I was supposed to look up something I used to remember before I fade it out of my mind and think it just a dream.

And then I remember: miasma. Lodged in my brain like a splinter is a short conversation between a man and a woman (who may or may not have been wearing a sandwich-board sign) centering around the word miasma.The young woman uses the ( Read more... )

Is there suffering upon this new earth? On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other ( Read more... )

But just how much of a problem is it? I don't know if we as humans can understand anything without it. We try out hardest to fight it and minimize it to nothing if we can, but if we succeed, we're bored and life is pointless. It gives our lives meaning. We're here to endure it, I guess, but we need it ( Read more... )

So I might lose my job for basically what amounts to a communications breakdown or paperwork mishap ( Read more... )

The frost on my bedroom window, fresh, sleek, crystalline, brings to mind an untramped-through field of snow. Successive swooping lines across the window mark successive layers of ice, banks drifted over time and temperature across my glass landscape. It shimmers as thousands of points of light refract in a thousand different directions, bounce ( Read more... )

I think I might be the only person who says "fantastic" non-sarcastically ( Read more... )

Books read 2004 ( Read more... )

Jill and I were watching a movie together, sharing a standard Ben & Jerry's unit. She leans over for a kiss, seals her lips over mine, and squirts ice cream into my mouth. Her mouth is warm; her confectionary injection cold and nebulous. She says nothing and appears to be very engaged in the movie.

It's helpful to remember that we all want basically the same thing. It's just that we have different ideas of how.

It is impossible to conceive of yourself as not existing, because you are still conceiving of yourself.

Try it.