Reflections on 2020: Year of the Alchemical Orca
To document events of the year and draw the rough outlines of its themes has come to be a powerful force of habit. But as I get older and accumulate […]
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Reflections on 2019: Year of the Pruning Sword
Due to travelling, I have not had the time to make this annual reflection before the close of the year. No matter. It remains fitting to take a few moments […]
Reflections on 2018: Year of the Blue Phoenix
This is the last day of the year 2018, a year of immense activity and numerous advancements in my life. I have chosen to label this as the year of […]
Reflections on 2017: Year of the Eclipsed Decade
It is now the 31st of December in the year 2017 and as tradition would have it, the time for reflection. This particular one bears a special significance as it […]
Journal Entry from July 25 2017
I’m motivated to write again, but I seem to be stuck at the outset. It feels like I have much to express, but I can’t seem to get my thoughts […]
Reflections on 2016: Year of Sisyphean Bloom
The year of two thousand and sixteen will be remembered by many as a regrettable year of many tragedies and one of which they will have been collectively happy to […]
Journal Entry from October 5 2016
My mind can’t help but crane as it gazes too broadly at the vastness of existence. It lets out a solemn sigh and recites the old adage that we live […]
Musings on the Misuse of the Scientific Method
What follows is a slight reworking of a letter (or the modern electronic version of such) that I wrote to a friend who sought my advice on the standards by […]
Reflections on 2015: Year of Callousing Skin
I’m going to try and keep this short this year. I have always found great benefit in this habit of eight years now, and looking back on all the previous […]
The Social Fabric
With Bernie Sanders’ recent insurgent success on the presidential nomination campaign trail, preaching the Gospel of Bernie as TIME magazine’s Sam Frizell calls it, positioned as he is upon […]
Contemplate Well Thy Choice
I am heavily weighed upon by the pending ending of my time as a graduate student and the consequent need to formulate a long-term strategy for myself in the professional […]
The C Word
In academic circles, the word ‘consciousness’ used to be so frowned upon that professional researchers often didn’t even dare utter it, and would euphemise it instead calling it the ‘C-word’. […]
On the perils of communication
We are each an island unto ourselves. From across the farthest reaches of interpersonal space, we receive cryptic symbols inscribed upon a paper kept dry in a dirty bottle. Washing up […]
Reflections on 2014: Year of Verdant Upshoots
As I look back upon the years that fashioned me, I find a few consistent strands ever present and ever thickening. Today marks the one out of 365 days during […]
For Future Reference
engorge yourself upon the gorgeous hordes from wards’ rewards. flannel basking too succinctly upon this narrow bludgeon of cascadia. who dreamt that vicious tents can overwhelm and dent the least […]
Wounded Wildebeest Weeps
My mind races. Vulgar thoughts and jagged emotions flood through me. Swaying wildly and throbbing is this head bubbling and red. A sinister feeling of gloom forebodes within. Voices taunting from […]
Being Among Beings
I used to be so inspired, before the lens of the reflected world peered at me mercilessly and without end. The well I walked to daily for its morsels of […]
Cosmic Pulse
To be a true stream of souljuice, it must be made plainly. that is to say, a stain must drop without disdain for paper-tainting otherwise unpained. these chains I must sever, and send you […]
Reflections on 2013: Year of Burning Embers
Burning Embers: This year was a bed of burning coals we witnessed the visions of which induced by traversing trials and challenging moments and enduring much in the way of […]
Erase Me Please, Poseidon
Twin salty rivulets coursing down a treacherous path seek their freedom from this bag of estranged chemicals that cling to one another in vain and promptly get pulled away into […]