I reach for my metrocard. You gotta be kiddin’ me. Pat pat, pat pat. Oh shit. It’s gone. My wallet. The Jamaican mama occupying the ticket booth must have cottonballs up her ears, she takes so long to respond to my plea for help. When I tell her my wallet is missing, she barely hides [...]
On my whiteboard: Religious Hatred => How do we determine which thought to respect? Half-erased, it’s been sitting there since I read a Harper’s article on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy more than a year ago. The essence of the question I intended to explore was, what are the criteria for thoughts and beliefs we [...]
Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is not particularly well written. Perhaps its contents are powerful, perhaps it condenses a complete vision of human life within, but unfortunately it often reads more like a tract or advertisement with convincing the reader of the value of TM as its [...]
Clouds of bubbles fitted in among the shards of tea leaves in my tea bag. There must be millions of them squirming around as the bag bobbles, vying to move upward, to surface, to breathe. Who is keeping track of them all? Do they all disappear or at least take a breather when I’m not [...]
As the clump of pages remaining thins, I grow sad and nostalgic. I don’t want to leave this precious world behind. Miss Saeki, Komura Library, the painting of the beach, Oshima, his cabin in the woods, the boy named crow (my shadow), Nakata, Hoshino, Sakura … Murakami has somehow played this world into my life. [...]
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