Fish In the Afternoon

The world is everything that is the case. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, prop. 1 §1 There is. §2 Again. There is. Again. Speak, heartbeat. (The difficulty of languaging non-language.) God is us, there is no God. There is only us, God is there. Divine-breath, animal-pneuma. The is is not, the is not is. Again. Is… Continue reading

“My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.” Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers How do you attend to your body? Do you? Do you attend-to-you or attend-to-others? Neither? Both? Attention is orientation, directedness. Attention and intention are paired, one… Continue reading

“Summarum summa est æternum.” Lucretius, On the Nature of Things The self is a gift. We are mirrors that glance-back, a sound that becomes a song once it is sung by two. There is nothing and everything within, both absence and presence. Philosophers are Demiurges. We project our images, our ideas, onto a world that… Continue reading

“Si vis amari, ama.“ Seneca the Younger, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium Love is attending to the unfolding of another. Love is always love-for something, an attending-to. The nature of love reflects the unfolding of what it is a love-for. Love-for a friend is distinct from love-for a partner, both are Unique, even as they intertwine (both… Continue reading

“For demons are the magistrates of this world: they bear the fasces and the purples, the ensigns of one college.” Tertullian, On Idolatry Liberalism, n. of-the-free, befitting-the-free, of-noble-birth, of-the-rulers. The corruption of quality into quantity breeds the absurd – a genocidal warlord proclaiming himself victim, the “leader of the free world” conspiring in racist bloodshed,… Continue reading