February 22, 2023

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Broken.

In the past four weeks the theme of both broken and especially, breaking, has been in the forefront of my spiritual and cognitive contemplations. The week of the end of January/beginning of February felt especially significant. I’m only willing to articulate here the tip of the internal iceberg and summarize that the time period since then has been marked by an intentional cleansing of my home, heart, soul and life of some particular material items that I sensed had representative...

Bluegrass Meets Hebrew-Formed Sound!

I get a bit excited when I discover a new musical group to incorporate into my Spotify and its various playlists. Since I am not a radio listener, the mechanism for my new discoveries come by way of YouTube suggestions. While there is a tremendous amount of online-bad in having our preferences, interests and other internet explorations monitored, the usage of my algorhythm to introduce me to music I like is actually welcomed. (It should be noted that YouTube in...

Understanding and Recognizing the Straw Man

Recognizing the set-up of a straw man which one can easily then knock down in a seemingly-logical argument is a valuable skill. I can’t say I can immediate recognize/identify/verbalize the straw man when I see or hear him being constructed. I’m not always quick on the uptake but often my mind/gut will tell me something is wrong here in the logic long before I can pinpoint it. This talk is interesting since they identify/deconstruct a particular straw man argument recently...

Uncontrollable Dancing

There’s a lot of weird things in this world, and sometimes we get to read about the mysterious and somewhat inexplicable. A couple of times in the past months I’ve been listening to talks that revolve around mass hysteria and social contagion, and the Dancing Plagues of the Renaissance were mentioned. Just the name of it and the brief description piqued my curiosity. I love certain types of dance–and dancing and movement have always connected with me. The idea that...