self-determination – Kevin Ray Archer

Thomas Moran, Slave Hunt in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1862

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #20: Maroon

Published February 19, 2018 by Kevin

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #20: Maroon visits communities that most of us never knew existed. For over 200 years, men, women, and children escaped American…

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Making Time with Mrs. Fisher

Compound Tomato Sauce - Mrs Fisher, 1881

Making Time with Mrs. Fisher

Published June 24, 2014 by Kevin

“What hath been done may be done again. Old Arts when they have been long lost, are sometimes recovered again and pass for new inventions.”…

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Kobayashi Maru on Wry

Published April 9, 2013 by Kevin

I want to pick up the thought I left at the end of the previous entry. The idea that I appeared as my own ‘deus…

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Deus ex machina

Published March 29, 2013 by Kevin

There are these moments of realization. Some come swiftly: Sitting in your hermitage above Mendocino, staring at the Pacific arc, vision folds in upon itself…

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Effecting a Coup

Published March 22, 2013 by Kevin

In the past few weeks, I effected—and was affected by—a coup d’etat. I was both the usurper and the usurped. I survived victoriously. I want…

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Small Faces, a baker, and your dinner…

Published October 15, 2010 by Kevin

This entry first appeared at Crazy Sexy Life, Oct. 15, 2010 (http://crazysexylife.com/2010/how-love-leads-to-purpose) In an increasingly-obscure song by the Small Faces, circa 1968, a man follows…

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Tag: self-determination

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #20: Maroon

Making Time with Mrs. Fisher

Kobayashi Maru on Wry

Deus ex machina

Effecting a Coup

Small Faces, a baker, and your dinner…