A Country Rag
Word Preserve ~ Volume 4
"...Well, I think consciousness is a multi-dimensional force, and the world
of the popular imagination, the dream world of gods and spirits is being
dominated by the culture industry of images and information. The technology
that supports that is vampirically drawing attention and energy to sustain
itself in a way that you might consider demonic. But I think that there are
finer layers of awareness and consciousness that are actually being
expanded, at least within some groups, by technologies that are showing us
how our brains, and so reality, works and is maintained....
I think the developed world is due for some very weird reactionary
forms. Enthusiastic schizo symptoms - an increasingly mean and selfish form
of Darwinism, saying we're just selfish genes trying to compete in a hostile
environment. Such old ideas will be recycled in even more pernicious forms. I
think that we're going to find ourselves relating interpersonally with
machines, whether or not they're actually alive or conscious in a way that
scientists can debate about...." -- Interview with Eric Davis, Fortean TimesGraphic: raised paper, Margaret Gregg, Mill 'N Creek Studio Gallery, Limestone, TN
Appalachian HomeScene Questions & AnswersStand Up! Through The Looking Glass
by Carolyn Moore
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Another Sideby Jeannette Harris"Diamonds"
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By Faith Aloneby Eunice Soper"Following The Light," "The Little Lamp," and "When The Deserts Bloom" "Silent Messenger," "Weakest of the Weak," and "Messenger at Work" "Cowardly Rooster," "Grand Canyon Mule," and "When Nobody Loves"
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Country Reckoningby Heather Jett"The Essential Woman: Using Herbs"
by Daryl Lease
by Jonathan Bentley Eccard
by James Ross Wiley
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Distilled Spiritsby James Ross WileyAutumn Leaves, Winter Arrives" and "Great-Grandpa Was a Moonshiner"
by Jeannette Harris |
Gloria!by Gary Frink"A Courier's Adventure in Old Jerusalem"
by Janet Buck
by Janet Buck
by Patricia Talbert
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"I think that our faith is full of atheists and agnostics.... Not enough of them have really had an experience, have really been embraced, have really felt themselves dissolve in the midst of a prayer and felt that the prayer was praying them.... A great religion affirms other religions. A great culture affirms other cultures. A great nation affirms other nations. A great individual affirms other individuals, validates the beingness of others. "
-- Leonard Cohen, interview, The Jewish Book News
graphic: Monk, wood carving, Don Muscher, Luray, VA
Holler Notesby Don Silvius"A Little Mystery?" and "Birth of a Legend"
"The Strength of a Team is Greater" "High Tide, April 1863" and "Brock's Gap" "Why Do We Do This To Ourselves?"
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The Line Cellarby John Waybright
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A Muse 'N Toonby Don and Sandy Smith
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Occasional Treatsby Irene Culver"The Cure," "2001" and "Singing"
by Doug Tanoury
by Jane Bowman
by Daryl Lease
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Rivers Sideby jessica clarke"Wanting," "Passing relief," "What they'll meet"
by Grace Willetts
by Jeannette Harris
by MaryAnn Hazen
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Rural Reviewby Don Silvius "Everything You Want" andby Scott Nicholson "Die With It In You, Frankie"
by Don Silvius
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Rustic Refrainby Ray Arrowood"The Appalachian Trail: A How-To Guide"
by Ron Elliott and Diane Elliott by Jim Morgan
by Seth Abramson
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Word Preserve
Archives Volume 3 |
graphic: Salt House, watercolor by Vera Jones, Jonesborough, TN.
Now that day has wearied me,
shall my passionate desire
be received by starry night,
kindly, like a weary child.
Cease, hands from all activity,
forget, brow, about all thought,
my senses, all of them,
would now sink in slumber.
And, unwatched, the soul
would hover on free wings
to live, in night's magic circle,
profoundly and thousandfold.
-- "Beim Schlafengehen" (On Going to Sleeep) by Hermann Hesse
Where the heck am I?
Original material © A Country Rag April, 1996, 1999. All rights reserved.