To wander

Better to wander lost than to choose a false map.

Life

Life is a doomed expedition into terra incognita.

Some want

Some of us want most to ask,
and some most want to be answered.

Endurable (Proust)

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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The lack

The lack defines the limit.

On cognition

Cognition is aggregate.

Nature poet

Of course I am a nature poet.  A human nature poet.

To win

To win, we must be willing to lose.

Soul

A soul equips one for suffering.

A mistake to conflate

It's a mistake to conflate the spontaneous with the ephemeral.

Best parts (Proust)

The great works of art are also less of a disappointment than life, in that their best parts do not come first.

Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

BBQ ribs

Using the Instant Pot and the broiler, a rub, and a sauce.

The wise & the foolish

Wise people create what they need.  They don't try to create for eternity.  Fools take what wise people have created and declare it sacrosanct and threaten anyone with the temerity to try to change it.

No devotion

There is no devotion without deception.

An Afterward

The existence of an Afterward would be worth anything but the believing in a lie of the existence of an Afterward.

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On art

Art is amoral because life is amoral.

Call to action

Let us seek the best within us and deny the worst among us.

The mistakes

The mistakes that shall be held against you most are the ones others pay for.