smart living: given to enactive fulfillment

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This goes forward beyond the last section of “...belonging...to belong,” (on being merely “social”).

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reality not chosen, reality I choose to prospect

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There’s no admirable point to political anger unless it leads to actionable valuation….This discussion is an outer worldly sidetrack from a project for tomorrow which is inner worldly, but highlights inner/outer liminality.

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Time gives gravity to prettiness where beauty emerges

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Airy living, 15 years ago, “soothing W. H. Auden,”
on extra-ordinary life.

That page hasn't been public. It was done for a beloved friend, Terese, whose eidetic memory penned Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" perfectly for me during a lunch.

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easily casual, easily alien

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This is the first part of a new five-part set oriented by the notion of belonging: being chosen to belong in relation with choosing to belong. It becomes very analytical, as aliens may.

In coming weeks, I expect to post more frequently than in recent months—and again before Dec. 21, I expect.

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autumn 2024

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Well, I am ready to add more, at last—a new beginning, in a sense—but that’ll take a few days.

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Nov. 23…Nov. 30

Closer, but not ready to add more; not frustrated, very enthused. A flow of regular sharing is immanent, next week I expect.

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Nov. 17

I avoid chronic anomie (if not mild depression) from daily news—
the suffering of so many regions—by immersing myself in development of my writing projects, hours every day, largely for the love of doing it. I haven’t put a lot online lately, but there is much in gestation.

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Extra!: literary scholar felt stalked

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Courage, follow a little autumn course into dark lightly.

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some of these days

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Life is strange, often beautiful, then you die, of course.

Not that I will be missed,
“honey.”

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a hallowing day

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I’m going to get you!

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a philological sense of Our evolving

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A famous biologist called Us “the poetic species.” I agree.

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writing life, a gain

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For some persons, life becomes text: aural, visual, written.

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summer 2024

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Finishing “for the best of America” feels like a closure on giving attention to the presidential campaign of “Ours,” in keeping with
what I noted below for Sept. 4.

Now, back to engagement with practical conceptual interests (which will result in more postings before Sept. 28).

And good-bye summer.

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Sept. 9

Life goes on, as time allows, be it showing marks, letters, history, or
the importance of words for binding us in kindred belonging.

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for the best of America

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My sense of “being a Democrat 2024” is basically about a personal life being well enough to be politically relevant, through interpersonal and cultural engagement.

Ours

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Here’s a short discussion, relative to the now-forgotten (?) Democratic National Convention, about the importance of words for binding us in kindred belonging.

That will be followed soon by a discussion of DNC specifics for a progressive realism.

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marks, letters, history

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email to an art exhibit reviewer.

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life goes on as time allows

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Morning. Coffee—well, lots of stuff between waking and coffee.

Checking email: A “mistaken” solicitation from Texas to survey my tractor experience (re: my lawnless urban street) escaped automatic routing to my spam folder. The option to unsubscribe could be a trick to route me to an automatic malware download from Russia or China or Iran. Such is living with political aggression in the metropole. (Such is my fantasy that I matter enough to be phished.)

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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spring 2024

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“Bloomsday for greater humanity” honors this highland day.

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love of minding

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being there: Of thering about conceptuality.

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integrity of oneSself as neologist

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Flourishing of oneSself is, at best, a balance of [a] open receptiveness and apt responsiveness of oneself with others (genuine living of s/p differentiality) with [b] the same of oneself with Selfality (authentic living of S/s differentiality).  

Authenticity and genuineness of flourishing lifepsychalness belong together in the same hopefully exemplary lifecycleness.

So goes my integrity of neologisms.

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reverie of heartfulness

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This isn’t sentimentalist. It prospects a concept of background (deep) Self.

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being with, immanently

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Two discussions—“immanent being in time” and “being with ‘you’”—sketch senses of “interal” belonging of differentiations, from proximal phenomenality to complex interpersonal life. No sentimentalism.

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“genesis“: retrojective articulation of being

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Fun title, easy reading (mostly). It’s about immanence (Flow) of feeling phenomenality.

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resort

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Everyone wants a good story. This is about awing want.

