Our Only Everything
It’s a new year, and I feel very odd. Estranged from myself – not by some sort of sudden disconnect, but as though I’ve grown so far from the architecture that defines me that I no longer feel like I…
Tag Existentialism
Matryoshka
I watched the movie Synecdoche, New York last night. I say this, not to position what follows as a review, but to give context. I often worry that the connections my brain makes might come off as garbled nonsense to…
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…
Individual
Is there a name for the deep hunger for evidence that we actually exist? “I think, therefore I am” is a pretty flimsy reassurance. Every character we write believes that they think; every character we write believes that they are.…