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The Pinnacle

 

Havana

I was in kindergarten when my mother told me that my dad would take care of me and my younger brother while she went to the hospital to deliver another baby brother. Instead I took my brother to school with me, but school was closed as it was a holiday.
Dad found us and took us to Aunt Lula’s house, but I had other plans when she said it was time to take a nap. I didn’t take naps, so I left and went to my grandmother’s house around the block. Grandma wasn’t home because she had gone to the cemetery to decorate graves. It was a long time ago, but I remember it was raining. Cousin Otto formed a search party and found me crying at grandma’s back door. He told me that I wouldn’t have to take a nap, and for a bonus I watched as he made me a banjo out of a cigar box.
Jerome Edward Springs was born on May 28th.

The Turning Point

Young and Growing, Older and Wiser: Denver Poets for Change in America

 

Young and Growing, Older and Wiser: Denver Poets for Change in America
Sunday August 22, 2004
Mercury Cafe, 22nd Street and California, Denver
Beloved Friends,
The title is the whole project, the mission statement, which came to me in the shower one morning recently. We got poets together for a "feed-and-read" community gathering at the Mercury Cafe, two professional portable video cameras and recording equipment, to produce a thirty minute DVD we have sent to a hundred public-access television stations. No ulterior motives here, no negatives, no vitriol, no partisanship;just positive hope for the future. We need to participate openly at the community level for the sake of our country and the world.
There is pure harmony here. There is hope. There is whole positivity. Change for us is growth only (for degeneration and dissipation need not be expressed; despair is not growth, not art). Each of us and all of us are poets, making music, making art with words. We come together to read the rhythm and the image of America's growth. No one tells you what to say; they cannot,for this is America and our speech is free, our imaginations unlimited. All of us are artists: this is for great-grandmothers and grade school children, workers and wanderers, small boys and tall girls of any age—especially for those of us who may have been silent until today. Walt Whitman will swell with pride.
I have been relieved of the burden of my own ego and thank goodness I have a day job (for no one ever made a living as a poet;. > can underwrite the basic expenses of the food and of the technical costs of production of our DVD of this American spiritual communion. Those of you who have day jobs also are welcome to contribute modestly toward the expenses (not so much as to threaten to inflate your own egos to the bursting point, but perhaps enough to deflate mine). This is a We project, We the People. Here is the finished product, the DVD which includes the edited 28 minute artwork in words and images, sounds and color which we have sent gratis to a hundred of the public access television broadcasters. Whatever proceeds come from the sale of these DVDs will be used toward the technical expenses of production. Poets in other communities are welcome to gather as Young and Growing, Older and Wiser; Poets of New York and Santa Fe and San Francisco and Seattle and Tulsa and Cleveland... This doesn't belong to Nathan or to Denver but to America. It's our growth, our future.Thanks for your help.
Peace and Love. .Nathan
Executive Producers
Nathan Pollack Joe Lyon
Associate Producers
Louis Underbakke Tony Wagner Eugene Zandler Orville Springs Ken Greenley
Directed @ Edited by
Nathan Pollack (structure/continuity} Joe Lyon (remix/composition)
Musk
Chris Nathan
Cameras
Steven Flanders Joe Lyon
Fractal Plate Crtw
Zandler/Wagner/Lyon
Poets: Rose Leon, Ken Greenley, Sally Ortizjudah Freed, 8arb Test, Kane Ver!ey,Orvill Springs,Alex, Tony Wagner, Tom Parson, Cord ley Coit, Carson Reed, Nathan Pollack, Jerry Smaidone, Marilyn Megenity, Eugene Zandler,Titus Owen Coit, Carolyn Parry, Hal Small,and Wardell Montgomery Jr.
Cover Design
Noah Pollack

Alpha and Omega

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Dennis

Brother to Brother: On Persons and Their Lives




"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; "behold, all things are become new." (II Corinthians 5:17)
Every person has a life of his own, his one and only life, and that life he leads. Some are able to draw upon resources that for social, for physical, for historical, possibly for quite arbitrary reasons are unavailable to others. Some manage to give their lives a pattern, an over-allness, or the different measures of success that they have in making their lives of a piece.
And since it is not strained to recognize in such integration of a life, in the life of wholeness, something that, in many ages, for many cultures, has been in the nature of an ideal - a grace to be cultivated or a triumph to be won.*1
The most significant outcome of writing my autobiography is the establishment of a real relationship with God though his son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He gives my life a unity and a wholeness I never knew before. And what he did for me he can do for others, so I thank him and I praise him because he is worthy.
Jesus Christ allows me to forgive others as he forgives me; he allows me to love others because he first loved me. Mental connectedness is not simply indicative of personal identity, it is creative of it. Or better: mental connectedness is indicative of personal identity because it is creative of it. Mental connectedness is creative of personal identity because, on each occasion of its instantiation, it brings the person somewhat under the influence of his past. A mental event is assigned to a person because of its relation with some earlier event in his life: and when this happens, the relation ensures that the later event is a carrier of the influence of this earlier event, an influence that then pervades the person so that his biography is bound together even as it unfolds.
The present is tied to the past, a new past is thus constructed under whose influence the future may then be brought, and so the diachronic expansion of the person, his life, gets its unity.
And this tells us not only something about the special suitability of mental connectedness to be critical of personal identity but also something about the singular character of personal identity.
"The people of Indonesia, with some help from friends around the world, have done for their greatest monument what all the king's horses and all the king's men could not do for Humpty Dumpty. They have put Borobudur together."
"W. Brown Morton III, historic-preservation-consultant and Episcopal priest said, "Looking up, I could not see the top of the monument. It was lost from view. I believe this was deliberately done by the builders to illustrate dramatically the universal truth that you cannot see the end of your spiritual journey from its beginning. You must start out with faith alone."
"The monument to my American eyes looked much like a broken Humpty, all bits and pieces, but first impressions can truly deceive."2


Yours in Christ, Orville Springs



1Richard Wollheim
2National Geographic v. 163#1 Jan. 1981

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