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Our language identifies who we are.  For the Crow our life doesn’t revolve around ownership of things…it is the ownership of our words.

Humanity is not something man simply has. He must fight for it anew in every generation, and he may lose his fight.  Where…the uniqueness of his individual person? – Paul Tillich, “A Prefatory Note By Paul Tillich”, New Images of Man

Unbound by tradition, uninhibited by fear, each American is free to invent “an original relation to the universe,” or so said Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836.  Since then, a uniquely American idea of self-creation has been reduced to its opposite, as we learn to define ourselves through consumerist choice in everything from art to politics.

The work of memory is to recall what has been lost.

Carter Ratcliff – art critic, author, poet

Matt is a Master Trail Builder in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.  He is responsible for 72 miles of trails that stretch from the Golden Gate Bridge to Point Reyes, California. “I work in rock, earth and wood.”

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ETERNITY – jason shinder

A poem written three thousand years ago

about a man who walks among horses
grazing on a hill under the small stars

comes to life on a page in a book

and the woman reading the poem,
in the silence between the words,

in her kitchen, filled, with a gold, metallic light,
finds the experience of living in that moment
so clearly described as to make her feel finally known

by someone — and every time the poem is read,

no matter her  situation or her age,
this is more or less what happens.

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What would you do?

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given enough paint, paper and permission, there’s no telling where we might end up

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