This is a summary of the stories,
essays and poems included in the projects files
(or to be
linked there), and meant to be an exploration of the meaning of those ideas.
Stories
Humba Jumba Necessity
In a corner of the universe there was a galaxy, a bright and beautiful galaxy,
and in this galaxy there was a solar system with a single planet. The planet
was a beautiful spinning sphere, with an average temperature of seven times
the boiling point of water. It was inhabited by a race of living beings called
humba.
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Welcome to life
Please step forward. Move up to the line painted on the floor, and wait for
instructions.
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Who are you? What do you know?
An old man lay on his death bed. The well-wishers who stood around the bed
grew dim. The fluorescent bulbs above stopped humming, and the walls began to
glow. The plastic tubes in his arms dissolved, and for the first time in weeks
he was without pain, and his mind could focus again.
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Something unsullied
She pressed herself against me. I was sitting on the massive stone
railing of the Malecon, Havana’s waterfront promenade, with the sea to
my back, and in front the pastel-colored colonial buildings. She was poor, pretty,
and young, a black girl from the Cuban countryside, without resources or skills,
despairing of her life and aching to escape from it. She had latched onto me:
a dream of opportunity, an object of hope.
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Essays
Formulation
of self
The
great no
Senses of reality
Declaration
of sovereignty
True relations
What is true relation?
Elements of connection
Wishful thinking
or reality?
Center
of understanding
Beautiful conundrums
What is understanding?
Education: Untaught, unrewarded
The moral commons
Spiritual direct action
Complicity
Implicity
Protest: Challenging, healing action
Conflict transformation
Does time throw up
walls?
Creating
Humanity centers
Are we responsible for global poverty?
What's necessary to heal global fractures?
Sister communities
What's the problem, man?
Elemental Society
Spiritual capitalism
miscellaneous
Little known art forms
Those who have
Poems
Beginnings/ Formulation of self
Does anything last?
The answer
Revealing
Step aside
Crucible of unity
The moral commons
Elemental society
True relations
That’s not good
enough!
The
beautiful factor
The
truth of a relation
The sacredness of human relations
Our
selves flowed out
The moral commons
Elemental society
Millenial dreams
There, somewhere
Times of the library
walker
Infinite face
Material on this page written by Geoff--Bederson