William it was really nothing…

February 11, 2009

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“The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.”
– William Morris

This leaped out at me give our recent obsession with temporalities. Plus he’s got a beard to die for…

david February 14, 2009 at 3:37 pm

It’s not easy to escape from all this good stuff about temporalities. In my becoming-father persona, I’ve started reading Birth without Violence, by Frederick Leboyer. This is from the translator’s preface:

To be born and to give birth are one and the same; that the very act of giving birth takes a woman back to the moment of her own birth. This new perception of time, of finding oneself outside the limits of time as we know it, can be very confusing. One becomes award that giving birth takes place in an altered state of consciousness. Birth, death, dying, being born or giving birth — nearly all merge at times, all become the same adventure into and out of that territory we might call no-man’s-land.