Phoenix of Love

While walking around downtown at lunch time and on the way to the train station, I often notice how the hurried businesspeople barrel down the streets leaning forward as though it will somehow get them to their destination a few seconds quicker. Sometimes I catch myself doing this as well.
When I drove to work, there [...]

For an activity that fills roughly a third of our hours of life, sleep can be frustrating. Immersed in our deeply cerebral culture, we have trouble letting go of deliberative consciousness, and thoughts run over into every corner of wakefulness and knock against the boundaries of sleep. Meanwhile, we readily bring our analyzing, problem-solving brains [...]

So many processes, so many adjustments, boil down to the resolution of dissonances. I remember once reading an article on Bruckner’s symphonies which described their progressions from start to finish, very broadly, as the gradual resolution of musical tensions declared in the introduction, so that each finale concludes in a sort of harmonic nirvana.
Since reading [...]

I just realized what a huge chunk of my speech and thought during the winter is monotonous complaining about the cold weather. This has been the case for a few years now at least. I mention it in practically every conversation, because the cold bothers me so much; because it lowers the quality of my [...]

My overcoat has a small hole in the lining of its right pocket. For the most part I’ve gotten used to not putting small objects in there, ever since I discovered a few pens, my car keys, and assorted receipts burrowed into the bottom of my coat, but occasionally I forget. Yesterday evening, after buying [...]

I want to observe more and analyse less. There is so much thinking, so much intellect and interpretation and categorizing and describing and questioning and solving in my work and in my day-to-day life, it is almost a habit. It is exhausting sometimes to think so much, to be constantly dissecting concepts, extracting meanings, and [...]