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being person-al: beyond what They say

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My discussion of person-ness here follows from the second part of “It’s phenomenal” (April 22) about living experience. Its repeat of earlier themes is in a circumspective context of others’ standard views on being a person which will be analyzed later.

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It’s phenomenal

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A large-scale project begins today with a set of three discussions under the title “It’s phenomenal,” which isn’t a self-promotional title, rather a denotation of its overall topic. The first of the three is titled “manifold living,” The bottom of that page links to the second, bottom of the secon to the third, and all are listed on the main Project page (upper left button of each discussion page).

here now the dead

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One’s life can exemplify the virtue of authentic being, even when
not yet influencing heirs. Thinking of lives generally may reaffirm
a virtue of being for the humanity of caring.

So: a little sermon for Our grand story.

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springularity

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So, sing, you spring.

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is the Singularity nearer?

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Inquiring minds want to “No!”

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winter 2024

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No update apart from what I noted today at gedavis.com.

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Mar. 2

The posting on Derrida has no obvious relation to recent obsessions about better humanity, but it’s all part of the same Project: humanism, humanities, conceptual literary interest, interest in textuality, though that series is a stretch—abstract. Yet, a reader wants enhancement of their sensibility through arts, and arts are commonly matters of our humanity.

I’ll have better updates soon.

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postcard from the conceptual resort

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I’m with Jacques Derrida in fascination with our possible presence together here, i.e., through textuality, which is from me to an invented other, but also somewhat (inevitably) inventing the actual other in conscientious address. And the other—anonymous reader, loved one—somewhat invents the author.

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appeal of better ways

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A discussion I put online earlier this month, titled “To shape a better understanding to share, where should we begin?,” immediately dissatisfied me. So, I reconceived the thing, now posted as two discussions: 

•  “orienting life in relation with futuring humanity,” a couple of days ago. See the playfully titled “deep time...” posting below here, Jan. 24.
• today’s “appeal of better ways.” It constellates an array of themes for more specific attentions later. It’s a good synopsis of what I’m generally doing for my “project of humanity.”

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deep time of appellant horizons might show enthralling gravity

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“Orienting life in relation with futuring humanity” is inspired by how education undermines consumerism, undermines the appeal of authoritarian stances, and welcomes appreciation of manifold mindfulness.

Also, my discussion introduces a scalar sense of holism which is generally important for “The Project currently.”

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coming to terms

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Desire for new concepts—which I’ve not hesitated to satisfy—follows from working beyond the normal uses of standard concepts. That’s common in philosophical work, but easily seems hermetic.

The past couple of weeks offline have been very fruitful, in terms of more new concepts and advancing earlier themes. I love my days!

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the ensemble will now entertain you

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You poor things.

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being figurative is normal, for good reason

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“Meaning of significance: part 1” begins a venture about there being texted presence between author and reader which is usually figurative (showing implicature) manifoldly. A speaker/writer is figurative be-
cause being understood is normally wanted more than expressiveness.

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lifecycleness

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“‘lifecycleness,’ so to speak” prospects a felicitous neologism for exploratory conceptual work.

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autumn 2023

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No update, but you see below (Nov. 23, 24, 25) that a lot has appeared during the past couple of weeks. I expect a lot more to share this month.

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empathing toward Andromeda

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This is proximally about creative process, though ultimately about intelligent life.

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precious life

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Beyond polemic about “precious life” (sentient human life), I want to be specific (soon) about entailed fidelity to precious values associable with fair chances for thriving and individuational flourishing through curiosity, engagement, belonging, appreciation, aspiration, and much more that good parenting and teaching provide, which altogether draws a life into precious purposes, having life-long appeal. True community promotes, ensures, and advances precious reasons to live.

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heading toward a star

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Better lives design their futures relative to appealing ways of under-
standing, in light of which pasts are given significant meaning.

So, I’ve named my long listing of diary-ish, personal postings of recent years “designing and remembrance,” not that there’s direct focus on the above theme. See the “preface” there.

appealing ways of understanding

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My cyclic Project is at least that, maybe (to conceptually minded persons). I want to avoid vanity.

The topics of cycle 4 which seem most appealing to me for develop-
ment of cycle 5 are listed together under fewer, simpler headers here. The “preface” explains it all.

