Writing Group
Monodimensionalizing or monolith-izing any concept, person, feeling, or group is intrinsically problematic and philosophically lazy. Love, such as we experience it, is complicated and messy, as much as it is fulfilling and magnificent. It isn’t the most admirable circumstance, or the most honorable person; it doesn’t reflect the modern oh-so-sterile and updated, clinically appropriate, informed and trauma conscious relationship. It’s Madness.
Read MoreContemplating enormity is…unnerving. Cynics (pessimist rage-baters, not the Greeks) might say that suicide is the only rational and responsible response to life, but despite what French “philosophers” might have written in the first half of the twentieth century, the universe is not so bleak and boring as all that.
Read MoreWhat can one say when the landscape of a place that never existed is reduced to a kind of uniform, bladed dirt?
Read MoreWhat is loyalty? Should we be as concerned with it as we are? Well, whether that’s a lot or a little, I invite you to think on these things, brethren.
Read MoreIt is not enough for a mode of disseminating information to be free from governmental oversight, or to be nearly completely unfettered by law; it must be inspired, if not wholly instructed by and reliant upon individuals of some intellectual and moral integrity.
Read MoreI'm a fan of precise speech, and I believe that adages, terms, and philosophies which are merely a product of unexamined in-group/out-group biases, are quite, well...boring. William Zinsser is adamant about economizing speech wherever possible and reminds us to trim from our vocabulary words that aren't "doing any work," as he says.
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