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Sask. native magazine launched to counter 'negative' press (2006) Indian Cultural Magazine Makes It's Debut (1970) - See: Terms :: note :: ... one (of many) larger questions - who reads what is written ...

"There are three portions or persons of Eros that have been classically differentiated: himeros or physical desire for the immediately present to be grasped in the heat of the moment; anteros or answering love; and pothos, the longing toward the unattainable, the ungraspable, the incomprehensible, that idealization which is attendant upon all love and which is always beyond capture. If himeros is the material and physical desire of eros, and anteros the relational mutuality and exchange, pothos is love's spiritual portion." ( The 3 Persons of Eros ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... towards a union of the three ...

- See: Terms :: note :: ... with a great act of the will have practiced resistance ...

"But they also wake you up, sharpening your perceptions, making you alert to composition and contradiction, to their spatial anomalies. Again, like characters, they are filled with deception. You might think of them as snares or traps. One glimpses things hidden just under the surface, traces of things buried under the skin." ( Is anyone there? ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... there is an incredible connection between the arts which is rarely explored ...

Set in India against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, Lotus follows the life of a young girl Chulia, a child-bride, who is abandoned at a widow's ashram. There she is forced to live out a life of penitence until death. Unwilling to accept her fate, Chulia becomes a catalyst for change in the lives of the widows. When her friend and confident, the beautiful Chendra falls in love with a young, upper class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden love boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the delicate balance of power within the social caste system of India. Lotus offers an examination of the lives of widows and Indian culture in colonial India but is ultimately a lyrical story of love, faith and redemption. The flower Lotus is symbolic of spiritual attainment and the flowering of human potential. We invite you to this poetic drama full of the colour, music and dance of traditional India. The sun and the moon will take you on a complex journey into the t...

" Guild stressed that the white poppy was in no way intended as an insult to those who died in the First World War but that it was a 'pledge to peace that war must not happen again'." - See: Image :: note :: ... am so tired of war ... when will leaders listen to the people ... please stop sending our children on missions of killing ... why I can't wear a poppy ... a white poppy can be a salvation ...

- See: Theater :: note :: ... thanks to a wonderful warm audience the evening proved to be a deep & rich honouring of the power of collaboration ... Henry, Susan and Harold have graced this world with imaginative landscapes of the human condition bringing tears of laughter, joy, melancholy & meditations on memory ... the jazz of Ray touched the essential musicality of the wordspace creating an expansive breadth and emotional reverie ... special thanks to the invisible behind scene workers ... without their care much of what happened could not have been ... to all present many blessings ...

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"What do we know about the human desire?" ( René Girard | The mimetic desire ) - See: Quote :: note :: ... ideas on violence and religion ... Girard, a thinker on literature, myth and prophacy ... our desires are not original they are mimetic ... language is learned from imitation ... in order to develop spirit you need to catch fire from someone ... spirit is ignited by spirit ... desires are borrowed from others ... the lie of romanticism/the truth of the novel ... most imitation is spontaneous ... culture is organized around sacrifice ... violence against one ... all mythology discloses and disguises a process of scapegoating ... the killing of the substitute victim creates peace ... tragedy is recounting a myth ... to be a real sacrifice without death ... purification of passions ... sacrifice replaced with the telling of sacrifice ...

There, just as reflections appear in a pond, So all the world's sundry phenomena present the paradox of being nothing and yet have presence; They are like phantoms, a mirage, the moons reflection in the water; This is called "devoid of any reality" understand this as a certainty. ( The Story of Wildwood Delights from A Visionary Journey by Longchenpa trans. by Herbert Guenther ) - See: Quote :: note :: ... reflections ... mysteries of living ... a dance in light signifying nothing ... name whispering signifying nothing ... a life lived signifying nothing ...

- See: Images :: note :: ... days before leaving for Australia a look over the river ... the sky opens to her dreams ... wish you wellness & love ...

