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Water and River

12pieces on this thread. All topics.

Paper

Can restoring the water cycle cool land and climate? Scientific basis and property-scale assessment using the EcoDynamics Diagnostic Engine

Preprint on the science of water-cycle cooling and a property-scale assessment method built into the EcoDynamics Diagnostic Engine. Essay

A Wondrous Fellow Appears Out of the Darkness – Part II

Part II of The Way of the Fool: the Fool appears as a guide out of the darkness, and what it means to recognise oneself among those who belong to him. Essay

About the Boy – Part I

Part I of The Way of the Fool: how the Boy — an inner companion first met at nineteen — became the figure through whom a lifetime of writing finds its voice. Poem

Descending Into Myself

A meditation for the Fool, worked at across two decades, from 2001 to 2020. Story

The Boy Jumps Ship

The Boy has been at sea all his life without knowing it. The day he wakes on the deck and sees the ship for the first time, he jumps. Library

Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again.

Wanderer, your footprints are the path, and nothing else; wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking. Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again. Wanderer, there is no path— Just your wake in the sea. taken from: “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” […] Library

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness

I am choosing to write this book to my sons. They are little boys now and they will never know what they came from through me, unless I tell them. It is not written for them to read now but when they are grown and the pains and joys have tousled them a little. And […] Library

The impeded stream is the one that sings

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ~ Wendell Berry Poem

Promise of a Man

The awkward attempt at being human, with so much lizard still under the tailcoat. Story

The Tale of Two Tomorrows

A fable of the Little Girl, the Old Man and a sycamore seed turning in a glass jar: every life is like a seed, and this is a tale of two tomorrows. Poem

There are things we cannot do on our own

Written on 13 February 2016. Poem

I Am Your Vessel, Not Your Captain

Written for my son on his birthday, on being his vessel and not his captain.

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