Radical Middle…
Since my teen-years in the ’60s and continuing still, I have sought out people, books, and now websites and blogs that offer brain-fodder for issues important to me. While I had seen references to and comments from Amba on several sites, it was only this morning through a link from Tamar that I finally visited AmbivaBlog. Self-described as being in the “radical-middle” politically, Amba excels in providing balanced, objective, and non-controversial (to the extent these subjects can be!) discourse on issues ranging from Intelligent Design to Abortion to the lighter side of life.
Much of Amba’s writing is to be neither agreed with or rejected, rather used as additional clay for adding to the potter’s wheel of your mind. Extremely well articulated, as we might expect from a professional author and writer, this is probably the only site I have ever linked to on the first visit - sort of like kissing on first date - and one that I will return to often for guidance in the ongoing quest for locating my moral and ethical benchmarks.
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Amba’s writing often takes my breath away. Here’s one example:
“We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter…it’s the way friends make love to one another. ”
… and another:
“What about us bloggers? … Or are we — at least in the meantime — creating a charmed third space where we do what we do for the sheer intrinsic pleasure of it, and for the eyes of a non-mass audience of our peers?”
… and this most recent one that I love because I believe she captures the inside me so well, as well as the way she writes it:
“And if you read it all, including the links to childhood games, you will witness a remarkable example of the thematic consistency of a life . . . A simple but haunting folk melody is sketched in childhood. It returns fully orchestrated in maturity, but it’s the same melody.”
at:
http://ambivablog.typepad.com/ambivablog/2005/07/tamar_the_inter.html
What a find, eh Winston?
heh… if you like the radical middle, then check out my site, although my site is more specialized, as I’m tying to beat the politics right out of my subject of choice…
http://evolutionarydesign.blogspot.com/
Lovely vindication for the late-kissed teenage geek in me!
Thanks! I look forward to visiting here.
Winston, look for a:whatever in your stylesheet. Change the color of ‘em there. They may be in several places, like one for content and one for sidebar/menu.
and yes, I had fun cruising the Amba site earlier.