Comments on: Devices and desires

By: Pen

Pen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:57:48 +0000

Thank you, Hirini. I’m intrigued by what you say, not least about the seasons. I look forward to mulling your book.

By: Hirini Reedy

Hirini Reedy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:46:11 +0000

We must continue to provoke change Penelope. Use the turn of seasons to disarm the horns of power. Antlers fall so do male penises. Beneath the surface of the problem lies the embryo of its own evolving solution. Your questions are the first piercing. We can engage power on power, fire against fire. Bigger fire wins. Or we explore the alchemy of opposites. Weaving the elements together to elegantly disarm power using the orbiting seasons of Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Also reminds me of the line from the film Power of One. Little beat big when little smart. First with the head. Then with the heart.
Aroha ai
Hirini

By: Pen

Pen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:48:08 +0000

Raymond, if you want to make a dig, please come and find me in the kitchen.

Claire, I’m sure you’re right. And the dance in that whirling forcefield is giddying and addictive. Who wants to be free of desire? Only now and then does that seem desirable.

By: Claire Beynon - Icelines

Claire Beynon - Icelines — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:22:31 +0000

Lots of rich material to contemplate here, Pen – thanks – and in amongst it all, a call to love (y)our ‘callous’ heels. We do rather neglect our feet, don’t we – think of all they enable us to do. It can’t possibly hurt to honour them from time to time. If your egg works, let me know – I might have to get myself one!

In response to your thoughts about forces of desire and forces of resistance… oft times (every time?) the one force fuels the other… I’m not sure it’s possible for the one to exist without the other? What are you thoughts? L, C

By: raymond

raymond — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:49:55 +0000

Where does the power come from? From us.We elect these people but only about a quarter of us bother to vote in local elections.