Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Edge Effects I like "multi-"...multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement. Rossana Condoleo

And And And What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Octavio Paz David Francey, Torn Screen Door The Bills, Nowhere To Be & All Day To Get There 

As We Speak This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. Toni Morrison

Brief Windows Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Carl Sandburg Prayers of Steel

Interconnecting . . . Dots The relations . . .   constitute the essence. Nietzsche

Interesting Times Perception is to a much greater extent than previously imagined, a function of the linguistic categories available to the perceiver. As we said, reality is a perception located somewhere behind the eyes-- but, "behind the eyes" there is a language process . We know that Nature never repeats or standardizes - we do it. And how we do it depends on the categories and classifications of our language system. It is only a slight exaggeration to say we see with our language. Postman & Weingartner Teaching As A Subversive Activity

Unorthodox Talks In the language is life. Hawaiian Proverb Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. Tolkien