summer 2024

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Eight: “democratic mindfulness: concept, policy, and practice.”

Though the title is fair, the formality feels like a private joke, because the scholarly register is commonly useless pretense. I want the peak, beyond academic rhetoric: a resort only known through private letters.

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Sept. 4

Day two of being back in campaign commentary mode, seven discussions. More coming soon.

The intensiveness is largely a desire to get away from the externalities of political affairs back into conceptual and aesthetic ventures, but with satisfactory demonstration of a good continuum between political life and the heights which most persons regard as useless, if not elitist
(or hermetic).

What may be a very good way to understand a path from valley
to peak?

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some advice about inquiring and creative life

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Don’t be afraid to show your own understanding to others who seem
to be beyond you. If their opinion is worthwhile, then they’re not condescending. They won’t cause your anxiety to be validated.

Learning never ends for everyone who appreciates their own path.
The integrity of your venture belongs to you, not recognition by others.

And prudent trusting of the other is always worthwhile as one’s default presumption. If trust is betrayed, move on, but prudently trust again.

theming sprouts

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July 11

I’ll elaborate soon, maybe tomorrow, Saturday?, soon, because that’s
the nature of the thing, a sprout, here about that, too.

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July 12

And so I sprouted, sooner than I anticipated yesterday.

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free associations of a nomadic species

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An appeal of gardening types and kinds wanders across distinctions which are integral to my interests, but whose formal integrability isn’t intimated yet.

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