Kyle R. Conway

Category: words

  • repeating important stories forever

    Sometimes I am enamored with a phrase.

    …common knowledge depends on us repeating important stories forever.

    @h2onolan

    The context of the phrase (a tweet) is below, but the context only shrinks the meanings of the phrase.

    Allow the expansive context to be the one you let the phrase hold: stories are important to the passage of knowledge and must be told forever.

    The wonderful artist Nina Paley drew this (though in yet another context) nearly a decade ago.

    We are the material through which information flows.

    Nina Paley – https://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/
    Nina Paley – https://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/

    May we be great conduits for stories. May we :repeat them forever.

  • ever to the fore!

    NORTH POLE
    DISCOVERED BY POOH
    POOH FOUND IT.

    – Winnie-the-Pooh (now, this next morning, gloriously in the public domain)
    It recently occurred to me
    that whatever might happen in the future ― (?)
    and whatever has happened is in the past ― (!)
    that the present moment is
    magic

    I find myself sitting
    in the final hours of 2021
    waiting

    I'm waiting for things to settle down
    I'm waiting for things to catch up
    I'm waiting for Winnie-the-Pooh to enter the public domain
    (Finally!)

    I'm waiting for the future
    that isn't here yet

    And when I found myself waiting
    I started typing about waiting
    but not just typing

    first I had to decide which application to use
    and then to adjust the background color of the application
    and then search for ways to increase the font size on my 4k monitor

    and all of this after removing a corroded battery 
    from a long forgotten Bluetooth trackpad
    that had been discarded by my father
    earlier in the day
    and delivered safely
    into the hands
    of the tech junkie
    whose fingers
    now type
    this sad
    tale 
    of woe

    Or maybe not...

    I took a break
    made root beer floats
    ate crackers
    and weird cheese
    laughed

    I came back here to write about what happened
    back then
    a few minutes ago
    back when a few minutes ago
    was the present

    it was nice.

    And I'm still excited for Winnie-the-Pooh
    and "Someone to Watch Over Me"
    and others I don't know about yet

    I look forward to the future
    because I look forward to my presence there

    but I have to remember
    that I'm present here now

    is there a simpler way to say this?
    why write it at all?
    what's the point?

    To remind present me
    and future me
    (and present you)
    to stop waiting
    and reminiscing
    (at least do it less)
    and start
    existing
    right here
    and right now

    Why write it down?
    maybe someday
    a future version of me
    will heed the current words of now present me
    cobbled from the thoughts and experiences of past me
    and exist

    ...or maybe not.

    Either way,
    Happy New Year!

    May the past be past
    the future bright
    and the present go
    ever to the fore!

  • Words

    Words

    I make words
    in place of thoughts
    in place of feelings
    in place of truth

    I make words
    without thought
    without feeling
    without truth

    I make
    in place of
    in place of
    in place of

    I make
    without
    without
    without

    I
    make

    I
    place

    I
    without

    I
    you
    all of us
    together
    without words
    (breathe)