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summer 2023

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A narrative path over many years is a kind of extended care for being, though sometimes seeming more like alien distance of a mind possessed by its textuality—an odd cohering of ordinary life indeed: such conceptual prospecting of belonging in mystery.

mystery belonging in artistic mirrorplay

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I streamed a three-hour German film, “Never Look Away” (2018), which Lisa Zunshine (literary theorist) discussed recently, briefly. My reaction is a bit longer.

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building from a ground shared, not made foundational

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My conceptual venturing has prevailing interest in usefulness rather than showing expert fidelity to academic topics (which I can do; being practical eludes many scholars).

So, giving time to narrative about ordinary life expresses shared ground (maybe oddly so, for my part) prior to venturing which is very different (but to be shared), which isn’t abandoning (let alone devaluing) ordinary life by pursuing specialist topics, because returning to practicality is always my aim.

proximal cohering of ordinary life

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The Aug. 17 “…sense of passing days…” below has been combined with six new topics as the three part “proximal cohering…,” whose third part (the six new topics: “personified psychal cohering”) is somewhat ambitious (quasi-phenomenological).

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whose mind am i reading?

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We created gods. So, what else is new?

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an extraterrestrial sense of passing daysas human

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“Proximality and everydayness,” then “acting in ordinary attitude” begin the short project on value conceptuality.

So, the “Project currently” will emerge in terms of its parts, not at first as main headers: discursive parts of small multi-part projects which gradually become a 2- or 3-level table of contents for the Cycle 5 project.

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importance and nature of caring

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This is a midstream point in a project on value conceptuality.

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path marking

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• Cycle 1: 2009—2011
• Cycle 2: 2016—mid-2017
• Cycle 3: 2018 and merging Cycles 1 and 2
• Cycle 4: 2019—2022
• Cycle 5: 2023—

—in other words, so much conceptual homemaking.

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updated November 2024 / January 2025

I began Internet writing near the beginning of its general public availability as the Web, firstly (and heavily) in academic email discussions of Jürgen Habermas’s work (referenced as “archives of discussion,” mid-page here), a specialty I evolved during earlier decades while also I learned basic (very basic) Web page formatting and did lots of blogging....

sorry to have intruded

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I sometimes write as avid stranger to academic others or well-known others without first introducing myself—but getting to my point succinctly and clearly—because I unwittingly regard people as planetary neighbors who welcome interest in their work and will graciously let me know when I’m intrusive; and I assume they’ll ask for introduction when they want that. I’m happy to get promotional, but I don’t like initiating it. (No one has ever complained. I’m just saying...)

Being genuinely informal is not inconsiderateness. It’s just that I enjoy my venturing.

I know that informality undermines my credibility in first impressions, but I’m not afraid to seem foolish. I’m not foolish.

I’m informal.

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interfacing

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I promise—given my life continues—to make better graphical presence of homepages (one and another), meanwhile being fascinated with balancing introversional and extraversional life, a keynote of mental health, you may know.

prospecting gods

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The notion of gods has always been an anticipation of (or claim to experience) superior beings.

Even monotheistic “God” is a reflection of human ideas (and want) of incomprehensible capability.

Call it darling trust.

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Bloomsday as bouquet of selves

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An array of influences may mirror the furthering of myself relative
to their constellating (as if their cohering emerges from their regioning), not clearly me constellating their concerted appealing relative to myself (otherwise as if I’m the given center or basis of their cohering).

Our array’s “as if” self-constellating becomes its own emergent centripetality drawing my growth centrifugally into trans-horizonal appreciations (even awe).

Like the manifoldness of James Joyce’s Ulysses, emergent proteany belongs to us in our regioning, though of course I selected the modes of engagement brought into blooming, and though I’m the sole witness of our giving way.

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for better being

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“Cohering lightness of preferring better being” may sound frivolous, but…well, I trust you’ll enjoy it all (a set of six postings), linked from
a new main page for my endless Project.

Soon, the “cohering lightness” set will move to a separate page (I’ll revise this posting), and the new Project home page will gradually become a list of links to other pages, like the previous era “during recent years” mentioned there.

