What is the meaning of putting these words down? Is it an attempt to find some internal core, a feeling that must be rendered into language to be understood? Why can’t moods clarify themselves and reveal their deeper meaning without this intermediary? Language comes up short so many times. I suspect that with large language … Read more
Today marks the resumption of my daily meditation practice. It is important for a simple reason: to re-engage with, to remember, the conceptual, symbolic web of interconnections we are all caught within—indeed, what we largely are at that fundamental level. Our very being seems woven from language. ‘Me’ is defined by language and symbol. There … Read more
“Time’s a circumference Whereof the segment of our station seems A long straight line from nothing into naught. Therefore we say “progress,” “infinity” Dull words whose object Hangs in the air of error and delights Our boyish minds ahunt for butterflies. For aspiration studies not the sky But looks for stars; the victories of faith … Read more