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Words to Ponder

02 Dec

Posted at 03:50h in Culture, I Like This, Words to Ponder

From Pablo Neruda's magnificent book of poems, Odes to Common Things, is this beauty (in English thanks to translator Ken Krabbenhoft). “Ode to the Spoon” Spoon, scoop formed by man’s most ancient hand, in your design of metal or wood we still see the shape of the first palm to which water imparted coolness and savage blood, the throb of bonfires and the hunt. Little spoon in an infant’s tiny hand, you raise to his mouth the earth’s most ancient kiss, silent...

17 Dec

Posted at 00:37h in Creativity, Words to Ponder

I don't read very much poetry, so I'm new to the work of Alberto Rios. So far I love the poems of his I've read—and these words I've been pondering.  "I have been around other languages all my life, particularly Spanish, and have too often thought of the act of translation...

22 Jan

Posted at 02:32h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Words to Ponder

These words, written twenty years ago by renowned social constructionist Ken Gergen, are surely worth pondering today. "In important degree, identity politics is a descendent of Western, individualist ideology. It is not the single individual who commands our interest in this case; rather individual identity is conflated with group identity. Individual...

05 Jul

Posted at 20:22h in Creativity, What's New, Words to Ponder

Today's words are from the improv pioneer Viola Spolin from over fifty years ago “Motivation is limited and subjective, it cuts the players off from ongoing stage life, and it implies that you have a reason for everything.” “Words can easily become labels, dead and useless.  The word or subject matter should...