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Friday Notebook 08.12.2011
A number of quotes from David Abram‘s extraordinary The Spell of the Sensuous flowed into my notebook this past week. Here are a few of them: We see the sorcerer being called upon to cure an ailing tribesman of his sleeplessness, or perhaps simply to locate some missing goods; we witness him entering into trance and sending his awareness into other dimensions in search of insight and aid. yet we should not be so ready to interpret these dimensions as “supernatural,” nor to view them as realms entirely “internal” to the personal psyche of the practitioner.Read More
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Friday Notebook 07.22.2011
The world is that small spaceyou occupy. The rest is rumor.Be careful where you choose to go.You have freedom, but only thinkyou can live there. Rememberhow you refused that cap and gownget-up to collect your family’s firstcollege degree? How your mother cried?Freedom! And now she’s gone. Somebonds are roots, others—fetters.Freedom can be fetters, too. * After hurricane Rita, this placewas just shredded jungle. Nowit’s Jesús and Lídia’s casa,built by him, by hand, on weekendsand vacations, the way my fatherbuilt our first house.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
