i lay awake counting my years i have become an accountant of life segments when i walk in the forest around here i can leave the path and navigate by the sun walk on a plain in all directions this winter shall pass, and thinking of spring, i imagine being something wild, like a mother ...
All about: time
How I Learned To Spend Money
What is left is always writing: the force of words works even for those who feel absolutely powerless. When reality is overwhelming, you don't trust your ability to write one proper sentence. And yet you see the words combine themselves on the screen in front of you, as if they are living their own lives. ...
Don’t think and work
The idea that you get paid for doing your own thinking (which I once regarded naively to be the job description of an academic philosopher). You can think anything, as long as... Your critical thinking is appreciated, provided that... There always has to be a forbidden door. And I am the kind of thinker that ...
The best of lies make up the unstable truth for our unstable times
Meditation on Time
Let's take some five second breaths to begin. Maybe even a ten second breath. We will breathe a finite number of breaths in our lifetime and it is less than one billion. Being aware of this fact is supposed to make us value every single one. We understand the present moment as the nexus of ...
Madness is tragedy deprived of time
A street
yesterday the street I live in became new to me I saw blushing windows in its bend and wound-up cars following the curvature the signs on the rooftops read names I had not noticed before behind a rusty gate the glimpse of an overgrown trellis the scent of blossom rushing in from another season in ...
The Playground
The chubby boy points his toy gun at another boy His great grandfather fought in the war. This is not a guess. I am sure. His great grandmother was maybe a comfort lady to the invaders. But his gun is only made of plastic. He will be forgotten. I look at the boys. I see ...
Time with my daughter
I pressed her baby toes against my lips it was the same time as the ultrasound now, is the time that I can't tie her hair before she goes to kindergarten now, is the time I climb a mountain with her and teach her how to swim now, is the time a woman will smile ...