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Ecclesiastes 11:7-10
Remember Your Creator While Young 7 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. 8 However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless. 9 You who are young, be happy […]
Rioting as a Luxury
There are two things happening right now in the world: this & this. In both images, people are wearing the colors of the side they support. In both images, emotions are running high. However, these are two very different images. The events they depict could not be more polarized. It is hard to imagine that on a […]
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy […]
On Community
I need community. I need to be in community. Without community, I am left to listen to my own heart and mind. Although I do love my heart and mind, they often have a very singular perspective on what is reality, or actuality. Among other things, community allows my heart and mind to hear and […]
On Humans
An excerpt from “An Outpost of Progress” by Joseph Conrad: The two men watched the steamer round the bend, then, ascending arm in arm the slope of the bank, returned to the station. They had been in this vast and dark country only a very short time, and as yet always in the midst of […]
On Truth
In this month’s Harpers, there is an excerpt from a deposition of appropriation artist, Richard Prince, in a copyright suit against him. Towards the end of the excerpt, the exchange goes like this: Q: So when you said you were taking flying lessons in your own airplane, that wasn’t true? A: I was being creative. […]
On Friends
It is true that friends make great moments greater. Let me just also say that, I am in no way opposed to foggy days; or warm, rainy days.
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
A fun, HTML-style interactive version: please explore. “7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
An Important FYIzzle
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