Koranteng's Toli

Informants were forcibly struck      By inadvertent socio-cognitive barriers Where assumed nuances facilitated sensemaking     Within the same systemic design community The organizers i...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/11/academic-discourse.html

Sometimes technology gets in the way, There are ghosts in the machine, it seems Or perhaps gremlins are the proper genus of the species For when, in your haste to wish your interlocutor Simp...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-occasional-regret.html

Release, when it comes, is best served with a grain of salt For it's been so long brewing that anticipation is pungent Sweeten to taste with local honey, something fit for a prince Or substit...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-ingredients-of-catharsis.html

High tech Luddite, you might well say Finally fed up, it was was my then-fiancée Who got me my first mobile phone that Independence Day Tired as she was, frankly, about my anti-social ways ...

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A carapace of insight Built incrementally and revisited anew An exoskeleton of wordplay Whose affirmation frames our point of view A dense network of thought Fleshing out an informational ...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/10/such-is-our-asylum.html

While some record the imprint of history Gathering impressions in weekly tallies Others move forward without regret The swinging doors closing behind them Waiting chambers of yore become em...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-fleeting-canvas.html

Buyer beware... the conclusion of Buyer's Remorse V. CAVEAT EMPTOR Fifi had managed to procure a side deal    offering personal protective equipment His firm had no experience in manufact...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/09/buyers-remorse-part-5-caveat-emptor.html

Grifters at work... Part 4 of Buyer's Remorse IV. FAIR WARNING Ananse understood it would be a numbers game in the final analysis So he had an actuary at his side who could handle the moral...

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Southern stress tests... Part 3 of Buyer's Remorse III. THE SITUATION THEREOF Suffice to say that the claims adjuster had been rather impressed With the way the tribes of Agona had confronte...

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A surge in the East... Part 2 of Buyer's Remorse II. TEMPTING THE TOWN CRIER This time around, the town crier beat the gong as he prepared to deliver the bad news Quite simply the folks in C...

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> He who tests the depth of a stream with both feet must be prepared > to swim. >  >  — Ewe proverb I. BUYING OPPORTUNITY The Usher tribe were enamored of commerce, it w...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/08/buyers-remorse-part-1-buying-opportunity.html

There's a dictionary of revolutionary justice to be written And the Ghanaian contribution should be self evident Whereas in those heady days, we became familiar with choice terms "Economic sa...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/08/identification-haircut.html

Mobs are unkind, bent as they are on destruction Cruelty dispensed in the rush to street justice Blood in the sinews fully primed for action Apt to casually cut short the lives they surround ...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/08/damage-is-done.html

I give you The New Standards, a playlist . Some music that moves the soul. (spotify> version) Sing a Song of Song by Kenny Garrett Featuring Pat Methany guesting and enjoying Strasbourg St Deni...

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Connective tissue   Group membranes The small things   The ties that bind A touch of whimsy   The adoption of norms Evolving mores   The invention of tradition Signaling membership   R...

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Handle with care, a heart's fragility should not be tested Consider letting hopes dissolve rather than shatter Softly, softly, as you deflect ambitions Gently disappoint as you deny dreams ...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-delicate-matter.html

Between a dream and a nightmare lies a twilight zone of opportunity This is the terrain of the great game, the proving grounds of destiny Where some hope for change, for better days ahead Oth...

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The last holdouts, it's come to this The Walker brothers would be leaving this place Yes, they'd delayed the purchase for months and strung things out But now time was up, they had to move out...

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First on the scene, smell of sulfur Spent cartridges, overturned tables Kicked a hand grenade, it was live Luck. Tonight was not my time Out of the darkness, a mess The bodies, the bodies. L...

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So apparently I've been writing at this joint for 20 years To all who've been reading, a head nod in your direction An interruption perhaps to your regular programming here A head nod, twenty...

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Blinking lights, funeral procession The police escort slowly led the way The motorbike rider up front occasionally blowing the horn The long parade of cars followed from Mission funeral home ...

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They cut deeper, they do  They hurt more than the unvarnished ones Sure, you can make your peace with the white lies,   The garden variety deceptions And deal with the untruths  And the...

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More musings on music have been requested (apparently weekly playlists and poems are not enough) so I'm inaugurating an occasional series I'm calling One Track Mind. I'll pick a song, nothing too...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/06/baby-me-by-chaka-khan-one-track-mind.html

'Twas a pope in the western tradition who raised the difficulty In a homily that sought to explicate the muddled references in the liturgy The Eastern Orthodox tradition would disdain this unho...

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There is an art to being a great leader We rightfully celebrate those few examples that we have Many books and tomes have been written There is also an art to being a bad leader These last ...

https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2024/06/striving-simians.html