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Complexity cannot be reduced to any given certainty.
Colleagues have had this to say:
“Antonio’s extraordinary flow of writing both challenges
Johnnie Moore’s Blog, A deeper appreciation of Antonio Dias
and comforts me. …I’ve caught myself engaging in…
tense, drowning thinking and reminding myself to relax
into a more floating way of being with life’s challenges.
…reading his material is a good practice
in holding that distinction.”
…
“His post…, Planing, Superimposition, & Palimpsest
is another… I’ve felt very moved by.
There is a density to his writing….
Read Antonio impatiently, read it like prose,
and his style and content can feel frustrating,
like being caught in weeds or nettles.
Read it like poetry and instead, I feel more
I am held with love by the ideas he expresses.”
…you’ve focused on how even promising responses to
Christian Ford
our converging predicaments become mired in
the internalized power/coercion dynamics
which produced them in the first place.
Orwell said,
Johnnie Moore
‘To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.’
…seeing requires patience and a willingness to question oneself
as well as the other. …to say it as you see it,
…finding language both poetic and precise
enough to do the insight justice.
I think of you as …one who works
…diligently in both struggles….
…blessed to live on a small island…,…blessed to live on a small island…,
David Malchman
perfecting a craft, influenced by nature,
living one tide at a time.
You endeavour to stay present, to persist, and stumble,
Catherine Lupton
and persist some more,
and never sell your insights short,
and persist still where most would give up;
because there is always another fold in an idea…
…you are willing to go the distance to unfold,
winding this way and that
as the sea and the wind do.
i have found in your writing an exploration of
Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard
the edges of ‘everyday’ thoughts and ideas…
an extraordinary ability to ‘come back’ with a description
that showed me how there are multiple ways of seeing….
…which has more than once been a matter of resolving
my own feeling of being stuck….
What you are is a teacher.
Dian Hamilton

Learning is central:
Sharing our gifts,
“We don’t require professions.
Communion with the Sacred
We require practices.
We don’t need to develop philosophies
We need to find ways to live with purpose and meaning.
We don’t need to fight what exists.
We need to discover ways of being that bring us fulfillment
and wean us off our dependency on destruction.
Let’s work together to build practices,
strengthen dialogue,
and discover and develop community.
Let me know how we might work together.

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