Poetry, Passion, & Pleasure With Dale Biron Dale Biron

We all want to fulfill the "why" of our lives. Therefore, how we "pickle" ourselves matters. Or said another way, the "context" we create for ourselves and others will determine how successful we are at creating the vision and world that is most important to us.

The simple, basic, foundational fact we must understand to be successful in any creative (especially artistic) endeavor...

When we create stories about human nature, based upon observing traumatized humans, we get a picture that is both predictable and wrong. –Musings of a Poet

A Post-Humanist world would be one that fully embraced a "more than human world..." This week's episode continues to explore this theme, and features a powerful and poetic quote by David Abram, who coined the phrase used in the title. Plus one of the most famous poems written by the brilliant poet, Robinson Jeffers. 

"...We must un-humanize our view of the world just a little,
make being of service, as needed and as sacred as sunlight.
Invite both head and heart, home, to a welcomed wholeness.
Declare joy and having "enough" the newest kind of envy..."

–Dale Biron

What if we are up to our collective axels in mud? What if our political and ecological ideas, beliefs, and actions are getting us nowhere? What if we've got to get lost (on purpose) to actually move forward. What if a condition for sane progress is to first arrange for our own disappearance?

What if philosopher-poet, Bayo Akomolafe is right when he says, "The way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis..."