Enjoyed all of this but especially: “I don’t know if the trade I’m learning from people like Dougald will be one I can ever pass on. Don’t know if I’ll get a chance to do a book tour of my own. Don’t know if I’m part of the next generation of something new, or the final generation of something already turning into mist.”
As someone trying to step out of their comfort zone in their mid-40s I feel this regularly. 🙏
I am a decade-long supporter of the loose association that began as Dark Mountain. Dougald Hine is a sublime spokesperson for the links between past, now, and future of what he terms
'ruins'. Your contribution and gifted comments on his work and the session you attended are brilliant. A real bridge to understanding a realistic, difficult, yet hopeful position that we need to come to. Thank you for including the comments by the elder Native American....so revealing. Thank you for your especially potent revisitation of 'myth'. Your translation of a modern prophet is more than splendid and so so necessary .
well said, my friend! all of it, and I esp. loved (and will steal) your phrase "elder cultures." And here's a thought: at 78, I'm living in an additional, constant state of "not knowing" -- will today be the day that I die? Will I wake up tomorrow? Or will it be the day I lose my spouse, my best friend, my....? And I find myself thinking "this is the way we're supposed to live, part of the modernity con is that we grew up believing something else was possible......"
R. G., this is exquisitely written. Thank you. I am glad Dougald's visit had it's way with you, as it did with me a week later a ways up river. With care, Adam
Enjoyed all of this but especially: “I don’t know if the trade I’m learning from people like Dougald will be one I can ever pass on. Don’t know if I’ll get a chance to do a book tour of my own. Don’t know if I’m part of the next generation of something new, or the final generation of something already turning into mist.”
As someone trying to step out of their comfort zone in their mid-40s I feel this regularly. 🙏
man, it's tough out there. gotta keep trying though. thanks for the support!
I am a decade-long supporter of the loose association that began as Dark Mountain. Dougald Hine is a sublime spokesperson for the links between past, now, and future of what he terms
'ruins'. Your contribution and gifted comments on his work and the session you attended are brilliant. A real bridge to understanding a realistic, difficult, yet hopeful position that we need to come to. Thank you for including the comments by the elder Native American....so revealing. Thank you for your especially potent revisitation of 'myth'. Your translation of a modern prophet is more than splendid and so so necessary .
thank you so much! very happy to be helping the cause. i'm so glad you enjoyed the essay.
Loved this, thank you.
well said, my friend! all of it, and I esp. loved (and will steal) your phrase "elder cultures." And here's a thought: at 78, I'm living in an additional, constant state of "not knowing" -- will today be the day that I die? Will I wake up tomorrow? Or will it be the day I lose my spouse, my best friend, my....? And I find myself thinking "this is the way we're supposed to live, part of the modernity con is that we grew up believing something else was possible......"
R. G., this is exquisitely written. Thank you. I am glad Dougald's visit had it's way with you, as it did with me a week later a ways up river. With care, Adam