A BACK DOOR TO THE HEART
Meditation teacher Mark Hart talks about the front of the heart and the back of the heart. The front of the heart is often about our...
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Doug Anderson
- Oct 3, 2021
- 1 min
IMPONDERABLE
Isn't amazing how people who are not in love are so quick give advice to those who are? Especially obnoxious is someone who wants to...
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Doug Anderson
- Sep 13, 2021
- 1 min
QUESTIONS
Questions Can you be kind can you forgive petty things and even some bad ones Can you see the wisdom of Horace I Am Human Therefore...
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Doug Anderson
- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
THE CURSE OF LIVING LONG
Is to see the wheel turn twice. In the sixties we at once took off our clothes and a deadening morality. It was, as we saw, not moral. We...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
LANGUAGE COMES FROM THE BODY
Language comes from the body. When babies learn language, they make movements, as if they are taking the words into their body, making...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 25, 2021
- 7 min
The Gravestone and the Continuing Self
When I was in my twenties I thought old age was an island only accessible by a bridge I’d never cross. But I’ve crossed it, and at...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 25, 2021
- 1 min
SPACE JUNK
MIT MUSEUM The sky is clotted. Tangled. Vapor trails, blinking lights of low flying aircraft. The stars are moving away from us, becoming...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
MOVING WATER Performed by The Serious Play Theater Ensemble. Contact kofest.com for tickets.
Moving Water is on stage at A.P.E., 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA MOVING WATER For the last two years I’ve had the privilege of...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 18, 2021
- 1 min
The Many Deaths
According to various spiritual traditions there are two deaths; one at the end of life, and one when the false self dies within life,...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
Love comes across the field to me, a small bird to land at my feet.
Detail from The Couple, by Louise Bourgeois It was my work to live through the wound of love. A child without it, I blindly swam through...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 14, 2021
- 1 min
I WAS TOWING THE BOAT OF MY YOUTH
I was towing the boat of my youth. It was slowing me down. So I cut the hawser and let it drift. I can see it still, fainter every day, a...
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Doug Anderson
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
ART: OLD BAD, NEW GOOD
Semantics: when I say art, I also mean poetry, music, etc. There must be a word for the reflexive tendency to reject the old in favor of...
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Doug Anderson
- Jun 19, 2021
- 3 min
Art Should Render You Speechless, Not Glib
THE EXPERIENCE OF A WORK OF ART I'm thinking that there is always something baffling about the experience of a work of art. If you see it...
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Doug Anderson
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
CECI N'EST PAS UN POÈME
CECI N’EST PAS UN POÈME The fish in the Swift River will not miss you when you die. Few people will actually see who you are in your...
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Doug Anderson
- May 23, 2021
- 1 min
WHY I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE CONSTANT DRONE OF TV's IN WAITING ROOMS
Boston MFA Walter Benjamin talked about art losing its "aura" in the age of mechanical reproduction: photographs and other reproductions...
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Doug Anderson
- May 23, 2021
- 1 min
WE ARE NOT BETTER THAN DOGS BARKING AT EACH OTHER
We are not better than dogs barking at one another. Back in the sixties, when I was angry, returned to college after Vietnam and neck...
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Doug Anderson
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
NOTES ON WRITING: WE DO NOT WRITE ENTIRELY FOR OURSELVES
HERMAN MELVILLE'S HOUSE AT ARROWHEAD Notes on writing: We do not write entirely for ourselves. “The seat of the soul is where the inside...
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Doug Anderson
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
THE LITERATURE OF VICTIMHOOD
Nancy Grossman What if I don't feel like a victim? I've had my traumas--a couple of them substantial--but they are not the impetus of my...
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Doug Anderson
- May 2, 2021
- 1 min
Default to Not-knowing: Revisiting the Classics
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene...
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Doug Anderson
- May 2, 2021
- 1 min
TIME AND SPACE IN NEW ENGLAND
TIME AND SPACE IN NEW ENGLAND Driving in Vermont looking for old barns to photograph, stop to talk to a farmer who finally says he has to...
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