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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for
the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus
If I knew your name and address, I would send you a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils.
- From “You’ve Got Mail”
I wish I had a picture of some freshly sharpened pencils to put in this post, but alas, I probably only have three pencils in my possession at all. That would be […]
Let’s fly North.
Drink something warm.
Watch September betray
[the leaves]
once again.
On Saturday, I finished the final edits of every last article and editorial piece for Documenting the Unseen (our soon-to-be-released print publication). I am absolutely ecstatic! Putting together a print publication is a monster task in comparison to online publishing. I’ve gone close to insane checking over and over and over again every last sentence, […]
Ever since high school, I’ve felt obligated to read what is current, intelligent, popular, or classic. But sometimes, it’s really nice to return to the past, to those old reliables that enthralled me as a child — books that made me think creatively and with which I spent hours and hours of my time.
Not too […]
How can you be full of holes?
Holes are voids,
emptiness,
gaps of space.
(Fill them with something.)
“On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.”
- Newt Gingrich
Kind of an interesting way of thinking of ideas …
I guess everyone wonders about this at some time or another …
Sometimes I wish I had gone to a different college, one in another state, maybe. I would have met different people, enjoyed a different environment than y hometown offered, etc. But I wonder, if I hadn’t gone there, would I even be living where […]
A child yells for her father in the midst of nightmare and terror.
And as an adult, she spends the rest of her life filling the emptiness of her own house
when her father doesn’t come to interrupt betraying sleep.
They sing.
They hurt.
They teach.
They sanctify.They were man’s first immeasurable feat of magic.They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
For without these marvelous scribbles which build letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into systems and sciences and creeds, man would be forever confined to the self-isolated prison of the scuttlefish and chimpanzee.
“One picture is […]
Sometimes the truth is
Not what you want it to be.
Is it ever what you expected?
No, probably not.
Are you okay with that?
Are we meant to create truth or
Are we meant to find it?
