To One Not Named
Coleridge wrestled with the concept of imagination and it's relation to the world-- both concrete and spiritual. He sought unity between the world of senses and the world of the spirit.
Perhaps " imaginative reconciliation" is that process where unity becomes a possibility.
I'll borrow the phrase and turn it to my own ends. Imaginative conjures up an inventive state --perhaps illusory, perhaps fertile, perhaps chimerical. It may also be original, creative, even mythic.
Reconciliation brings to mind forgiveness, absolution, pardon. It also carries a framework of accommodation, of peace offering, of an olive branch. The effect may be a consonance-- the awareness of congruity.
If, after decades, we sat down to talk and spread out the shawl we once wove and removed lines of yarn then stepped back to look at the lines we left-- could we imagine a different pattern?
And if so is forgiveness possible?
Perhaps " imaginative reconciliation" is that process where unity becomes a possibility.
I'll borrow the phrase and turn it to my own ends. Imaginative conjures up an inventive state --perhaps illusory, perhaps fertile, perhaps chimerical. It may also be original, creative, even mythic.
Reconciliation brings to mind forgiveness, absolution, pardon. It also carries a framework of accommodation, of peace offering, of an olive branch. The effect may be a consonance-- the awareness of congruity.
If, after decades, we sat down to talk and spread out the shawl we once wove and removed lines of yarn then stepped back to look at the lines we left-- could we imagine a different pattern?
And if so is forgiveness possible?
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