I’m a Magpie
The starting point for critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as the product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, with out leaving an inventory.
Antonio Gramsci, The Study of Philosophy
It is common, in some Christian traditions, to begin any [...]
I didn’t go to work today, hurrah! Now to bang on the drum all day.
Bluh. I really just want to walk out. I hate this job.
Look I made links.
I can’t sleep.
Today was really pretty. Sun, flowers, green hills, the works. But I just had this, I dunno, shadow all day. Do you ever just have that feeling that the world just barely tolerates you? That everyone you encounter is just smiling woodenly at your no-longer-amusing antics, wondering when you got [...]
Holy manifestation-of-subconscious, Batman. Second post down. Wrote it, saved it in word. Never meant to publish it. Went to blog tonight. There it is.
huh.
It was maybe three months before my grandfather died. He’d been showing signs of Alzheimers since I was a freshman in college, and although we didn’t know it at the time, a brain tumor was wedging itself between him and the world, furthering the distance between his inner life and the one we could see.
I’d [...]
I’ve got a headache. Ow.
I need a way to write on a crowded train, or a longer commute. I keep having these great ideas – or at least they seem great on the N train from Embarcadero to Duboce Park – but by the time I get home, >plub< they're gone.
Working and schooling just don’t [...]
Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeghhp.
Every morning, Brian makes me a latte and sends me off to work. And every other evening, I forget to take my coffee mug home with me. So every other morning, Brian sends me off with a different cup (the mathemeticians among you will have figured out by now that I have two).
Heute morgen, I [...]
I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.