“I never wanted to be well-rounded, and I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut...
“One of my favorite movies, Groundhog Day, illustrates very well our position as human beings on this planet. The insight we gain from the infinite life perspective is that we have infinite time in which to get things done, just as Bill Murray’s character...
“How would it be to open the picture on a San Francisco street with a series of cuts of upturned faces, some stationary, others moving slowly along, and what they are looking at is an unusual number of sea gulls flying above the buildings of the city. We could...
“Black pony, big moon, and olives in my saddlebag. Although I know the roads I’ll never reach Cordoba.” —from Rider’s Song by Federico Garcia Lorca It’s too bad that my understanding of slavery is so influenced by movies like Django Unchained...
“Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I’d languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.” —Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet...
I am the frivolous coyote— I wander about. I have seen Hasjesh-jin’s fire— I wander about. I stole his fire from him— I wander about. I have it! I have it! —Navajo Creation Chant I decided my to give away my old Blackberry since I don’t use it anymore. First I...
