gyrmination

Short Stop Taking the bike out on its maiden voyage this year. The sun creeping behind the mountains, less hastily than usual as we’ve become friends, and it would be impolite to leave without saying goodbye. Just a short little ride, jot of jaunt. Not what course to chart, directions spin through my brain and [...]

I am experiencing a minor renaissance. Life seems to cycle through periods of gradual decay and spurts of rebirth, liberation from not the toil of one day but a sum of chains that signals an early Spring. In some way I think I am looking for a master. It is obvious when a teacher is [...]

Reading about great men leaves me in despair. They despaired over finding people who could understand them; I despair over not being among them. Reading the ideas, my eyes splash along, I don’t understand them, I can’t even come close. The anode-beginning, or force-plus, or masculine element, was always the intention from which meaning derives. [...]

The name “Munich” has little bearing on the story of the movie, which despicts a band of people held captive by the political ideology of others. “Munich” is about bondage – about the constellations of circumstance that cause people who normally would see each other as human, as individuals, to use each other as means [...]

Admiration grows like wind, a competitive jealousy sets in, we are wrapped up in the warped race to outdo those who have outdone. Attention is focused, view is letterboxed into tiny panes stripped of context, senses convinced of some reality that parallels the limited one presented for our eyes to feast upon. To me, ignorance [...]