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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.

A doctor learns to ask completely different questions in service to his patients, and the power dynamic shifts.

https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/humane-endeavor/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 3, 2015January 3, 2015

Bad behavior is easy, but so is good–my new radio essay.

http://wvpe.org/post/internet-troll

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 2, 2015January 2, 2015

“Public conversations create accountability for communal leadership on the most divisive issues.”

http://forward.com/articles/211889/the-benefits-of-airing-deep-splits-among-jews/?utm_content=DailyNewsletter_TopArea_Position-3_Headline&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Weekly + Daily&utm_campaign=Weekly_Newsletter_Friday 2015-01-02

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 2, 2015

“Group Leaders Form Independent Redistricting Coalition” to challenge Indiana’s customary legislative power plays.

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/group-leaders-form-independent-redistricting-coalition-75809/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 2, 2015

“Building for the community puts people at the end of the process. Building with community puts them at the start.”

http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/308137/what-are-your-tech-and-social-media-resolutions-for-2015/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 2, 2015January 2, 2015

“A packed, multiethnic urban community..could only be held together by a rapidly formed collective memory.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/21/witter-and-nstagram-users-can-learn-a-lot-about-capturing-the-zeitgeist-from-a-1920s-hicago-journ

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 2, 2015

For Annie Proulx, fiction pays attention to something in particular and a love story might not be a love story.

http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2015/01/01/#a1420140539

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 1, 2015January 1, 2015

Generosity 101. “There is much more in the Archives.” (A sentence you like to see at a magazine’s website.)

http://killingthebuddha.com/

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 22, 2014December 22, 2014

In school, we focus on the private life, ignoring democracy. Eg., see this “Citizenship in the digital age” poster.”

http://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=192

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 22, 2014December 22, 2014

Twenty ways of paying better attention.

View at Medium.com

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 22, 2014

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