Letter 1 – On Saving Time Recently we were in a bar, and he was telling me about this girl who seemed like she liked him, but wouldn’t let him ask her out, and puts him through all sorts of confusing games—they’re both PhDs working for maybe the best known company in the world andContinue reading “Seneca – Letters from a Stoic (1-10)”
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And Love? Yom Kippur, 2012.
I fasted for over 25 hours. That means I didn’t eat anything during that time. As for drinking, including water, it was more like 30 hours, because I forgot to drink anything with my last meal. It was easy…I didn’t get a headache, and except for about ten minutes mid-evening, I didn’t even feel theContinue reading “And Love? Yom Kippur, 2012.”
love and silence, my first reaction to Lady Chatterley.
Perhaps it’s no secret that I think very, very slowly, and have immense trouble understanding when other people speak. Not always–not when I am on autopilot, when I have another mission, when that mission is to tear somebody apart, or to be the life of the party, it’s at those times when it’s far moreContinue reading “love and silence, my first reaction to Lady Chatterley.”
Whatever you focus on will grow; or, whatever you fight with, you keep.
Whatever you focus on will grow; or, whatever you fight with, you keep. My day could easily be ruined, but with this laughter, just a few seconds of distraction and separation from the event, I lose anything resembling anger. Should it be that the only time I’m focused and centered with all my being isContinue reading “Whatever you focus on will grow; or, whatever you fight with, you keep.”
arts & fetters 