transference

questions of translation emerging not only from the previous post but more generally are also directly relevant because the editing project i am now working on is translations of poems, epistles, sermons from the 7th and 8th centuries. and the subtext, backstory, is sometimes difficult to draw out and understand personally, let alone convey in [...]

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every leaf over

and in Your light do we see light
- psalm 36:9
i turn 20 in six months less three days., and i do not feel i have a solid grasp on anything – western tradition, islamic tradition, any of the half-dozen languages i try to scrape by in, languages of the word or of the Word; dreamscapes [...]

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are falling across the

and so we were in calgary for the weekend: many pictures at taka’s flickr. a concert, some 3am adventuring, and driving in good company under brooding skies.

it is raining.

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mist

words are: extensions of ourselves. they pour outward from our pores, they reach to the sky, some fall back to layer the earth and others do not try, words spring from us like leaves defy cement and tear at the stars as smoke billows from industry steeples, filling the sky and blanketing the earth just [...]

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like every other morning

when my soul was embittered,
when i was pricked in heart,
i was stupid and ignorant,
i was like a beast toward Thee.
nevertheless i am continually with Thee;
Thou dost hold my right hand.
Thou dost guide me with Thy counsel,
and afterward Thou wilt receive me to glory
whom have i in heaven but Thee?
and there is nothing upon earth that [...]

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lists and lists.

1. future.
2. to-do.
3. to read&write.

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clouds rising

so i believe i might finish today, bi idhnih.
As I further explored the widely-diverging accounts of both the events at Münster  and of Anabaptist origins in general, I began to see “Münster” as integral to understanding historians’ constructions of Anabaptism. How an historian approaches “Münster” will be congruent with her wider view of Anabaptism and [...]

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beat of black wings

the liner notes to joni mitchell’s the beginning of survival are adapted from “chief seattle’s letter to the president”. and are incredibly tragic.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: The earth does [...]

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days like these

all the buildings hang their smoke upon the sky
my industrial lullaby
- stephen fearing
a day and a half in which to slap together ten pages on anabaptist and other accounts of anabaptist mono/poly)genesis, and/or histories of the kingdom of munster, and/or the ways in which anabaptist movements are/were seen as extensions or aberrations of the broader [...]

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06.06.07

everybody loves a good disaster
- stephen fearing
the particular technology was invented by the roman church in the sixteenth century, anticipating the increasing public presence of the ecclesiastical establishment and the introduction of weekly communion, which sacrament was only possible as purified by confession. and so the masses of europe thronged to the confessional-box, that they [...]

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