Philisophical musings, life musings, some fiction, poetry, instruction, interest. All by yours truly.
The other day, an Instagram ad caught my eye. I clicked for “More Information” and was taken to the following testimonial. “My name is Heinrich Faust. I spent fifty years in academia searching for truth only to realize I had wasted my life. I was decidedly single, and for all my work, I could hardly…
Choose a reason, any reason. your childhood sweetheart smiled today when he thought of you, even though it’s been 20 years and he’s married, with kids, down in texas you witnessed snow drift down onto the branches before anyone else woke up–you were the first! you saw the sun open up a day and seal…
12/30/14 “Everywhere” I want to go everywhere. I want to know everything But everyone can wait. There’s a little man standing in the middle of the floor. A spotlight is on him with the harshness of an interrogation. He appreciates it because it hints at law and order. But he knows that it is…
Throwing in something rather academicky here–it is just a little experiment! I liked this paper a lot, mostly because it helped me to unpack something quite profound in Derrida’s thought. I want to share what I have learned. In “On Forgiveness,” Derrida tries to discover the “pure” act, what forgiveness is at its core, uncorrupted…