INDEX TO BLOGS & LINKS

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General Information:

UNSETTLING-THINGS: A PLATFORM FOR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT GOODNESS

and the Human Project https://unsettling-things.com/

FAQ: https://unsettling-things.com/faq 

About the site: https://unsettling-things.com/about 

History: https://unsettling-things.com/history 

Author site: https://tinyurl.com/2ruraxju 

A link to Mashkinonge's book: https://tinyurl.com/3vwn577p

Subscription information: https://unsettling-things.com/subscribe 

The conversations so far:

CONVERSATIONS IN 2025

1. Just a talk: Introduction to the hosts. The site sells no services or products. It is a platform for conversations. Ground rules for the conversations about goodness. The beginning of a running-list of links to gifts and givers like Fred Gutenberg, Erich Fromm, Wendell Berry, and Habitat for Humanity. 9/12/2025 https://tinyurl.com/yf2cf554  

2. About the hosts: The idea of the Human Project is briefly explained and previous works by the hosts, such as Frameshifts and the Bulletins from Mashkinonge, are listed. 9/26/2025 https://tinyurl.com/2s3v3vyt   

3. An invitation This is the formal invitation sent out to the Fellowship of the Attentive (FOA) at the launch of the platform. It gives the rationale for the platform and describes the FOA. 9/26/2025 https://tinyurl.com/bdhsxdn6  

4. First responders The conversation about experts and first responders turns to the work of Thomas Brown, https://jthomasbrown.com/  who brings a poem and video to the platform. 9/26/2025 https://tinyurl.com/4y674fmu 

5. Memorials and Wound Treatment Ranging from Socrates and Rabbi Yochanan to works by Richard Rose and Philip Larkin, the participants talk about grief and how writing embodies memorials, and they try to explain what “talking about goodness” means—ending with more links to the running-list of “people doing something about goodness” like Brooke Vandervelde https://www.nightcaps.show/  , April Bair https://www.bairink.com/  Gayle Turner The Storytellers Channel, Inc., and Judy Henry https://tinyurl.com/yxk94ss9  , 10/22/2025 https://tinyurl.com/mpd9edcz 

6. U-T as a Wound Treatment Center The previous conversation continues: Can the arts be a Wound Treatment Center? The featured contribution is by Poet Derek Kannemeyer https://www.petalridge.com/, who also raises questions for future conversations. 10/22/2025 https://tinyurl.com/mr2stmas 

7. PREFACES. What are the aspirations that sustain us to do good work? Derek Kannemeyer’s work, Prefaces, takes a look at the design-features of a heavenly reward-system. Monica Lewis reports on the design of a garden where people can meet pollinators. https://tinyurl.com/yd8h3hk2 11/16/2025

8. LATECOMERS. The quietly subversive world of teaching and learning is a place for treating the wounds of caste-divisions and injustices. https://tinyurl.com/2cmkdz4k  11/16/2025

9. GETTING PUBLISHED: Thoughts about selling vs. giving away your work. https://unsettling-things.com/f/9-getting-published  11/22/2025

10. THE DIVINE WALK, part 1: Does art do any good? Mashkinonge and Rose argue about literary art and Monica Lewis, a visual artist and teacher, has the last word https://tinyurl.com/bdcw3w5p 11/10/2025

Also, Rose's new site is introduced. It is a free library of all his books and musical compositions at https://richardlrose.com/. 

CONVERSATIONS IN 2026

11. THE DIVINE WALK, Part 2, From fatalism to willful action—another interrupted conversation. (See https://tinyurl.com/42dzp6xp ). Tom Brown responds to previous conversations, read s Caravaggio Relief from https://jthomasbrown.com/a-seed-too-deep/ , and talk about his new book, The Rose of Heaven, and the novel, Land Beneath the Lake, a free read from the Richmond Public Library at https://jthomasbrown.com/land-beneath-the-lake-love-and-redemption/ and his site is www.jthomasbrown.com. And poet and Frederick Douglass role-player Nathan Richardson shows up to read To My Body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDeKHSrPVc . 1/18/2026

12. THE DIVINE WALK: Uninterrupted version, in which Mashkinonge takes over the platform to explain the Divine Walk and what he calls the peripatetic balance-system of human beings, with its eight scales and sliders.  Also discussed: Hymnody for the divine walk, Other writings about divining walks, Eyeglasses for finding your way, a poem about Praise Songs, recorded by Rose.  Then Mashkinonge passes back into the dream time, leaving the website to Rose.  Link: https://unsettling-things.com/f/12-the-divine-walk-uninterrupted-version 2/22/2026