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focal things
The German-born American philosopher Albert Borgmann (1937-2023) described two contrasting phenomena: devices and focal things that were based on Martin Heidegger’s concept of Gestell (or enframing as it is known in English). Borgmann uses an old hearth as an example of a focal thing. A hearth is designed to heat a building, but it also…
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abà
We continue to discuss the nature of this project and work and the ways in which how it is called reflect that emerging and adapting work. Below is some text about one possible name: Abà. As we slowly begin to understand this place we are caring for, words start to matter differently. In Sassarese – the…
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fire is stored sunshine
From 1983’s BBC TV series “Fun to imagine” here’s Richard Feynman discussing fire. we know that oxygen and carbon stick together very tight. How is it that the tree is so smart to manage to take the carbon dioxide, which is the carbon [and] oxygen nicely combined and undo that so easy? Ah life, life…
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catching fire
It is sometimes inadvertently that a revolution takes place. An effect of extreme gentleness, barely different from other moments, and then life suddenly catches fire, is ablaze. But burning with inexplicable gentleness. A volte una rivoluzione avviene inavvertitamente. Un effetto di estrema gentilezza, appena diverso da altri momenti, e poi la vita, all’improvviso, prende fuoco,…
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after we are gone
He said one day he got up the nerve to ask a Mennonite bishop why rubber tires were forbidden. The bishop answered Klaas’s question with a question: “When do you start raising a child?” According to the bishop, Klaas told us, child rearing begins not at birth, or even conception, but one hundred years before…
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