Dear family and friends,
I write again with news about Indirections in Changefulness, a personal and professional retrospective on this middle distance between being to becoming.
This week’s assay of bias is called No If And Or But, a longer-than-average post about shorter-than-average words and the subliminal messages they breathe into our mind’s ear. I had some sweet and sour moments compiling the backstories and hope you enjoy it.
Since my May Letter, I have added other posts as well.
Irrational Will was a Mother’s Day two-parter about moms and heaven and how the two sometimes move one another.
Orson Ball’s a Friend of Mine declares a sixty-year-old event, diagnoses it thirty years later, and foretells its future thirty years later still.
His 50-Year Goals recounts my humbling and exhilarating encounter with an American in East Timor who once foretold the future.
The Boys from Brazil is this month’s throwback, where, with nothing more than a discarded library book, I cosmic-pranked an unsuspecting stranger, and, years later, myself.
Monthly letters usually feature posts already in the can. But if you are visiting weekly, here’s a preview of what you can expect in the coming Thursdays, + on Father’s Day:
June 15: First, Change Everything will be a French lesson on how our Bone, Wit, Gut, Flash, & Outbreak are transformed separately—and together, Then, Now, & Yet.
June 18 (Father’s Day): Restoration will consider the transformation of one of my dad’s old paintings and, in particular, how the past becomes its own future when we care for it the way a painter revisits an old canvas.
June 22: Mad Dogs and Change Resistance will posit that Resilience is not your friend; not till you let it in the house, train it not to bite, and give it its own dish.
June 29 (Mom’s Birthday): The Woman Who Wore Her Mind Like a Coat: Why We Parallel Process, and How to Do It More Often, will suggest that while specialization is critical to deep knowledge, variety is not only the spice of life but the key to imagining the implicate wholeness of things, without which depth is a dead letter.
July 6: Nickel Fork will posit to anyone thus sensitized that if you haven’t got a prayer, then you haven’t got a prayer.
Until next time,
Scott