Cloud Poetry

Latin creates a sense of sacred space and time to help focus on the sense of God’s otherness.

“The Signature of All Things” by Jacob Böhme, who suggests that God marked objects with a sign, a “signature” for their purpose: the concept that every object in the real world has some hidden meaning, and particularly how these signatures interact.

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A first century BC didactic poem by Lucretius (99-55 BC) explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.

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Excerpts from Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A history of walking”, 2000

Biblical, ancient, historical sacred texts from dead and living civilizations

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JG Ballard’s dystopian novel set in a waterlogged London

Excerpts from medieval Japanese author and Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō’s (1283-1352) Essays on Idleness, or Tsurezuregusa.

Baudelaire’s lovely poem encouraging drunkenness

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Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch

What difference does an atmosphere make to an environment, a situation, or a horizon of possible action?