( Acts 2,3 &4 )

( The Athanor Act 1 )

For a few reasons this journal has forced itself into my thought. Seeing how it ended I thought it deserves at least some sort of culminating gesture at the end other than that statement for Northwestern, and, having written a play this summer, thought that would be a fitting end to this. I don't know why I try to kill this so often. There's plenty ( Read more... )

So the game is as follows. In filling out the application for Northwestern, I come across the 'diversity statement' section of the application which reads as follows ( Read more... )

itation

Something strangely comforting in thinking that everything hangs on an immense list of contingencies, power fluctuations, the weight of our proceedings, tradition, all coming and going, turned on, turned off.

I suppose the trick is knowing that everything is both nothing and not nothing all at once and not at all. Then you can do

"a certain blue of the ocean is so blue that only blood would be more red ( Read more... )

This morning my grandfather died. He had been in and out of hospitals for months now, had been unable to identify my mother when she visited, spoke to saints and had repeatedly attempted to remove all of the insturments that the hospital had monitoring him and leave (which required him to be restrained). The last time I saw him was the end of the ( Read more... )

It is an empty idea, meaning without any clear guidlines or obligations for practice. Is it love? Writing? Thinking? Not thinking - too many structural necessities. Nor writing either, too much strain between words and things, like pinpointing and mapping some surface point of a riverrunning. I think somewhere that it must be living, but then ( Read more... )

The dog hates my soul. Even now it squeals to me demanding to be walked, though I have, as always, just settled down ( Read more... )

Living with a mind gone quiet of late. It is as I expect something else to jump-start it. A change of scenery or some latent force within me to blossom ( Read more... )