I asked myself “What is a friend?” and was startled by the implications of the answer I gave. A friend is someone who shows that (s)he loves you (trusts you, respects you, whatever your personal criteria is). Saying “I love you” or “you’re my friend” is easy and thus mostly unimportant. Those words are symbols [...]
“Who can be a failure in so many ways, instead of getting fired we’ll give ourselves a raise… the government can!” Causality is a tricky thing. Understanding why an event happens after the fact can be difficult and even impossible, given the complexity of reality, and given that any small contingency can have a massive [...]
Unstable? Or perhaps with a deeper stability born of comfort with chaos, spells of depression and withdrawal punctuating periods of fullness and life in a way which is purifying and ultimately constructive. Just as the cold uncomfortable winter–bringing in its wake desolate winds and dead landscapes–creates the possibility of new life the next spring, so [...]
The world remains as it always was, cancerous growths notwithstanding. And the Earth will shake off its human tumor just as it’s shaken off every other problem it has encountered. The human species was the first to fill a wide niche, like the first amphibious reptiles that were able to crawl up on land. If [...]
I’ve been reading this. So out of all the sensations thoughts feelings intuitions and imaginations you experience you choose a few and call it “I”. This is the ego, the brain function you identify with. It is the medium of your experience, but it is not “You.” Your Self consists not only of your conscious [...]
Fire 1. Not So Far 2. The Holocaust 3. Keeper of the Flame Water 4. James Macbeth 5. The Black Freighter 6. Bleached and Boring Air 7. Holy Spirits 8. The Son 9. The Father Earth 10. Infected 11. 2012 – The Black Whole Memory – Human Mask 12. Among the Dead Death visited me [...]
No longer an end in itself: a proving ground, a garden in which ideas take root and sprout leaves, a nest to raise thoughts until they’re ready to fly. A springboard from which more significant projects may be launched. A means of expression for my wandering mind. Random growth which inspires and contributes to the [...]