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Social Prescriptions and Protopia

The Royal Ontario Museum reports on social prescriptions in action About Social Prescriptions Social prescriptions are a means for healthcare, community, and social service professionals to refer people to non-clinical and non-medical services that, along with existing treatments, can be … Continue reading

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Line Ups

Rachel Giese concludes her “The New Normal: The Mainstreaming of Mental Health” which appeared in The Walrus with an anecdote which not only humanizes the content but also offers us an object lesson. Her little story is about the service … Continue reading

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Proportions and Centuries

From an email signature block in use in 2001 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation Long views help us act locally; global perspectives help us act again and again. And so for day 669 12.10.2008

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It Bears Repeating

From Zbigniew Herbert “Chord” as translated by Alissa Valles and found in The Collected Poems 1956-1998. a good memory cures the scar a loss leaves I’ve no idea about the original Polish. I do like the polysemy offered by the … Continue reading

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Labour and Consciousness

Eli Zaretsky Capitalism, The Family and Personal Life But what distinguishes human from animal life is not labor — it is conscious labor. According to Marx: “A bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. … Continue reading

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Increments of incrimination

Martin Buber Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters translated by Olga Marx Zusya’s account of the “incomplete” angel-accuser that emerges from acts of sin The Accuser This is Rabbi Zusya’s comment on the pasage in the Sayings of the … Continue reading

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And the moral of the story is

Finished reading His Dark Materials. It’s moving in a kind quiet way. It celebrates the everyday goodness of living a humble but engaged life. Its final emphasis is on building the Republic of Heaven in the here and now: But … Continue reading

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On Sharing

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples built its report around four principles: Recognition, Respect, Sharing and Responsibility. https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307458586498/1307458751962 The description of “sharing” harkens to discussions of sustainability and good stewardship. During the nineteenth century, the prevailing viewpoint held that relations … Continue reading

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Inspired

<a name=”uzitor” href=”mailto:noFreeLunch@anyWhereanyWhenanyHOW.ca> Spammers collect email addresses. The more bogus email addresses they collect, the less clean data they have to ply their trade. From the poetic prose of Patti Smith: in the wall is a hole. duchamp thumbprint pin … Continue reading

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Producing Transformations

From a photocopy of a work by Eli Zaretsky the catchword in the formwork reads “Capitalism and Personal Life” [could be a chapter or a running head for the title of a whole book] and the page number is “63”. … Continue reading

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