Life
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Thinking of William Faulkner on the eve of his birthday
Soldiers’ Pay – 1926Mosquitoes – 1927Sartoris – 1929The Sound and the Fury – 1929As I Lay Dying – 1930Sanctuary – 1931Light in August – 1932Pylon – 1935Absalom, Absalom! – 1936The Unvanquished – 1938The Wild Palms – 1939The Hamlet – 1940Go Down, Moses – 1942Intruder in the Dust – 1948Requiem for a Nun – 1951A Fable…
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An evolutionary observation (with a twist)
Over centuries, plants developed the ability to build defenses that would make it unpleasant for the surrounding living creatures to eat them. Those are the herbs and spices in which we find great pleasure today. Those are the same repellents that help us as preventive medicine and cure today. Did we learn to master fire…
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What happens after death?
Another question I find much more crucial, much more relevant, much more exciting, much more profound, much more spiritual and intellectual: what happens before death?
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Please!
Learn to find joy, wherever possible.
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Sweetbread and Coffee
Breakfast seems to be intrinsic animal behavior but colored by culture and class. Some are light, some hearty, some cold, some hot, some simple, others require labor. Today I treated myself to the joy of working for mine.
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Creativity amidst destruction
To employ a spice is to ignore nature’s admonishments. We humans intentionally gather plants with high concentrations of defensive chemicals or warning aromas and add them to our food, typically in small doses. The Chemicals associated with the bitter tastes of dandelions and dill, for example, are poisons. The fragrant aromas of garlic, mint, thyme,…
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From Head to Tears
Physically and metaphysically, there is a state under which three things are orchestrated: a thought, impression, memory — something triggers a deep sense of being which triggers a need to inhale deeply, and exhale loudly with which tears are alerted, or flow freely
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Love is merely an intangible magnet, drawing individually and collectively all that breathes towards the whole, towards everything that is, towards the universe as sole identity.
If love in life, and life in love one day finds us face to face, all of me is already smiling.
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Wordy Men
Happy Birthday to these men of words, born on a 24th of August Join us at the Birthday & Celebration Club, on Clubhouse — August 24, at 1pm EST.
