Into the world again July 17, 2008
I muse on what it is that we're doing underneath all our business-busyness. I am so thankful that we have chosen to embrace the family as an inseperable part of our lives. The Farmer and the Blacksmith as often as not had the grand opportunity of personally passing the paths which connect us to the earth- to his children. I have been so fortunate as to be allowed in this century of the nuclear family, to guide my childrens' hands to the earth, and nurture in them the intimate and powerful connection that i feel with the earth.
Somehow, somehow, i have been blessed with a life which not only compels me to feel deeply into the materials of the earth by wroughting; but allows me the opportunity to turn over in my hands and mind the artifacts wrought by my brothers and sisters all the way back to the bronze age.
The art of crafting in materials becomes after some experience a way to place oneself in the very cells of material. Opening the skin of the earth and borrowing its red clay flesh to be returned later in entropy- collecting and framing the stones of the earth into vertical cooperation- changing solid to liquid and back, to yield a mechanical structure or a work of art- collecting and sorting and combining growing entities into a daily repast.
Earth, air, fire, water,......flux.
Flux is the electric fire of lightning- the arc of electrical or nuclear passage from one form to another. Flux is the definition of where we (humans) are now. Flux, in its gentler form, is covering the world with our neural connections. It began with a simple wire and a coded impulse- not too long ago. In worldly terms, it was only a moment ago that Tesla was becoming intimate with the flux generated by simple friction. Now, we are more deeply in the flux than we realize.
As a political term, I often refer to "the grid going down". As a survival strategy, I find it absolutely necessary to envision that phenomenon, and attempt to prepare for it. Since I was 22 years old, and "got it"', I have been operating with a dual vision of the future, and concentrating my effort on a "crossover skill set"
I muse on what it is that we're doing underneath all our business-busyness. I am so thankful that we have chosen to embrace the family as an inseperable part of our lives. The Farmer and the Blacksmith as often as not had the grand opportunity of personally passing the paths which connect us to the earth- to his children. I have been so fortunate as to be allowed in this century of the nuclear family, to guide my childrens' hands to the earth, and nurture in them the intimate and powerful connection that i feel with the earth.
Somehow, somehow, i have been blessed with a life which not only compels me to feel deeply into the materials of the earth by wroughting; but allows me the opportunity to turn over in my hands and mind the artifacts wrought by my brothers and sisters all the way back to the bronze age.
The art of crafting in materials becomes after some experience a way to place oneself in the very cells of material. Opening the skin of the earth and borrowing its red clay flesh to be returned later in entropy- collecting and framing the stones of the earth into vertical cooperation- changing solid to liquid and back, to yield a mechanical structure or a work of art- collecting and sorting and combining growing entities into a daily repast.
Earth, air, fire, water,......flux.
Flux is the electric fire of lightning- the arc of electrical or nuclear passage from one form to another. Flux is the definition of where we (humans) are now. Flux, in its gentler form, is covering the world with our neural connections. It began with a simple wire and a coded impulse- not too long ago. In worldly terms, it was only a moment ago that Tesla was becoming intimate with the flux generated by simple friction. Now, we are more deeply in the flux than we realize.
As a political term, I often refer to "the grid going down". As a survival strategy, I find it absolutely necessary to envision that phenomenon, and attempt to prepare for it. Since I was 22 years old, and "got it"', I have been operating with a dual vision of the future, and concentrating my effort on a "crossover skill set"
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