Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Geniuses and Jesters This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays

Colloquy A La Carte Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. Derek Walcott \

Oh, Yeah? Conversation is a dynamic interplay between each person’s choice to speak or listen. When those choices are conscious and respectful, conversations tend to be more productive and enjoyable. Oren Jay Sofer, When to Speak and When to Listen

Surprise Conversation Chorus                          The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!                                 Richard Greenberg

Chautauqua Chop When you say “old school,” I say “new playground.”

Midrashic Aporia Midrash is biblical exegesis by ancient Judaic authorities, using a mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud. Midrash and rabbinic readings "discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory spaces," writes the Reverend and Hebrew scholar Wilda C. Gafney. "They reimagine dominant narratival readings while crafting new ones to stand alongside—not replace—former readings. Midrash also asks questions of the text; sometimes it provides answers, sometimes it leaves the reader to answer the questions." Wikipedia Iris DeMent, Livin' in the Wasteland of the Free Krista Tippett, On Being 

On Beyond Second Thought There is for me an utterance bare and grand as the colossal chisel of Phideas, or trowel of the Egyptians, or pen of Moses or Dante. R. W. Emerson