I’m starting a section of the “being in Time” Area of gedavis.com titled “days go by,” which is a rubric of resignation and understated sense of uncanniness. But the section itself will be largely short posting-like reactions to news of whatever week I feel like reacting to. It won’t be about capturing our historicality
(I expect).
I note that here because an interesting result of searching my blogs, years past, for the phrase ‘days go by’ turns up numerous postings—mostly not titled “days go by,” but most related to this blog, though not all from this blog. (I got tired of the rubric, for the most part, after 2011.)
It all shows a sense of Self interest that is creatively oriented, rather than egoistic. This is useful for the “summer constellation” project. They can be made into an interesting confessional sequence.
July 29, 2025 update
I’m not a religionist. I venture that the essence of religious wisdom is secular (humanistic). In particular, religious life has anthrogenically served to secure public health and regional sustainability.
The implicit Heideggerian interest for this posting is his implicit valuing of identity-in-difference, signaled by his title Identity and Difference. No negation exists with his phenomeno-linguistic framing. But that point is merely implicit for me here.
April 2020
First century BCE Palestine had been Hellenistic for centuries. So, Greek influence surely created a hybrid sense of Aramaic understanding.
When Jesus—a well-educated rabbi—“said.” according to the Gospel of Luke, that “the kingdom of God is within you,” Luke’s Greek is confusing (according to Stephen Mitchell, The Gospel According to Jesus, p. 146): Luke allegedly means ‘among’, but uses a Greek meaning for ‘within’. So, Luke’s Jesus is “saying” an ambiguity: The kingdom of God is at once within “you” (singular) and among “you” (plural). “In other words,” Mitchell notes, “the ultimate reality, though it is revealed in history, essentially belongs to the spiritual order…”
Yes, Elizabeth, I'm glad too [that “…{I’m} writing and reading things that matter”].
Send me your poem from your upcoming collection of poetry that most importantly expresses your sense of why you're doing poetry.
Also, what, at heart, is poetry's calling, to you?
Thanks,
gary
deleted from draft email to her:
“Why do you do poetry?” would surely be a high schooler's question. Yet, it’s also a question implicitly addressed by anyone who cares for our humanity.
