http://www.jestes.org/index.php en john@cithara.org Copyright 2010 2010-03-11T13:22:42-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/abz/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/abz/#When:13:22:42Z {summary}"Ode to Dogwood Winter," 2010 2010-03-11T13:22:42-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/jellyroll/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/jellyroll/#When:13:13:54Z {summary}"CSI: Where it's Rembembered that the Phoenix and the Turtledove Died of Married Chastity in Shakespeare's Long Lost Poem," and "At the Neighborhood Watch." online 2010-03-11T13:13:54-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/poetry_daily/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/poetry_daily/#When:13:42:07Z {summary}"I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable,"November 28, 2009 online 2009-11-29T13:42:07-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/black_elk/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/black_elk/#When:17:20:06Z {summary}I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and shapes of all shapes as they must lie together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy. It is from understanding that power comes and the power in the ceremony was in understanding what it meant. history, education, poetics 2009-11-26T17:20:06-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/packingtown_review_api1/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/packingtown_review_api1/#When:01:15:35Z {summary}The Old English Rune Poem (selections), 2010 2009-11-25T01:15:35-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/horace_to_virgil/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/horace_to_virgil/#When:13:57:31Z {summary}Suppose you were able to play the lyre Even more skillfully than Orpheus played it, Causing the very trees to listen to him, What good would it do? Could the music restore Blood in the veins of the empty shade of one who has died? How could the music persuade the god To open the door he has shut, and shut once and for all, The god whose horrid wand shepherds the dead To where they are going down there to be shut away? It is hard. But all of this must be endured, And by endurance what can never be changed Will be at last made easier in the heart. poetry 2009-11-14T13:57:31-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/hdf_kitto_the_greeks/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/hdf_kitto_the_greeks/#When:15:36:56Z {summary}Arete implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself. philosophy 2009-11-13T15:36:56-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/robert_pirsig_zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_maintenance/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/robert_pirsig_zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_maintenance/#When:23:21:06Z {summary}The true work of the inventor consists in choosing among combinations so as to eliminate the useless ones, or rather, to avoid the trouble of making them, and the rules that must guide the choice are extremely fine and delicate. It's almost impossible to state them precisely; they must be felt rather than formulated. literature, philosophy, poetics 2009-11-11T23:21:06-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/verse_daily/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/verse_daily/#When:10:58:00Z {summary}"Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" November 10, 2009 online 2009-11-10T10:58:00-06:00 http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/david_bohm_on_creativity/ http://www.johnestes.org/index.php/site/david_bohm_on_creativity/#When:17:12:03Z {summary}What, then, is the creative state of mind, which so few have been able to be in? It is, first of all, one whose interest in what is being done is wholehearted and total, like that of a young child. With this spirit, it is always open to learning what is new, to perceiving new differences and similarities, leading to new orders and structures, rather than always tending to impose familiar orders and structures in the field of what is seen. education, poetics 2009-10-18T17:12:03-06:00