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spring 2023

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I expect to post a lot this coming week, by Tuesday, June 6.

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May 19

I’m really close to having lots of new discussions to share frequently: I’ve settled on 38 topical entrances (focal concepts or conceptual rubrics) for developing online hundreds of pages of discussion (prospecting, analysis, expansive audacity, pragmatic thinking, fun) over the coming year (or two...or three...).

expressions

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I know the name of very few varieties of flowers, but I’m sometimes fascinated that a field of the same variety of flower—or a flowering bush or tree—has variety among the blossoms.

Biologists call it “phenotypic” differences of genotypic expressions.

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interfacial daze

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I’m burned out for tonight.

The past week, I’ve done several discursive emails to others: on philo-
sophical politics, practicalities of educational reform, prospecting democratic education; how will Biden seek to counter authoritarian appeal…; and, offline, adding notes on pluralist truth, realism, value,….

You’re so glad to know.

night note

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I don’t forget that We all ultimately belong together as Earthlings somehow Of the cosmos.

But, conceptualizing that “Of” is ultimately challenging—yet not fundamentally meta-physical. The miracle is Us: capability of minds is the wondrouns mystery.

halcyon days

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Long emails to others (friends, contacts, the New York Times—Ha!—can be so fruitful. The relationship is evincive—often more than an anonymous audience of standard writing.

But the result isn’t easily transposed to blog postings, because directly shared context can avoid the kind of explication that writing to the ether needs to consider.

And long streams of thought and allusive reference to the other’s streams of thought can easily go on and on, as if in a trance.

Afterward, transposing that for a public feels invasive, if not exploitive.

an offroad moment of defense

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Noting playful resignation toward others’ low interest in technical enchantments should belong to anyone drawn into a specialty, best masked genuinely by giving time to talk/write about those special things to whatever degree an interested person wants.

Doctors of medicine standardly explain client situations patiently until the patient client’s confusion or dismay (or panic, etc.) returns to trust, and one moves on to what’s next to be done.

The scientific writer sketches a landscape of figurative explanation for phenomena which are mathematical, biophysical, etc., at a degree suitable for a typical subscriber. Then, the reader moves on to another page.

road note

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My playful stance toward others’ wanting complex understanding easily masks my resignation toward normal aversion to a path which gets difficult.

Not that I expect “you” to tag along the road with me; I just wish others’ apparent interest in understanding what’s appealing to me didn’t wane so quickly.

But, all in all, I don’t mind. I’ve always felt I’m on my own, as they say—original? I don’t presume. Idiosyncratic? I hope not.

Fortunately, I have a healthy sense of humor.

days go by

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Today, Earth has rounded the sun full circle since Putin began his 19th century thrust into Ukraine via 20th century toys of slaughter and waves of Russian boys who slaughter on command like Nazi camp guards, succeeded by more hordes of boys now shoved into being slaughtered, while precisely-aimed  missiles target Ukrainian families.

A more policy-oriented attitude is expressed by me tonight at the NYTimes here.

winter 2023

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I haven’t made time for a worthwhile update for tomorrow. Sorry.
I’m doing difficult conceptual work which doesn’t yet have a casual online mode.

My harping about humanity in recent weeks has been to clarify a practical background (“What’s the point?”) for upcoming conceptual discussions.

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Feb. 3

After a week and a half, I can now sneeze without feeling stabbed. Meanwhile, I’ve gotten lots of desk work done (sneezed rarely), though I’ve moved around like an old guy near death, afraid to breath deeply, unable to sleep on my left side, pained to reach for anything, abused by my rib cage when I walk, and so on.

So, on. I have lots of stuff to share, but nothing yet ready to post.

an horizon of sensibility

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I’ve combined (1) links to a few recent comments by me at NY Times articles, (2) a few links to earlier related postings, and (3) a short narrative about salient themes, titled “staying oriented by the better sense of Our humanity.”

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Fall. Stand. Go on.

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Standing on a relatively high hill above Berkeley again (nightly), viewing S.F. miles away across the bay, the tiny presence of everything distantly lit up is about itself, displayed without regard for being seen—and without regard for what’s adjacent.

