Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory”
‘”You remember that time,” I said, a smile creasing my face, “we got lost in Denver looking for that show. We were in your minivan and we spent hours just cruising back and forth, not really worrying about it since we hadn’t bought tickets anyway.” She smiled and laughed a little [...] Read more »
Keeping a Positive Outlook with Tragic Expectations
It seems as if the divide between pessimists and optimists is becoming more stark and defined by the minute. Either the glass is half empty or half full. There is no other acceptable answer.
I often refer to myself as a pessimist. I don’t expect much from other people. I [...] Read more »
A few weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly had a feature on seminal punk band Bad Religion’s new album. Though it was hardly the point of the article, a small sidebar featured information about a small textbook entitled Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant: A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & [...] Read more »
“Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”
-Michel de Montaigne
One of the reasons I try to be honest is because of how well I feel I hide myself. Not necessarily with friends I know, but there has yet to be [...] Read more »
I don’t know.
I don’t know why two plus two equals four, but I can prove it. I don’t know why math, a system based on axioms, still stands. I don’t know why we can prove something false, but we can’t prove something true.
I don’t know if the facts I know are actually fiction or if [...] Read more »
People just don’t seem to appreciate true beauty anymore. Perhaps, at 22, I shouldn’t be waxing nostalgic yet, but I know I don’t appreciate beauty nearly enough. I have an affinity for ballet and art museums not for their cultural value — I really could care less about what these things say about the author’s [...] Read more »
Today, I walked. The sun shone and heat scalded as I walked; from here to halfway there; from halfway there back to here; from here to there at which I stayed till time had passed. Along the way, I saw a pair of squirrels. They weren’t fighting or fleeing as I walked past. The merely [...] Read more »