t they provide bandaids instead for the multitude of broken hearts and wings clipped off before they got to fly, myContinue reading “Washing Off Fear”