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Semaphore & Cairn

—–message systems and citizenship—–

  • Semaphore Modern
  • Cairn Everlasting

Author: Ken Smith

These pieces were not written by the late British poet, Ken Smith (1938-2003), nor the other Ken Smiths who make bass guitars, study marine biology, sell cars, teach card counting, paint war scenes in oils, guide bear hunters in Idaho, teach forest management, study immunology, do war reporting, sell real estate, photograph nature, teach cryptology, provide legal counsel to the gay and lesbian community, realign the spines of athletes, listen for seismic faults in the Sierra Nevadas, operate a 4-axis milling machine, work for sustainable development in Alberta, play blackjack, or criticize Junk English. Nor were the pieces written by the Ken Smith who is “the Elvis Costello of Landscape Architecture” nor the one who serves in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives nor the one who hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves in 1983. I only wish.

Sherpa as a metaphor: “someone so skilled at carrying weight for others that no one knew anything of her burdens.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/11/22/the-rules-of-psychotherapy/

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 23, 2014November 23, 2014

Public utilities like the water supply must be regulated to protect the public. Broadband is a public utility.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/18/john-hodgman-the-government-should-be-laying-down-broadband-like-eisenhower-laid-down-interstates/

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 20, 2014November 20, 2014

John Hodgman: ‘The government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates’.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/18/john-hodgman-the-government-should-be-laying-down-broadband-like-eisenhower-laid-down-interstates/

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 20, 2014November 20, 2014

“Treat the people we expect the least of in the way we all want to be treated.” The Bard Prison Initiative.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/amazing-results-when-you-give-prison-inmate-liberal-arts-education-180953041/

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 19, 2014November 19, 2014

The Amazing Results When You Give a Prison Inmate a Liberal Arts Education.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/amazing-results-when-you-give-prison-inmate-liberal-arts-education-180953041/

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 19, 2014November 19, 2014

“Treat the people we expect the least of in the way we all want to be treated.” The Bard Prison Initiative.

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 19, 2014November 19, 2014

“He pushes you to ask questions. It frustrated me at the time. I was 19, I was looking for answers.”

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/amazing-results-when-you-give-prison-inmate-liberal-arts-education-180953041/?all&no-ist

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 19, 2014

“This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.” Moments of connection in a place devoted to distances.

Gate A-4

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 18, 2014November 18, 2014

Some ways that social media can serve or even catalyze women’s activism. “Kolkata Women Mobilize Against Violence.”

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/kolkata-women-mobilize-against-violence1

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 18, 2014

A dictator subsumes the state. Toss out a dictator and for a time you have no state, says Hisham Matar.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/consequences-dreams

Ken Smith Uncategorized November 18, 2014

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