Time & Wounds
From this review of the film Eden, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love.
Time does not heal all wounds, but it does change our relationship to painful events.
Ture.
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Self-awareness is good, but…
From What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun in The Atlantic, By Michael O’Donnell.
Self-awareness will take a man a long way, off setting his pride and blunting his tendency to become ridiculous. [Yet] Knowing who you are does not mean knowing what to do.
Yeah.
Paul Kingsnorth's Four Ps
From a post by Paul Kingsnorth on his Substack.
A culture is not the same as a civilization. The latter is built from the top-down, by the use of coercive power. The former emerges from the bottom-up, from a combination of what I call the Four Ps: people, place, prayer
Moving from posistion of castration
From a post by Paul Kingsnorth on his Substack.
Christianity turns power on its head. This is not the same as rejecting power. It is, instead, transforming it. God’s power is not human power. Our petty little attempts to impose our will by dominance, force and violence mean nothing