Stagtine, 1. A Letter From The Author

An introductory letter to the reader of Stagtine.

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D. Firth Griffith reading Stagtine to baby Amergin

A Letter From The Author

Dear Regeneration,

I was wrong. It was not you. It was me. Is me.

Starting out in this story, we find ourselves nestled but unsettled in some perplexity. I am hesitant to name this thing, this story and its imaginative and creative sciences, as names gives us something to hold on to but also something that allows us to feel like we can hold anything at all. The best somethings cannot be held—a red-tail in flight, a white spring speckled ungulate under her oaken bungalow, a yellow-orange eyed feather that at once flutters by my head and at once also flutters by yours, a passing smile, a moment, Earth.

I give this trilogy away under the guise of “kincentric rewilding.” But make no mistake. We do not have time for such mistakes. It is only a guise, a veil on this happy day that will pass, mature, and transform into something else very soon. Life is change and we live on an orb of ever bouncing particles that also seems like an ever changing playground of impermanence and this change makes life what it is: beautiful and real. This impermanence is also a guise. Make no mistake about it. Unhappy impermanence is degeneration in the fullest sense and happy impermanence is what kincentric rewilding wants to be: stalwartly in place but also unwaveringly waving across the pull of time. Anything permanent mocks life’s impermanence and everything impermanent becomes more eternal when it decides to be more temporal. In place, here, now.

If this book was better published, it would have been titled Kincentric Rewilding and not Stagtine. If this book was better published, it would have been written to convince you that Kincentric Rewilding is the next fad, what will soon be in vogue, and what will soon save the world. If this book was better published, it would capitalize Kincentric Rewilding as a term, a human-created phrase to copyright and trademark and own. If this book was better published, it would be a published book that was well positioned to sell and not a gift that will position you to live, actually and fully (if you have yet to do so, turn back a few pages and read the copyright). 

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