The only thing worse than the denial of one's own faults, is the denial of one's own faults because they were your father's faults.

When I die, I'm almost certain to be buried alone. There is no family tomb with my ancestors awaiting my turn, and I have no spouse to fill the grave next to mine. For me, only the company of roaches and worms await, or if I'm lucky, the roots of a tree. Perhaps this is how ghosts are made, and why unmarked graves seem so vacant ( Read more... )

A video is worth a million words, right? Here's my latest, a video collage shot mostly while traveling on Oahu.

A short, fun video depicting our scooter life here in Kona...

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Vroom Vroom!

Particularly over the last couple of years, I don't feel like I'm making any of my own choices. Life just happens; slow while it's happening, but lightening quick in memory ( Read more... )

Over time I've come to believe that love amounts to nothing more than a series of brief, fleeting, astounding shared moments. The notion of love as a committed, continuous and mutually respectful dedication to another person is not itself love to me. It can't be, because love doesn't endure, and it only really exists in the ineffable, transient ( Read more... )

All in all, I thought this year was a good one for film. Although there are only a couple of 'elite' films, the amount of films worthy of mention this year runs relatively deep. For those who are uninitiated, I am a big film buff and do these rankings every year. Here's a quick look at my ratings from the last couple of years-- you can find my 2009 ( Read more... )

It's now been nearly six years since I completed my Master's in philosophy, and it's been nearly that long since I've practiced any serious, technical philosophy at all. There have been the occasional conversations that called for me to dig into my grab bag of stored knowledge and expertise, but such conversations have been rare and, frankly, ( Read more... )

I've mentioned in my journal before that New Years is my favorite holiday because of its near-worldwide celebration of nostalgia and hope for the future. I take the holiday seriously, and use it as an opportunity to assess the past year of my life much as I might someday look back on my life from my deathbed. (Luckily my life has been filled with ( Read more... )

I want to be able to express moments of subtle beauty without overstating them.