preface 2023 • gary e. davis • berkeley


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	preface to “cohering lightness” gary e. davis	June 2023

I was enthused about beginning a new cycle of my main project (the unnamed “Project currently”), so the “aspects...” section below began the new page for cycle 5. I may have seemed a little didactic.

My feeling was that my transition to a new sense of project was so engaged with desire to be more conceptual that I needed to avow my practicality, as well as keeping a sense of lightness about pretense.

I’m living a “Janus-faced” engagement of conceptual venturing while never for-
getting that pragmatic thinking matters.

-|- June, 2023

Enough about “humanity” already?

Well, that’s my “god”: evolving humanity.

And there’s enough inhumanity already (urban, military, and primative),
which goes on and on and on like a species barely emerged from a jungle; and
still possessed by ethereal personifications of aspiration and authority which
don’t stop inhumanity.

So another year arrived, pandemic marginalized, and a principle-based global order managing to prevail, which causes wanting to focus more conceptually
than during most months of last year, in light of protean affections of autumn (part of prospecting and gardening during recent years).