Phoenix of Love

Pain, like noise, is one of those vague nouns that reduces a vast array of sensations to a single, dull concept.
Today, I’ve been wishing that a particular collection of excruciating jaw pains were more of a concept and less of a sensation. It’s occurred to me, though, that the concept of pain—all our thinking about [...]

Sartre’s famous aphorism that “hell is other people” is backwards.
Hell is disconnected self-consciousness. Hell is the lack of other people.
A characteristically brilliant and frank recent post by Mona brought this to mind:
My biggest test for the last couple of years, though, has been feeling (relatively) alone in my quest for human interdependence. It pulls me [...]

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 [...]

It says “Tis da Season.”
It’s always the season.