Fish In the Afternoon

To do one thing today and another tomorrow


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  • What is Philosophy?

    What is Philosophy?

    “All rules for study are summed up only in this one: learn in order to create.” Friedrich Schelling, On University Studies Philosophy is a conceptual playground, the choreography of the imagination. We enter philosophy through stepping into our concepts, opening the door of appearance to enter the abode of mystery. Concepts are labyrinths – twisting,… Continue reading

  • Ten Maxims on Love

    Ten Maxims on Love

    1. Love Intentionally – Seek to love yourself, others, and the world each day, allowing yourself to fail while also returning to that intention again and again. 2. Love Habitually – Through loving intentionally, seek to practice love so that it becomes a second nature, becoming a part of your everyday life. 3. Love Abdundantly… Continue reading

  • Inhabit

    Inhabit

    In the abyss, God desires. Whole fragment of spiritual flesh, Sophia haloing ecstatic into embodied creation. Matter becomes through yearning. Why is there anything rather than nothing? Why is there many rather than none? Because of love, ache. Because of first desire, the inhabiting of the nothing that calls out to everything and in so… Continue reading

  • Birdsong

    Birdsong

    hoo- hoo- hoo- ta-weet ta-weet ta-weet tk tk tk Meadowlark. Old willow draped in a green dress. The spirits never left us; the ghosts remain. Through machinery, capital de-sacralizes the land. Devouring rationality, the monstrosity at the heart of exchange, the demon of accumulation specters in from the shallow, the abstraction of the deep. Animal… Continue reading

  • I Believe in Us

    I Believe in Us

    I believe in you. I believe in me. There is nothing else but us. Touch grass, if you can find it. Grasping apes, upright-walkers hunting through the ice, bacterium bursting into self-consciousness. The split between the before, the now, and the after is the invention of the Human. There is no Human in nature. The… Continue reading