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What Moves Us?

Are Spirits Metaphors or Realities

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Kale Zelden
Apr 19, 2022
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What makes things happen? Why do we talk about schools, or whiskey, or eras or teams as possessing “spirit”? 

Are spirits metaphors, stand-ins for the inexplicable?

When a child does something wrong, we ask “why did you do it?” 

And the child must contemplate the question. What I did when I was a kid was to shrug and say “I don’t know.” In a very real way…

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