The last time I really “awoke” was just before dawn on Saturday, on the cliffs above a mountain meadow in the Wyoming wilderness, beside the glowing embers of a fire that I’d been tending most of the night and some friends I’d met only a few days before and have little likelihood of seeing again. It [...]
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Clarity
Posted in Personal on 9 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t believe it, I’m actually posting about the footie.
Posted in Personal, tagged football on 28 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since there’s nothing original to say about yesterday’s match, I figured why not just go on the record with someone else’s words and maybe see if a larger point can be made. Heh. So, an article in the Berliner Morgenpost portrays a case of local immigrants having their flag-waving rights challenged by an activist non-immigrant [...]
Der Lebenskunst
Posted in Personal, tagged Camus, literature, Mann, philosophy on 8 December 2009 | 1 Comment »
Or, To the Art of Life. I fear that what follows may reveal a level of seriousness either entirely appropriate or wholly insufficient for the purpose of meaningful living. Of course, I don’t intend to bother with any kind of metaphysical treatments, but rather: Wherein do I find my comforts, my joys and pains, indeed my [...]
Bibliophilia, more or less
Posted in Personal, tagged books, Camus, Conrad, history, literature, Mann, philosophy on 29 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had this post in mind for a while, actually since reading this clever piece on what our bookshelves might say about us. Having procrastinated long enough, and having mentioned to two good friends just yesterday that I was thinking about this, it seems like as good a time as any to take a short [...]
A personal reflection
Posted in Personal on 16 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
Recently, after visiting my elderly grandmother, I stopped somewhere that I had not passed since I was a child. This time, the emotions that had eluded me years ago caught me quite off guard, and have returned often in the intervening days. To say that this has had a sobering effect would be an understatement; [...]
Some very brief thoughts on stuff
Posted in Personal, tagged philosophy on 19 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That’s been one of those creeping thoughts lately, the kind that nags you until you’re forced to find some answer that will sufficiently hush up your Unconscious long enough to let you get on with it. We’re not talking about an existential crisis here, nor some deep soul-searching psychoanalysis, but simply about knowing that “all [...]
And so it begins…
Posted in Personal, tagged otherness, philosophy on 9 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been delaying (procrastinating, perhaps?) the start of my blog for a good while now, but the excuses for not taking a moment to sit down and write have started wearing rather thin. The title I’ve chosen for this journal represents only the ideal that I will offer at least one substantial piece every week, [...]
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