The insistent assertions of the assassin

They sell us

They sell us the plausible to keep us from acquiring the truth.

Blue woman

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Birthday cake

I made Mom's birthday cake from this recipe this year. It's delicious!

Reduced

How terrible to be reduced to one thing, even the best thing.

The songs of the tardigrade

Intolerable

The thing most intolerable:
death isn't even beautiful.

What lies ahead

Art appreciation

The appreciation of art is humans recognizing themselves in nature.

Cosmic witch

Blame

Blame for fault, not for circumstance.

Party

Uncertainty

Be unfriendly to anything that doesn't permit uncertainty.

Roses

Matters

Most of what people think matters doesn't matter, but it matters that it matters to them.

Late evening

To see meaning

To see meaning, you have to stop time.

Virtual reality

Narrative

It's not that you don't know things without a narrative, it's that you only remember things via a narrative.

Men in canoes

It's not hell

It's not hell unless joy is everywhere,
just out of reach.

Yellow tree hill

So much easier

Why is it so much easier to make things worse than to make things better?

Old man

Paradox

Paradox is possible because paradox is paradox.

In love & war

The unexaminable life

But is the unexaminable life worth living?

Art Nouveau woman

Do we?

Do we express experience or experience expression?

Black cat in an alley

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Memory

The goal

The goal is to be large enough to contain enough and small enough to access it all.

Lost in the cosmos

The problem with guidance

The problem with guidance is that it can only lead you in known directions.

Insomnia

Bad art

Is bad art that makes us question whether it is art at all therefore good art?

Stained glass crow

The problem with heaven

The problem with heaven is that it has no defenses against hell.

Up against the wall

What you find

What you find when you think you find yourself is not yourself.

What you find when you think you find God is not God.

Flooded French Quarter

Metaphors

Metaphors are constrained by the limits of our knowledge.

Mountain ice

A ghost

A ghost is an idea insufficiently grounded.

Desert night

No "enough"

There is no "enough."
There is only "not enough"
and "too much."

Netflix

So I finally cancelled my Netflix disc account (yes, they still send out discs!). I'm keeping streaming for now, but it still feels like the end of an era.

Joined in 2004.
Rented & watched 2610 discs.

Under the apple tree

The inevitabilities

None of the inevitabilities bode well for humanity.

Crying girl

The only ghost

The only ghost I believe in
is mine.

Ancient magi

Beyond thought

There is something beyond thought out there.
But you'll never reach it with thought.

Fishy bubbles

In a second

I would drop the world, and every thing and experience in it, in a second, for a satisfactory simulacrum.

Dawn landscape

Society

Society is a strategy of forced intimacy.

A couple that has seen hard times

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