Things are there; buildings are there. Lines of cars (ants of light),  apparently inch across the Bay Bridge, drivers and passengers oblivious to other ants in other bubbles of self possession.

Here in Berkeley, life goes on, like any town. Structures persist. Strangers pass on sidewalks as if each is passing no one. If you suddenly face emergency, someone may stop to notice, maybe help because they’re hit with risk of guilt about their general lack of care. Otherwise, the stranger doesn’t exist.

This time of month, the moon shows itself, as if there’s to be some full significance of being there.

conceptual prospecting can be very practical

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My sense of “wholly flourishing humanity” gathers themes from the two previous discussions in a progressively practical way.

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some aspects of evolving conceptuality

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In “terms of venturing,” I’m starting a more-rigorous path, which has been implicit to earlier prospecting.

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humbly marking a new year for humanity

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We grow up, achieve a lot (at best), pay forward (please), and move on—maybe contributing to others’ lives.

Time tells. Learning never ends.

Anyway, my map is clear to me now, after some years of somewhat improvising, like hiking difficult hills to prepare for a high climb together.

I feel ready—audacious and shameless.

I know, Alice

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The writer easily feels being too many mirrors of others’ “writing” you into their lives, not only concealing you from them—by their unwitting need for you to be a mirror of their sense of self in their own lives—but also putting you into an immense loneliness of plural being.  

So, creative characterization may be not only art, bur therapeutic in ways which few others understand.  

True love sees the plurality of you as your authemtic manifold of being with others as oneSelf, which best friends of youth, then True loves, cherish purely.  

Though suffering the end of that is cause for “endless” mourning, art can turn longing into lasting gratitude for trust and love you were lucky to have lived.

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autumn 2022

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End of semester. The “children” are returning to where they came from. The quiet around the area outside returns the street to being a neighbor-
hood. I feel a faint thrill along with faint melancholy about the turn of
the year.

This period of weeks has long been an open mystery about what the annual change of seasons will evince for writing. I don’t know now whether or not I’ll have new material to share before early January. I may suddenly want to add a lot. Probably not—or maybe.

Anyway, I’ve been doing a lot of writing offline, so I expect even better during the weeks ahead.

I’m happy.

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mirror of a musement

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The senses of creativity I’ve improvised during the past decade were always afterthoughts irt work that evinced the thoughts. Wondering about creativity itself is no source of creative work. Creativity doesn’t emerge from a conception of creativity.

Then, concentrating on cohering it all doesn’t lead to more creative work other than the coherence being creative (or meta-creative). So,
a creative approach to understanding creativity may emerge.

The senses of you as muse I’ve improvised during the past decade were always preludes to work that resulted. Prospecting you as such was an afterthought to the mirroring which you inspired. But, dwelling in that did lead to more musing.

So, love of your musement was creative.

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I eat well today.

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But I see a news story about “food insecurity” in “our” wealthy U.S.
I recall a recent report about African famine due to climate change; or desperate survivors of barbarous shelling of Kiev, which cloud my eyes with tears.

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his story of loving singularity

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Today’s “love of ascending (and descending)” completes a 4-part series on love: “…notes,” “‘mindfulness’,” “fun with science…,” and today, which begins with infant attachment and ends in high sense of exploring.

There is no romanticism in my sense of love as ardent caring (in various ways and to varying degrees). Yet, my sense of this appeals for scaling up care through one’s years of growing up (thanks to good parenting and education) to ardently identify with Our humanity as one’s own, in a sense perhaps best expressed by literary history.

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fun with science searching for essential love

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Some leading ethical theorists ground morality (deontic ethics) in love (Harry Frankfurt, Michael Slote, Martha Nussbaum). Empirical psych-
ology can be quite corroborative of that—and for conceptual or philo-
logical prospecting. So, “love in empirical research” shows how that (blandly focused on ordinary love) may unwittingly complement richer views (humbly coming later).

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“mindfulness”

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This is a a conceptual venture which is not overtly related (yet) to common cultural, so called senses which methodically counsel better mental health. But I’m all for better mental health!

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love notes

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Cutely titled, but analytical, this also links to earlier points of effusively loving to be.

