Podcasts of Soul/Sole
Sermons:


Bernadette Mayer
Rebecca Solnit
Cooley Windsor

The word "sermon" has evolved in meaning over time: from "conversation" to "discourse", described as a lengthy speech delivered with great passion. Early sermons were delivered in the form of question and answer, and only later did it come to mean a monologue. Futurefarmers commissioned Bernadette Mayer, writer/activist Rebecca Solnit, and fiction writer, Cooley Windsor to create a series of contemporary and relevant "Soul/Sole Sermons" which were read aloud at the Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village, Manhattan and at the Guggenheim Museum and later printed upon the Pedestrian Press. The Soul/Sole Sermons contemplate this space between the two soul/soles - one being something that has its feet planted on the ground and one that has various contested meanings historically and culturally- a definition that floats-while both are highly crafted either by hand or through symbology, language, things and media.

Bernadette Mayer
Integrative Paleontology:
The Paleontologist Is Barefoot Today


Poet and Author of Midwinter Day

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Aristotle did us all a great disservice On the surface of carboniferous flakes By famously avocating cause & effect Fossil leaves carry the fine veins we know We'd all have been better off going sideways or backward Like or from living leaves Things don't lead upward & get improved If it seems soulless to attribute Nor is everything higher better The glories of arboreal form North isn't up South isn't down To natural design alone My dog Hector never wore shoes Underestimating an appropriate sense of wonder Socrates, a cynic, used to hang out At the extraordinary & creative inventiveness At the shop of Simon the shoemaker Which life has repeatedly shown Where he found thought more relevant I became a land-dwelling mammal in a house That of sandaled kings




Cooley Windsor
Futurefarmers Rosary: A Series of Spiritual Excercises for Perceiving the Soul

Author of Visit Me in California

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Imagine yourself as transparent as glass, and everything that is inside you can be seen by the environment that you are in. You do not need to offer words or thoughts or change anything, just imagine that everything that is inside you can be seen by whatever is outside of you. This is an offering, and what is being offered is your soul.

Rebecca Solnit
A Road Made by Walking

Activist and author of Wanderlust

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Walkers are dissidents, and vice versa, and if you were to imagine them all walking together, the banner would say what the insurrectionary Zapatistas of southern Mexico often said as a policy position and ideal: "caminando preguntamos," or "walking, we ask questions." To walk is to venture into the unknown, to persevere, to push into the unknown, to recognize that the journey is never finished and the truth never comprehensive; that you have to keep going with a hope that is not a hope for completion but for continuation of the process; and that it's always improvisational and never complete. The very restlessness of pedestrianism is itself a mode of questioning, a way of being in the world.