Discernment and Desire
If nothing else, the last year has taught me to be more discerning. I have learned that little is as it seems and nothing that comes out of the mouths of the ruling elite or their propaganda machine is to…
Paint and Pixel Notions
Thoughts about art cavort in my mind with all the other stuff that gets crammed into my cranium each day. Two days ago, those paint-and-pixel notions got more articulated than is often the case, as evidenced in the journal entry…
The Terrifying Power of Words
I sometimes wonder if I fill my world with too many words: the ones on the screen, on the page, on my tongue, in my ear. Banishing some might me do me good, but which ones? It’s not as straightforward…
Forest or Trees?
I have a song stuck in my head: “The Big Picture” by Tori Amos, a release from her very first album, Y Kant Tori Read. Of course, Dennis has this in his collection. His modus operandi concerning music has long…
The Joy of Reading
It is an honest-to-goodness rainy day. I used to write rather often about theory vs. reality, but these days, I feel like I’m just trying to discern what reality actually is. I do know that if I want to feel…
Dubris Light
“It’s all trickery and ambiguity. A single thread is like a spider web, pull and it’s gone, but try to free yourself and you get even more entangled. And the base and weak rule over the strong.” — Boris Pasternak,…
