John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readMar 21, 2023

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I think renewal as much more elemental, than just "nature worship." From babies being born to new stores starting in older buildings. Like grass pushing up through the concrete, the new pushes through where the old is weaker, or more flexible, so it isn't yet completely defined and definite.

Our mental tendency seems to try to define everything down to the smallest detail, otherwise the assumption is it can't be quite clear, but that creates a situation where there is no room for spontaneity and thus growth, so either it is frozen for eternity, or it eventually can only die.

Like a wave is only fully defined as it crests, but after that, it recedes.

So tradition is when the form is "set in stone." The Overton window is closed, or at the very least has bars over it. Then if the the new can't exist in the boxes set out for it, it either rebels, or finds somewhere outside the parameter to grow.

The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.

One reaching for the future, the other defining the past, meeting in the present.

Energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

Like galaxies.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Having an affair with life. It's complicated.

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