one time i was working on a saturday. my office was way down south on southwest parkway. I took a break for lunch, and went out to a wendy’s down the road.I took my burger and sat at a bar… Continue Reading →
I pondered something like this this and googling “why does modern classical music suck so bad?” took me to this five year old question posted on reddit about this twelve year old article on the guardian to which there were… Continue Reading →
On the occasion of what would have been his 101st birthday, I took it into my mind to record a few thoughts about the old man. Well, my first memories of the old man are kind of inchoate. Kind of… Continue Reading →
sometimes, someone will say something like “it’s all in the past” what is the past, exactly? where is it? is it out there in some other dimension? is everything that ever happened or ever will happen out there somewhere? what… Continue Reading →
Yesterday, it was a beautiful sunny day, dry, cool early September morning here in Virginia, and I took myself for a walk. I was in the midst of pondering a big question, and as I often do, I prayed, meditating… Continue Reading →
life is like a knife. or maybe a surfboard, splitting the eternal wave of existence, the everpresent now, into pairs of opposites. all we see is the foam, but not the sea.
Big numbers. Big numbers. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy, a typical galaxy contains ten million to one trillion stars. There are probably more than a hundred billion galaxies in our observable universe. According to http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seven.asp, ten million pennies would stack in a… Continue Reading →
thoughts for today: what if josef conrad and louis l’amour met during their mutual youthful sojourns as seamen in the western pacific? I imagine they’d have engaged in fisticuffs on the decks of a sampan. what if jane austen married… Continue Reading →
one of the weirdest moments in my life was after I left my aunt sally’s funeral. she was ok, but kind of full of shit, like my father, they had something in common, and lots of stuff under the bridge,… Continue Reading →
Christmas, 2000 St. John, USVI Last night, up the hill, we heard sweet strains of brazilian combo doing impression of Jobim+Astrud as we danced under the bougainvilla, aromatic and colorful under the night sky, a gentle breeze blew from an… Continue Reading →
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