The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Domestic Life Home is not a place, but an en-habiting.En-habiting: patterns of dwelling-in-the-world that cohere into habit.Habit: playing the melody of being.We are worlds, in worlds, among worlds.We incarnate a world through the interconnection between flesh and other;the internal appears… Continue reading

I was saved by God to Make America Great Again. – Donald Trump, Second Inaugural Address MAGA — Make America Great Again. See also: palingenetic ultranationalism. Capitalism is a ritual. Through quantification, comparison, and exchange, we reproduce patterns of en-habiting that re-shape the world in the image of capital. This is reification and fetishization —… Continue reading

How strange it is to be anything at all. — Jeff Mangum, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Content note: these writings include discussion of mental health, suicide, self-harm, drugs, gender, and sexuality. Most of these are tackled in symbolic ways, but they pop up regularly and many of these were written earnestly by me… Continue reading

Magic is the knowledge of true names. – Folk saying A sign is an echogia. Echo (ἠχώ): repetition and transformation. -gia (-διά): that which carries meaning. Echogia (ἠχώδιά): that which carries the history of meaning. Melody memories magic, mountain where maple meaning makes. Holy ghost, dove sitting hic et nunc feathered crux est mea lux.… Continue reading

Gǣð ā Wyrd swā hīo scel! — Beowulf A split pear lies dust as ants spider through. At nape’s breath looms the abuser, heavy breast in rot and flesh — a crack in fabled dawn to Leda and the Swan. Collapsed, a sheared corpse whom fascist pregnant bends cries, coughs, and sputters as the Serpent… Continue reading