Happens is never once. – William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom! I grieve the daughters of the valley. Stormy skies spell silence overhead. Bodyblood golds while the reaper repents. Memories deepwater the trench of my heart, the bonegallows’ child who tempers thou art. I do not haunt says the moth to the caterpillar. I cry. Starlight signals… Continue reading

“In the beginning was the Wordand the Word was with Godand the Word was God.” – John 1.1 (CEB) God is original recognition.The no-thing becomes by being-with: {0,{2,1}}. Absence was infinitely and never was; a full emptiness. Being begins with time.Time is difference. Difference originates sameness.Dwelling is being-in-time in both sameness and difference,one and many.… Continue reading

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