Commonplace

Technology is the active human interface with the material world. We make something and that making changes us; we are made as we make. The tools are not trivial or neutral. A tool is a way of paying attention, and it shapes the questions we can ask. If all you have is a hammer, you are invited to see everything as a nail. If you carry a different tool, the world opens in another direction. This is not an argument against tools; it is a reminder that our tools are arguments, and we should choose which arguments we live inside.

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. If you pay attention, you can learn to shape the change you live through, and if you don't, it will shape you. There is no other teacher as faithful as the present moment.

The story, the real story, is not about the hero. It is about what the people carried. It is about the bag and the burden, the gathered seeds, the long walk, the shared water. It is a tale of hands, not of fists. It describes not a line of conquest but a net of relations, not a climax but a sustaining. It tells how we continue: how we carry, how we share, how we begin again.

The artist must know, or must be able to learn, that there is nothing more dangerous than the need to be safe. The artist's responsibility is to disturb the peace, to reveal what the mind would prefer to hide, and to help us see ourselves as we are. We do this with courage, with love, and with the refusal to accept a world in which the unexamined can pass for the true.