December 2010
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misery loves company
Misery loves company.
But such company, I respectfully decline to provide.
You see, we inextricably entwine with the company we keep. We keep our company inside us somehow, and our company becomes intrinsic to us. So the old parable goes that the blacksmith’s companion departs with clouds of ash, the perfume-maker’s companion departing with dancing shadows of jasmine and...
timelessness
Immersed, enraptured, with no cognizance of time. Diving fully into pages, colors, questions, and reveries, only emerging from this entire and whole absorption when the world interjects into my line of vision and forces me to come up for air. At such moments, the air is no refuge, but it stifles me. It lays a blanket over my dreams and bids them to rest, forcing me into the severe, acute dimension...
begin what?
“I love all beginnings, despite their anxiousness and their uncertainty, which belongs to every commencement. If I have earned a pleasure or a reward, or if I wish that something had not happened; if I doubt the worth of an experience and remain in my past—then I choose to begin at this very second.
Begin what? I begin. I have already thus begun a thousand lives.”
—RAINER MARIA RILKE
And...