Tag: philosophy

  • Thoughts while buying eggs for the kitchen

    Thoughts while buying eggs for the kitchen

    What is it in those steps I took in the grayish grass of this empty road?

  • Flaws of nature

    Flaws sound like problems, which ought to be solved, but maybe the reason why nothing seems to ever be perfect is because breathing itself can be suffocating enough, what more a precisely measured way of exhaling and inhaling and moving about a boundless world?

  • The game

    Then more things: stillness and how I want to write. How I want to write many, many things. And on that note, this thought: of just being and letting be. So what if you had gone into the ‘blackhole-of-things’? What if that was where you were meant to be at that time. Look where you…

  • Art, in medias res

    Art, whether verbal, visual, or variegated, is the human reminder that life is in medias res. We are thrown into this world: us of naïveté and our surroundings that in times are simply of utter confusion. But the thrown-ness of life is always more than that. It is thrown-ness of possibilities: our world as a place…

  • Being In Place

    I took a nap right before dinner and life had felt strangely… picturesque since. Admittedly, I had only realized the sensation while on my post-dinner walk. It may simply be because of the said walk (a most powerful of all human abilities, to walk) or a combination of that and the simple yet hearty family…

  • Assuming familiarity as knowledge

    Do you really know something? Or are you simply familiar with it? Familiar, as in you’ve encountered it before, perhaps many times prior; it can now trigger a memory or two or more. Maybe you have lived with it, been exposed to it like nitrogen in the air, had it like breakfast for dinner. Spent…

  • More Is Less

    “Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to young.” “Yes! It’s like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won’t ever be back.” Greer, Andrew Sean. Less:…