Category Archives: make your own world

Maybe We Should Have Another Focus?

Posted on March 29, 2020 by randomyriad

There were none of those thousand sources of irritation that the ingenuity of civilized man has created to mar his own felicity. There were no foreclosures of mortgages, no protested notes, no bills payable, no debts of honour in Typee; … Continue reading →

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How to Face an Uncertain Future

Posted on March 20, 2020 by randomyriad

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. ― Jane Hirshfield “Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination may come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, … Continue reading →

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No Dress Rehearsal

Posted on December 23, 2019 by randomyriad

    The head of the year The moon is dark tonight, a new moon for a new year. It is hollow and hungers to be full. It is the black zero of beginning. Now you must void yourself of … Continue reading →

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Topology of Hope

Posted on November 25, 2019 by randomyriad

Those consequences in a Mobius strip world where everything folds back into our own lives are not just “out there” but “in here” in our own souls, where the corrosive acid of self-deceit challenges the American belief that we are … Continue reading →

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What We Are Dealing With in this Land of Delusion.

Posted on November 21, 2019 by randomyriad

We are dealing, then, with an absurdity that is not a quirk or an accident, but is fundamental to our character as people. The split between what we think and what we do is profound. — Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: … Continue reading →

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