Confronted with ultimate death, the resulting dichotomous fate: either nihilism or futility (Buster Friendly or Wilbur Mercer).
How far, how far removed from real life? Dusty apartment, mediated experience of the world. I read articles about things that happen all over the planet, which I can prove no more than I can prove the existence of [...]
No matter how bad you think your situation is, it’s probably not as bad as most Haitians’ situation yesterday. And that’s on top of a mess of other problems; a week ago, before anyone was even thinking of earthquakes, Haiti was the poorest country in the western hemisphere. But even the most miserable person in [...]
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 for [...]
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 in a dream (Jung might say that a mythological image emerged from my inherited unconscious to [...]
My painting of life…
A giant cylindrical pit, reaching upwards eternally, and every soul who has ever existed is thrown into it. At first it was chaotic: everyone clambered for the top, pulling others down in order to push themselves up. People screaming in pain, clawing in desperation, contorted, eternally struggling, and rarely achieving the fresh [...]
Walter raised his head, dropped his pen, stared from his chair into some empty space. Why this note? Why such a long poem of reasons and justifications, if he was to simply throw it away, to tear himself from the world with a spasm of a trigger finger?
He read back to himself what he had [...]
“Must have been strong warrior human man to be able to beat down a Klingon woman!”
Jokes often have an element of tragedy. Life is cruel and brutal more often than it’s sweet and endearing; a hearty soul knows a good laugh.
It’s natural and right for the suffering of others to bring forth our sympathy. However, [...]