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a part of our being
The land is not really the place (separate from ourselves) where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies. It is not a means of survival, a setting for our affairs….It is rather a part of our being, dynamic, significant, real. It is our self. – Paula Gunn Allen. “Iyani: It Goes This Way.”…
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focal things
The German-born American philosopher Albert Borgmann (1937-2023) described two contrasting phenomena: devices and focal things that were based on Martin Heidegger’s concept of Gestell (or enframing as it is known in English). Borgmann uses an old hearth as an example of a focal thing. A hearth is designed to heat a building, but it also…
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abà
We continue to discuss the nature of this project and work and the ways in which how it is called reflect that emerging and adapting work. Below is some text about one possible name: Abà. As we slowly begin to understand this place we are caring for, words start to matter differently. In Sassarese – the…
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fire is stored sunshine
From 1983’s BBC TV series “Fun to imagine” here’s Richard Feynman discussing fire. we know that oxygen and carbon stick together very tight. How is it that the tree is so smart to manage to take the carbon dioxide, which is the carbon [and] oxygen nicely combined and undo that so easy? Ah life, life…