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fulfilling enjoyment as (and for) better humanity

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“Flourishing as fulfilling enjoyment” (Sept. 23) is a detailed, long reading of a leading researcher’s (Alan S. Waterman’s) sense of recent decades’ research on “flourishing.”

The Sept. 24 follow up, “better self-enabling for better humanity we share” (much shorter) gathers all of my own themes from the first discussion and constellates that coherently (I hope).

My second discussion can be usefully read without reading my detailed dialogue with Waterman’s text, but the first is useful for understanding how the second emerged.

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whom are you?

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The reality of multiple approaches to understanding a notion (named by a concept) may evince wondering [1] why one chooses one approach over another (if one does so: one is “best”?); [2] why there are multiple approaches (why the pluralism); and [3] how best to understand a convening of the plurality (modeling conceptual evolving?).

For example: identity.

a sense of self-differential integrity

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Sept. 3

How might we better understand a highly flexible sense of oneself?

How might we best understand the academic appeal of such a question as realistically desirable?

Here’s another beginning: “thinking of ‘a diversity of selves’.”

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Sept. 5

And the story continues: “more diversity of selves”

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summer 2022

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Nothing new, but here I am. And gone again.

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August 13

“on not seeking followers”

Happy trails.

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July 30

I am enjoying myself—serious joy, developing themes offline (philological string theory?). Lots coming soon, but not yet.

strings of notes cohering trees

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Internet writing easily allows narrative strings to branch like a tree
(or field paths) in which one can get lost.

I guess one could theorize hypertext writing as a kind of string theory
of texted virtuality.

After all, phenomenology was always textual, always about there being this here between us, belonging together in there being our inevitably different stances on there being this same glyphicality—different presence of the same.

wanting telicity of appellant cohering

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The “Bibliophilia” page (Nov. 2021) gained a second section, “playing to a muse.” And I renamed the page.

OneSelf is not basically a matter of ‘subjectivity’

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A paragraph in “…still-flowering…” (below today) caused an intended short reference posting to become a long discussion.

Much as I’ve been influenced by Jürgen Habermas, I could never wholly endorse his thinking in part because of his attachment to “subjectivity” in the auspices of his centrally intersubjectivist conception of interaction.

So, see: I don’t forget sober discourse, even though I prefer conceptual play.

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...thus, concerted cultivationof current generations

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In tragic times, fidelity to still flourishing is the best response to re-realizing one’s mortality.

My new set of discursive episodes is a milestone. It’s composed of recent and new pages, altogether having variable conceptual difficulty and variable creative license—all part of being a protean kinda guy: “singularity of a still-flowering life.”

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enthralling appeal

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How to arrange 30+ keynotes (future topic foci) into a short story.

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pre-appeal

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The postings below and the May 21 one are parts of an ongoing project. More parts are coming before gathering it all under one title.

• “loving mental playces”

• “self-enhancive love of learning”

It’s all [to be] responding to an appealing focus, but which isn’t yet intimated.

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individuating into Our evolving

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Theoretical biology advances notions of “evo-devo,” but a correlate, non-biologistic difference is expressed by the historicity of a life (developmental individuation) in a historicality of cultural evolving. “Deep heights appealing to low shallows” plays with the difference, from easy accessibility to difficult prospecting.

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What’s integral to engaged, meaningful lives?

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being, preferring, belonging, love, individuation, flourishing, creativity,... conceptual audacity?

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earlier spring 2022

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Friday was a happy day throughout the realm: Finals are over for Cal students, and it’s time to party.

In my own sense, this is a time for celebration. I’ve had a number of good events and things come into my life (which I may discuss some other time). My writing projects offline are growing well (new long postings coming soon); and long discussions via email with academic contacts will be melded into my Work.

Besides, we all need to enjoy the occasional occurrence of the 13th day of the month happening on a Friday. (Some tall buildings lack a 13th floor because many people lack a sufficient sense of humor.)

Also, I’m jubilant that the chronic nuisance of neighborhood partying will soon wane for a couple of months. I’m enjoying my own kind of solidarity with the “children” (who would cringe to be so regarded).