What is released in the curl of decay is the vein through which we feel a gentleness of archaic wisdom flowing into the earth. And pebbles surround it there watching breathlessly the shrivelling in on ourselves as wrinkles of torn time. - See: Poetry :: note :: ... thanks to Chris @ Parking Lot for his What is held ... a master at cultivating open spaces ... inspiring the release of inner spaces & creating expansive expression ...

""With Oriana Fallaci, we lose a journalist of global fame, an author of great success, a passionate protagonist of lively cultural battles,' declared Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Friday." ( cbc.ca | Provocative Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci dies ) - See: Memorium :: note :: ... had always admired her passion ... her book Letter to An Unborn Child was an unforgettable read ... labelled a prophet of decline she never shied from controversy and lived in courage ... yes "May her memory be eternal" ...

"Time passes; it could be a few days or a millennium. Someone digs them up and holds their skull in hand and wonders: what was the dig like then? There is nothing wrong with the newer future. Those who make it work for them will be powerful and rich. But that older future seems to have more room in it for those quiet, dry-eyed men. And I know I want, someday, to join their group as it stands frowning around a steaming car engine, each trying to figure out what went wrong." ( FTrain.com | Men standing around broken machines ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... the long now ... Paul Ford was one of the first i read in posted writings ... there is a charm, eloquence & wry humour ... & a depth of human spirit ... we need that in all times ...

... dipping into the blue vexing learning ... seeking , attempting, failing, reflecting, succeeding, practice ... do i have the courage to unlearn to teach ... & without love what do you have ...

"By dividing the interpretation of an art work into several distinct "levels" it becomes possible to recognize a fundamental distinction between digital and non-digital art works, as well as realize the underlying ideology is based upon the illusion of infinite resources; as such it replicates the underlying ideology of capitalism itself -- that there is an infinite amount of wealth that can be extracted from a finite resource. It is an illusion that emerges in fantasies that digital technology ends scarcity by aspiring to the condition of information. The digital presents the illusion of a self-productive domain, infinite, capable of creating value without expenditure, unlike the reality of limited resources, time, expense, etc. that otherwise govern all forms of value and production." "Digital forms also exhibit what could be called the "aura of information" -- the separation of the meaning present in a work from the physical representation of that ...

"The eye of the artist concentrates on his pencil, the pencil moves - and the line dreams." ( apparently spoken by Paul Klee found in the pre-text of David Zinder's Body Voice Imagination: A Training for the Actor ) - See: Education :: note :: ... oh the delicate balance of work & play, control & release, freedom & discipline, trust & trust ... i have so much to learn while making so many mistakes ... am grateful my students & colleagues are so forgiving ...

"If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there." - Loren Eiseley ( the sunflower forest ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... seeking refuge & sanity standing on the bank of the Saskatchewan seeing over the river at twilight ...

"informal learning is: * deep and pervasive (representing over 80% of learning that occurs in organisations) * uncontrolled (most is through colleagues and self discovery - without the training department in sight) * powerful (this is the driving force of the real learning culture of the organisation, influence this and you will radically change the way your organisation learns)" ( mousemusings | informal learning ) - See: Education :: note :: ... thanks to my students & colleagues ...

"Along time ago in China there were cities with high walls surrounding them, with huge, magnificent gates. The gates weren't just doors for letting people in or out but had greater significance. People believed the city's soul resided in the gates. Or at least that it should reside there. It's like in Europe in the Middle Ages when people felt a city's heart lay in its cathedral and central square. Which is why even today in China there a lots of wonderful gates still standing. Do you know how the Chinese built these gates?" "I have no idea," Sumire answered. "People would take carts out to old battlefields and gather the bleached bones that were buried there or that lay scattered about. China's a pretty ancient country - lots of old battle grounds - so they never had to search far. At the entrance to the city they'd construct a huge gate and seal the bones inside. They hoped that by commemorating them this way the dead soldiers would c...