“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jan
22
Every time I open my big mouth I put my soul in it. It takes so much to be nothing, to shroud the mind’s eye from the gaudy theater of the head. Fallness noon on the mind cluttered with discarded fantasies nerve paneled corridors of imagination opening on hidden universe glimpsed in the echo of […]
Feb
8
(originally posted 2/4/2024) She used to rub her feet against mine under the covers. Which was fine, great actually, except she had long toenails and more than a few calluses and it was like she was affectionately running a pair of cheese graters up and down my leg. It wouldn’t have surprised me to […]
Feb
7
(originally posted 2/1/2024) When she was a child she was afraid of the dark. So much so that she had to go to a number of therapists, each one extolling the virtues of darkness until as last she got over her nyctophobia. The years between her childhood and her early twenties passed without incident. Until […]
Feb
6
(originally posted 11/17/2024) The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure facility that stores samples from approximately one-third of the world’s most important food crop varieties. At present it holds over 20 million seeds. Which got me to thinking while I was filling my bird feeder the other day. That’s a lot of seeds. […]
Feb
5
(originally posted 10/16/2012) I found myself driving down this country road that had grown up into a big strapping highway but it wasn’t fooling me. I knew a country road when I saw one. Sort of desolate and I got this exposed feeling as I drove down it. Not a lot of other cars. […]
Feb
4
(originally posted 10,1,2023) There are a vast number of things I don’t know about DNA. Oceans of them. Obviously I could Google and find out, but who has that kind of time? Which is a problem when you plan on insinuating something about DNA that might be pivotal in a reader buying into a […]
