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ThoughtsOf3-based off SAA's
ThoughtsOf3- (found today) that diagnose time in the line.
1/ Wendell Berry, IV
"...If the only time we live
is the present, and if the presentis immeasurably short (or
long), then by the measure
of the measurers we don't
exist at all, ...
letting us live where we are,
as in the deepest sleep also
we are entirely present,
entirely trusting, eternal.
Is it concentration of the mind,
our unresting counting
that leaves us standing
blind in our dust?"
as in the deepest sleep also
we are entirely present,
entirely trusting, eternal.
Is it concentration of the mind,
our unresting counting
that leaves us standing
blind in our dust?"
2/ Fanny Howe, Indivisible
"The present tense is depressed because it pretends that it can extend out to either side; that it can catch a fact as a series of words lined up in the same sentence. The past tense is calm since everything it expresses is already over. The past tense soothes its words into inertia until squalor becomes the past's natural habitat. That's why the past is the future of religion. Religions are fertile like garbage coming alive too. The over-now of the past haunts religion- mourning makes all the people stand up and sing."
3/ Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: November Newsletter
"Saving the Past for the Future"
re-linked ya, homegirl.
ReplyDeletegetting harder for me to think in threes--i'm being too personal. i'll take you as inspiration because i've got to make it at least to 333 posts...
love,
s