Here’s something (link upcoming): I had fun with the announcement
about that fuzzy image of the Black Hole at the center of “Our” galaxy, whose gravity makes the Milky Way spin with arms of billions of stars.
I commented at the NY Times, but would revise one phrase, deleting its “…Our evolving intelligence” and instead write: “…intelligence Out There eons beyond us….”

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a lovely cohering

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Happy April sees a daze of knitted cohering offline beyond recent additions to Areas of The Project currently, which I’ve deleted from announcement at the top of that page:

• confessing a lovely integrity, January 2022
• better being for beter humanity, February 2022
• generative humanities, November. 2021
• Literary university / democratic ecology, October 2021

My netted cohering constellates an integrally differential appreciability
of living conceptual appeals to be prospected through bibliophilic explorations of proteany, psychanalysis (my sense of “psychoanalysis”), leading mindfulness, literary conceptuality, and humanity’s futures (whatever).

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flourishing humanity

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—as if you haven’t read enough about humanity. But “flourishing humanity” best expresses (so far) my sense of the better continuum
of progressive pragmatics. ‘Flourishing’ is used as a verb.

Humanity is the ethical generality that we are or can be, which ideas
of “universality” and “cosmopoly” conceal, because Our locus in
the cosmos which is universal has nothing to do with Our Earthanity.

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winter 2022

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So being a point of humanity, I flourish before tragedy anyway, as winter yields to spring, and I’m flying: I expect to have new postings weekly.

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flourishing before tragedy

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Who needs delusional despotism to remind one of what matters, when necessary defense is evinced? The principle-based international order of The Fair World will prevail, without a paranoid narcissism of power to remind Us.

The title has a double sense of ‘before’: prior to and in the face of.

It’s an elaborate postponement of detailed discussion of the current horror in Ukraine. Also, it extende an argument for why negate-ive “dialectic” is invalid.

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being a point of humanity

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A large new project, “points of humanity,” is about lifeworldliness, self-effacing reconciliation, being, ethical sense, and bettering our futurity. It’s the first part of a larger project which will eventually list “points of humanity” as its beginning sections.

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anomie of mortality

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I’m regularly reminded, by obituaries of once-prominent persons, that I’d forgotten about them—as the major media evidently did, since they weren’t subjects of articles in recent years (as far as I knew), until they died. “Oh!,” I realize about the person I admired, “s/he wasn’t already dead.” It’s amazing how quickly a long obituary appears, as if some editor was ready for the death.

Encomiums abound for a few days, then they’re forgotten again, at best becoming characters in someone’s distant scholarship.

Tradition was that families kept memory of their recent ancestors alive because families stayed close across generations. Now, many marriages don’t last; the children adjust to a parent being a visitation, everyone having vaguely recognized relatives. And nomadic professions (nom-
adic families) may barely ever know who their relatives are, let alone who’s still alive.

“Neighborhoods” become privatistic data areas in city management. “Communities” become vaguely bounded segments of exurban metropolia. Obsessive social networking brings anomie, even depres-
sion. People are glued to their phone screens on the street, as if desperate for something novel.

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Your life is yours, once.

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“Idealizing better being for better humanity” preludes discussions of others’ work, beginning soon.

But it’s implicitly motivated by feeling from others so much complacency (slackerism); and so much consumerist pandering
in journalism.

Highly engaged artists and inquirers are commonly regarded by market society as aliens—or curiosities. Highly better-advised action and expertise easily seem elitist.

I turn away into my happy excursions, which have involved more work by others than I’ve yet highlighted.

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Another writer wants realismabout humanity now

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“What’s the better (‘best’?) cohering potpourri of this month’s leading ephemera?”

It’s anyone’s guess. Sensibility progresses—and finds progress in contemporaneity—by articulate responsiveness to news, shaping
new projects, new themes, new regions of thematics, as times call for. 

café transcript on the identity of Art

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A problem with autobiography is that detailing the past after many decades is too time consuming: The smallest event can become stories within stories within. And I’ve still got a life to live.

So, given that there’s no perfect beginning—certainly not beginning with childhood—“In The Beginning... Once upon a time...”—I’ll just recall something that suits my mood, whatever the day.

How it all hangs together will have to emerge (if at all) somewhere ahead.

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