philosophy
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Transitions #5
While there’s life there’s hope. – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote For Penelope. For hope. How much time do I have to free you, scared little girl? How much time did you sleep in that dark closet, buried under histories barely-whispered, barely-spoken? How much did it hurt to hide from the degradation and the pain?… Continue reading
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The Common-Soul
Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it. – Giordano Bruno, Cause, Principle, & Unity Common. All. Together. Shared. Soul. The fully-unfolded life of the Unique. Common-Soul.… Continue reading
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Transitions #4
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato, Phaedo Apophasis. The cis soul denies, moves-away-from the dawn that beckons in the dark night. The problem they face is an allic problem: because they witness themselves as standard, they can’t recognize themselves as a one-in-many / many-in-one. The cis soul is… Continue reading
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What is a Woman?
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex This is an adaptation of a writing from a Queer Memoir class. Parts of this text have incorporated elsewhere on this site. To Matt Walsh. I: The Bio-Survival Circuit Activates at birth. Either/Or. Nurturing/Noxious. Trust/Suspicion. The body is a woman.… Continue reading
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Transitions #3
“Hope” is the thing with feathers —That perches in the soul —And sings the tune without the words —And never stops — at all —Emily Dickinson, Poem no. 254 We world, us dwellers. Incarnate wisdom, the accumulation of nature buzzing restless in our bones. I en-habit. Think back: the I. The indexical points, it describes… Continue reading
Fish In the Afternoon 