by Ray Holland | May 24, 2023 | General
Iian McGilcrhist often mentions that how we attend is a moral act. If we bring a perception that assesses this world as particles drifting randomly (or arranged in only one way, the way we have re-visioned into a map) and identifies the creatures of this landscape as...
by Ray Holland | May 11, 2023 | General
Excerpt from Heart-drama: A Way to Beauty and Truth Over our years in Horseshoe, North Carolina, I calculate I have gone on at least 3,500 walks on the same dirt road. My dogs and I have become an integral part of this place, spotted every morning and late afternoon,...
by Ray Holland | May 3, 2023 | General
They will deny completely that they have a paralyzed arm and if forced to move it, they will say, “there, I just moved it,” while nothing moved. Iian McGilchrist Two psychiatrists walk into a therapist’s office….This is not the beginning of a...
by Ray Holland | May 1, 2023 | General
There are times I think it might be preferable to be a machine, a robot, an android. Such beings (or non-humans) can evaluate at length what is in front of them, set an agenda that will be followed unvaryingly. They stay-narrowly focused on the appearance of things as...
by Ray Holland | Apr 27, 2023 | General
(A woman comes into the frame, smiling.) “Good morning,” she says with a light but husky voice. “This morning we are in the booming Horse Shoe arts district, in North Carolina, which reminds me so much of Venice, Italy, minus the canals and contributions to the...
by Ray Holland | Apr 19, 2023 | General
The drama is a little slippery. The title the Protagonist provides at the start suggests some kind of crushing force at work. The point of a title is to give some sense of what is to come, but in the enactment the family is presented as loving and well meaning. We...