Tag Archives: life
The truth and dreams, 1: Lost
I dreamt that we were around each other, but not really together. Our recent split was a wound still open, and I was trying to follow you, to get back to you, to make you see me again as yours. … Continue reading
The truth and moonshadows, 2: Of Fathers and Sons
Note: This is the second of three posts in an extended essay exploring my relationship with my father and my son through the songs of Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam. Of Fathers and Sons With the passage of time, everything changed, as … Continue reading
E/F – The glass of life
God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good (Genesis 1:31). Life is full of contradiction, and so are attempts to understand where life came from, why we are here, and what will become of us. … Continue reading
Filed under ageing, body, entropy, existentialism, freedom, life, philosophy, truth
The truth and the still
The still photograph is not so still. The photograph asks questions. It suggests a story. It presents an idea in a language without words. It is even as it signifies. Video killed nothing, and the still photograph survives (even as … Continue reading
Filed under art, beauty, Brazil, freedom, ideas, journalism, life, media, Park Slope, philosophy, politics, truth
The truth and Brasília, 3: Faroeste Caboclo
Brazil is a country of inspired appropriation. Its peoples, cultures, sounds, and visions grind against each other. They rise up and smash together like tectonic plates. In the collision of Brazil and Brasília, the city of candangos gave the country … Continue reading
The truth and unicorns, part 1
Unicorns are mythical creatures, but many people believe in them. They don’t necessarily believe in the immanent possibility of seeing a unicorn on the street or in the woods any time soon. They believe in believing in unicorns. Myth speaks … Continue reading
Filed under Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, ideas, Isaac Newton, Leonard Shelby, myth, philosophy, superposition
The truth and mirrors
The eye of the beholder sees many things, and the beholder alone is the judge of what he or she sees. The beholder sees beauty, or ugliness, or truth, or lies, and the beholder knows something. The thing about eyes, … Continue reading
Filed under existentialism, fiction, life, love
The truth and us
There’s no one else just like you. That’s right – your fingerprints, your DNA, your handwriting, the way you walk, and so on – all this is distinctly original. Our brains are hardwired to discern the smallest features that distinguish … Continue reading
Filed under individuality, life, normal distribution, statistics
Truth and sleeping dogs
Truth is a sleeping dog. Truth is in the details. Truth is a black-light poster in the valley of darkness. Truth is a symptom of consciousness. Truth is fear itself. Truth is the ballad of Echo and Narcissus. Truth is … Continue reading
Filed under Duke, existentialism, superposition
The truth and love
I love you. We fall in love, declare love, make love, and do crazy little things for love. We search for love in all the wrong places and find the most incredible fulfillment in even the slightest glimpse of love … Continue reading
Filed under beauty, Bette Midler, Clarence Frogman Henry, danger, love, superposition
