rivercrow

‘No lover spoke a harsh word to the beloved.’ - Hafiz
‘We must be the change we wish to see in the world.’ - Gandhiji
‘Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it!’ Santayana

I don’t exist when you don’t see me
I don’t exist when you’re not here
What the eye don’t see won’t break the heart
You can make believe when we’re apart
But when you leave I disappear…

Shareen is a beautiful, wise woman. She talked extensively about focus and philosophy of the dance, and what she learned while performing in Egypt alongside “The Greats”. Reminded me of my original instruction, and I wonder how much of the dance is being lost by the introduction of Western-trained dancers who do not seem generally […]

Imperfect, and happily flawed.
“Know thyself.” Know your hinge propositions, the cracks in the lens, the attractions, the magnetic forces to which you are susceptible.
“But for the grace of God….” Yes, humility above all things. Very hard for those of us whose root is competency.
I talk to strangers on the street, in the elevators, […]

My protagonists are finally revealed to each other. The antagonist is in all her glory. Subplot is rolling along. Need to plug the laptop in. No more writing till Sunday, either afternoon or evening. Then write like a fool for the rest of the week.

[…] the questions that we raise and our doubts depend upon the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, are as it were like hinges on which those turn.
That is to say, it belongs to the logic of our scientific investigations that certain things are in deed not doubted.
But it […]

Wittgenstein, Derrida, Kafka, Schiller, Goethe, Heidegger, Cage, Rothko, Nietzsche, Dada, Duchamps, Futurist Manifesto, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Levinas …

Post-modernism literary theory raged in 1990, when I was in school. To me, it seemed closer to the way I read anyway. Now I had names, and references. My fascination grew from an early high school interest in existentialism–not of Sartre, but of Kafka.

For some reason, Goethe’s quote “Nothing is outside, nothing is inside, for […]