https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-07-08T05:46:28+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/feeding-on-illusions robertogrecolmssacasas mandybrown ursulakleguin ursulaleguin 2026 ai artificialintelligence hannaharendt generativeai humannaess human friendship community process howwewrite chatgpt calligraphy friction matthewbattles genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1dbdeaccb434/ 2026-07-03T07:04:10+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/a-prayer-for-limits robertogrecoOur relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a “limit” — incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability — tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship. And yet we must remember that humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them…. It is precisely within our limitations that the following find a place: compassion, as well as a sincere concern for the needs of others; a generosity that can emerge even in the midst of darkness and failure; spiritual experience and the worship of God…. Mysteriously, it is precisely in such moments that we can discover a new wisdom, tangibly experience the closeness of others and encounter the presence of the Lord. I found myself wanting not merely to assent to these words, but to pray with them. It was a curious and inexorable feeling. I have not made a practice of composing and sharing prayers; but a spiritual confidante whose fellowship I trust has encouraged me to share this one. And so here is a prayer for our limits, offered not for intercession or supplication but in adoration: It is through your love, O Lord, that we learn to love our limits, which give force to our compassion and shape to the fear we feel for others in their need; which nurture our generosity even as we fall and fail; which frame and enfold our measures of adoration. Confronted as we shall be by rejection, grieving as we must at the loss of all we hold dear, quaking as we do in the face of our failures, may we gather our wits, sense your nearness, and come to rest in the embrace of our entanglement. We suffer from these limits and we learn from them. Without them, we would cease yearning even for love. To love, to learn, and to desire is to wound and be wounded. What a gift it is to be drawn into your woundedness, into this adventure of failure and freedom, disappointment and dream. In you, we affirm the tragedy and splendor and glorious mystery of being your body together; with you, we choose the human."]]> matthewbattles 2026 popeleoxiv magnificahumanitas encyclicals ai artificialintelligence catholicchurch catholicism antónbarba-kay technology siliconvalley lmsacasas technocracy utility tools environment marshallmcluhan perception resistance matthewsitman samadler-bell jackhanson beauty grace life living limits incapacity illness age aging suffering vulnerability humanity humanism compassion wisdom experience prayer spirituality failure freedom disappointment entanglement human humanness humans knowyourenemy friction frictionlessness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7e82e1856b5/ 2026-04-22T03:59:37+00:00 https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/21/iris-murdoch-our-ability-to.html robertogreco matthewbattles irismurdoch 2026 ai artificialintelligence discernment criticalthinking chatbots morality moralsurrender human humans humanism humanity cognition cognitivesurrender consciousness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d2f61e60cfbb/ 2025-12-24T06:40:59+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/for-want-of-a-story robertogreco matthewbattles teaching howweteach pedagogy education highered highereducation learning howwelearn christopheralexander shopfrontschools networkedlearning paulelie pilgrimage workgroups social fellowship trust patterns apatternlanguage 2025 saraishikawa murraysilverstein presence process sharedstory story shelter intimacy uncertainty vulnerability https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69ff66758f08/ 2025-04-09T22:02:57+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/promises-to-the-past robertogrecoTenderness is first of all I suppose—first of all one has to begin with the fact, which everyone has always known until recently, that life is full of pain—not only pain—but it has a lot of pain, and tenderness is in part a response to that. But it is also something else. It seems to me that it is a refusal to judge. It seems to me that actions have to be judged with an incredible rigor and all the time declared. There is so much that has to be judged, so much that has to be denounced, and also so much that has to be praised. But not people. I do not think that we have the right of any final judgment of anybody. And tenderness is in a way an expression of that refusal to judge. I hear a song in these words, or a chant, which is to say, a prayer. For rigor when it comes to actions; for song as the tenderness of language."]]> 2025 matthewbattles ancestors multispecies birds nature morethanhuman ancestry tenderness nightengales life living jognberger death dead time presence poetry samlee art place timetravel temporality interspecies genetics foucault michelfoucault existence poems https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e38e0cfc1ae5/ 2025-03-11T06:25:57+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/full-of-trees-and-changing-leaves robertogreco matthewbattles multispecies morethanhuman insects animals mimicry hummingbirds moths birds nature wildlife adolescence youth intelligence plants https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:95cda9dcf9f0/ 2025-02-09T06:22:33+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/grief-is-a-cave-in-the-middle-of robertogreco matthewbattles thoreau 2025 grief grieving elizabethbishop walden multispecies morethanhuman brankaarsić ernstreijseger wernerherzog dieterplage 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