“…In virtually every human society, ‘he hit me first’ or ‘he started it’ provides an acceptable rationale for what comes next. It’s thought that a punch thrown second is legally and morally …Read more >
Living in the face of a possibility can sometimes be difficult—difficult in the ways poetry, music, or a deep intimacy can be difficult, because it doesn’t explain, it doesn’t …Read more >
Our stories represent the richness of what it means to be human—there is a power, validity and value in them, but not when those stories get confused with the presence of life. …Read more >
“The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Descriptions of the world can be true or false—the world on its own, unaided by [language], cannot. The world does …Read more >
If you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living.* If we can consider that mistakes and breakdowns are a making up, an invention, a declaration of something missing instead of …Read more