Power
This is the story of power. In the beginning, there is the community. At first there’s no real differentiation between members, each doing whatever work seems to need to be done as it occurs to them to do it. One…
Tag Anxiety
Post-Partum
As mentioned in the previous post, I spent the last month working on a side project. For most of this time, this project was really the only thing on my plate: Every day, I had one thing to do, and…
Survival
“What does it matter, a dream of love or a dream of lies / we’re all gonna be the same place when we die” -Kathleen Brennan & Tom Waits “Listen: We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let…
Machine Problem
Diagnosing problems with a machine can be difficult when you live inside that machine. Whenever something goes wrong with our bodies, we have to address the issue as best as we can while also contending with its consequences, and all…
Examined Life
One cannot observe without affecting that which is observed – this is true in physics, where even the bouncing of photons necessary for observation affects the outcome, but also more generally true of human beings than we often care to…
Uncharted
I’ve been having a hard time writing recently. Sometimes it feels like I’ve got nothing left to say – not necessarily there aren’t any ideas for topics, but that all of them seem thin or redundant, either something I could…
Wedding
Can’t tell if I’m just dizzy or if the ground is moving We try to stay in just one place Standing on the deck of a ship Sailing perhaps off a waterfall When we wake up we’re not where we…
Incomplete
The monthly project thing didn’t work out. There’s a few reasons for that, but the biggest one is the issue of enthusiasm management, a skill which I’ve had to improve at over the past few years. I guess some people…
Problematic
Everyone who likes art inevitably has the experience of revisiting something that they loved many years ago and, with older and more experienced eyes, finding it deeply Problematic. ‘Problematic’ is a strange word, being essentially a shorthand for “has issues…
One-Track Minds
Everyone feels trapped. Helpless. We have a problem, and it’s a trolley problem. We are on rails, and the scope of our choices sharply constrained. There is no preventing the harm, only, perhaps, reducing it. In the face of impending…