sing and play • gary e. davis • berkeley


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	Oh, yes: sing and play! gary e. davis	June 12, 2026

Oh, yes: sing and play! Enjoy whiling away free time aimlessly.

Yet, when all’s going well, a life may want to pursue sporting craft, even gaining excellence that’s called “art”—though authentic crafting goes its own way regard-
less of possible reception.

In particular, relative to ordinary life, conceptual venturing easily seems nebulous, oblique, opaque, “spiritual,” like winds personified, being an aimless poetic.

A conceptual player (philological, philosophical) intimates a Song of the Earth given to night, as if constellating careless stars without need of being heard.

After all, the point of flourishing is to be fun. So, the conceptual venturer is
in secret league with aimless play?

Spirit, by the way, is—to my mind—enspirational: aspirational appeal, inspir-
ational cohering. Resultant excellence of a life, a personity (person-ality) of cyclical play—growing up, achieving a lot, paying forward, moving on—embodies cultural presence singularly, being manifoldly lucid telic cohering of its example.

Yet, the best presence of life in play echoes a spirit of ancestral efficacy of better humanity whose wind is literary and intrinsically futural by way of tropal eco-
spheres (conceptual pretenses and implicatures): surrounds of better worldliness, better ways We are what We do, oriented by better humanity. “[T]elic efficacy of appellant cohering was always the implicit calling of ‘spiritual’ life,” I noted last winter.

Such a conception of minding is a long way from sacred text which endures for generations because it’s made of constellated folklores and wisdoms of survivors paying forward with scribed plays for influence.

Now, ensuring fidelity to humanity’s well-defined, ecologically flourishing futurity may call for comprehension which is beyond anyone’s ability to constellate how
to best design and be excellently.

Yet, they do what they can to find leading minds to convene “at the edge of
the world’s knowledge,” which always has its particular ending, hopefully exem-
plifying high comprehension to be furthered by new generations.

As exemplary comprehension beyond the genre of sacred text (canonic aspir-
ation) integrally belongs with the appeal of flourishing across generations, “’spirituality’ becomes an evolutionary trope.”

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