An expert in the medium of lack…

Giacomo Leopardi was a poet, philosopher, essayist. A radical, forward thinker whose erudite progressivity blossomed and bloomed despite the conservative constraints of his context, much in the same way a dandelion summons the subtle but relentless strength to breach concrete. But this is not to say that he was not …

A shoulder set to rock…

“it wasn’t just the old worry, the one he’d lived with all his life, as long as he could remember that weighed on him. It was also the dreams.” J.M. Micro, Ordinary Monsters Worry carries a weight. A stress. A strain. But, it’s one I’ve grown accustomed to carrying. There …

The anomaly of us…

“Reality can get dismal”, says Andrew Solomon, and “Human beings are fundamentally absurd”. In both cases, I couldn’t agree more. We are the most arrogant of all species. We are so entranced by our own self-assuredness, so intoxicated with our own self-importance, that we fail to see how the incredible …

what persists…

“Maybe this is what grief is…Maybe this is how loss feels. Like nothing. Like wind in a hollow…Grief and hate are close cousins.” J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters “The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.” Octavia E. Butler, The Parable …

the way the world opens…

“Whenever I am alone, I sit with books. If someone behaves badly with me I go home and sit with books.” – Martha Nussbaum, A Velocity of Being There is nothing quite like the physical presence of books. I enjoy the welcomed ease with which an audiobook can speak to …

The immutability of books…

“Book…are immutable…We like books because they stay the same ” – David Byrne, The Velocity of Being Nothing can be relied upon as concrete. Nothing is immune to that all-pervasive ephemerality inherent to existence itself. Nothing except books that is. Books are the only true unmoved movers I know of. …

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