rivercrow

Solstice, the longest night of the year. Drinking a bonfire–a glass of Laphroaig 15–that amazing whisky, the sensation of the peat cinders smoldering in the belly.
Happy birthday, new year!

Perspectivism
There is only a perspective seeing, a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to speak about a thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can lend to the thing, the more complete will our “concept” of the thing, our “objectivity” be.
Reality
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in […]

“[I]n my thirty-sixth year of life I arrived at the lowest point of my vitality - I still lived, but without being able to see three paces in front of me. At that time - it was 1879 - I resigned my professorship at Basel, lived through the summer like a shadow in St. Moritz […]

I Was Wrong
You say stay and never leave
You say meant forever
I could believe you, but I don’t

You say we’re almost alone together
All alone
You say
You say you will
I know you won’t
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I’m damned if I’ll love yours
In a bar that’s […]

http://www.healpastlives.com/pastlf/quote/quchange.htm
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
- Albert Einstein

Painful, wrenching. A lot of me in this, especially the end. Satisfying that it is done. Can’t imagine who will want to read it for it’s own worth. Now comes the editing and clean up, but I think that will wait until next week.

Nice feeling…all done. Now, onto the home work!

For the last week I’ve been afflicted with earworms. Not one, or two, but a whole damn rotating selection. Mainly SoM songs: Vision Thing, If You Don’t See Me, Lucretia, Marian…but I also have Garsaiidi tunes in there.