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    Not right, nor orderly.
    Not right, nor orderly.
    KennethDaly
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    KennethDaly
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    Ongoing, First published Nov 09, 2014
    The phrase "not right, nor orderly" comes from John Donne's poem, "An Anatomie of the World," written on the first anniversary of "the untimely death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury," the 14 year old daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury.  The poet uses her death to represent "the frailty and the decay of this whole world."  
        
        Wee are borne ruinous: poor mothers cry,
        That children come not right, nor orderly;
        Except they headlong come and fall upon
        An ominous precipitation.
        
        Here I am using "not right, nor orderly" to describe how the years of my life have come along "headlong," more and more so as I head into my eighth decade.  I do not feel, however, that I was "borne ruinous," nor that I am falling "upon/An ominous precipitation."  Figuring out whether or how much Donne really felt so pessimistic about life is one of the pleasures of reading his poem.  In some ways, this poem can be read as an expression of the impermanence of this world.  Donne was a Christian minister, but his Anatomie conveys views similar to two other teachers who have shaped my life:  Heraclitus and Siddhatha Gotama.  But the point of these pieces is not literary explication.  For that kind of analysis, you can check out my blog www.drivingwithnohands.com.
        
        “Not right, nor orderly” also describes how these pieces present scenes from my life in no particular order, not chronological, nor logical.  “Narrative” has become quite buzzword in the last few decades.  From “narrative medicine” and “narrative therapy” to Alasdair MacIntyre’s philosophical grounding of selfhood in narrative.  I don’t know whether or not I have a “life story,” but I do have many stories from my life to tell here.
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    Table of contents
    • Our Lady of the R7
      Sun, Nov 9, 2014
    • Titusville
      Mon, Nov 10, 2014
    • The mud season
      Mon, Nov 10, 2014
    • Meeting Liu Mei
      Mon, Nov 10, 2014
    • In Kenya, on the train with Bobby Kennedy.
      Tue, Nov 11, 2014
    • How to make a grand entrance
      Thu, Nov 13, 2014
    • Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Connecticut anymore.
      Thu, Nov 13, 2014
    • It was a dark and stormy night.
      Tue, Nov 18, 2014
    • Mrs. Gordon and the "apple lady."
      Tue, Dec 2, 2014
    • The road to Amung'enti
      Mon, Dec 8, 2014
    • Why old men go shopping
      Fri, Dec 12, 2014
    • All I want for Christmas is a Swahili word.
      Tue, Dec 23, 2014
    • Caminante.
      Sun, Jan 11, 2015
    • Back to work
      Mon, Jan 12, 2015
    • The vegetarian
      Tue, Jan 13, 2015
    • Cold
      Wed, Jan 14, 2015
    • Tea
      Thu, Jan 15, 2015
    • La Folia
      Sat, Jan 17, 2015
    • But you're handling everything.
      Mon, Jan 19, 2015
    • Extra time.
      Wed, Jan 21, 2015
    • Saturday morning
      Fri, Jan 23, 2015
    • You're doing this for me. Sometimes.
      Sun, Jan 25, 2015
    • The shower.
      Mon, Jan 26, 2015
    • Breathing lightly.
      Tue, Jan 27, 2015
    • The violin parent
      Thu, Jan 29, 2015

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    The phrase "not right, nor orderly" comes from John Donne's poem, "An Anatomie of the World," written on the first anniversary of "the untimely death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury," the 14 year old daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury.  The poet uses her death to represent "the frailty and the decay of this whole world."  
        
        Wee are borne ruinous: poor mothers cry,
        That children come not right, nor orderly;
        Except they headlong come and fall upon
        An ominous precipitation.
        
        Here I am using "not right, nor orderly" to describe how the years of my life have come along "headlong," more and more so as I head into my eighth decade.  I do not feel, however, that I was "borne ruinous," nor that I am falling "upon/An ominous precipitation."  Figuring out whether or how much Donne really felt so pessimistic about life is one of the pleasures of reading his poem.  In some ways, this poem can be read as an expression of the impermanence of this world.  Donne was a Christian minister, but his Anatomie conveys views similar to two other teachers who have shaped my life:  Heraclitus and Siddhatha Gotama.  But the point of these pieces is not literary explication.  For that kind of analysis, you can check out my blog www.drivingwithnohands.com.
        
        “Not right, nor orderly” also describes how these pieces present scenes from my life in no particular order, not chronological, nor logical.  “Narrative” has become quite buzzword in the last few decades.  From “narrative medicine” and “narrative therapy” to Alasdair MacIntyre’s philosophical grounding of selfhood in narrative.  I don’t know whether or not I have a “life story,” but I do have many stories from my life to tell here.

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    • The shower.
      Mon, Jan 26, 2015
    • Breathing lightly.
      Tue, Jan 27, 2015
    • The violin parent
      Thu, Jan 29, 2015
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