Category Archives: philosophy

Attitude Adjustment

Posted on February 3, 2022 by randomyriad

Isn’t all this miraculous? Why not wonder at the multitudes we contain and intertwining of living and inanimate matter? How glorious to be alive and willing to ponder it all and not shrink from any of it. We are the … Continue reading →

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the Edge of Now

Posted on January 10, 2022 by randomyriad

this is A Reason for Creating and Paying Attention: It is hard to stay being born into this world without the passionate exchange of inspiration. Vision of the Present Slow spread on the cushion of night steel light beyond waiting, … Continue reading →

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Or Shall We Die?

Posted on December 19, 2021 by randomyriad

From the Writing of “or shall we die?” by Ian McEwan from Granta 7, originally published 1983. For all the complex discussion of nuclear strategy with unique blend of logic and paranoia, at heart, the situation had about it the … Continue reading →

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Perspective Matters

Posted on September 18, 2021 by randomyriad

“We,” human beings, are first and foremost the subjects who do the observing of this world, the collective makers of the photograph of reality that I have tried to compose. We are the nodes in a network of exchanges (of … Continue reading →

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Non-sequential Autobiography of an Inchoate Semipermeable Interactive Conglomerate Collective Entity #1

Posted on September 14, 2021 by randomyriad

(All My Life) Trying to Fill A Person Shaped Hole in the World One Evening Child My whole being drawn Inward toward A Sheltering Skin Curled inside a pillowcase Naked Under Control Sticks and Twigs Boy with Shock of white … Continue reading →

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