Month: October 2011

• October 12, 2011

  DIY Wednesday: premeditatio malorum

  I was frightened this morning, and as I write the fear is not all gone. This morning my computer would not boot; it would only go round and round in an loop in which the opening screen would flash, pause, grow dark, get light, and flash again. I was frightened, I say. It has returned…
• October 11, 2011

  DIY Tuesday: The serendipitous thank you

  An Inspirational Quote to Whet the Whistle “The basic philosophical problems are presented to us by living, not by books or by the educational system. [Three cheers!–AT] The notion that only those who have studied philosophy at a university can philosophize is on par with the notion that only those who have made an academic…
• October 10, 2011

  DIY Monday: Notes of praise

  DIY Week This week I’ll be writing about a number of DIY exercises. Today my subject is the note of praise. A Brief Caveat In the past, I’ve been skeptical of DIY culture. I still am–not because DIY can’t put you on the path to self-understanding but because it’s insufficient for effecting genuine self-transformation. Understood…
• October 7, 2011

  Friday meditation: Unnaming our nonsense

  Unnaming All of Them After she, formerly Eve, unnames all the wild and domesticated animals and all the pets so that wild and domesticated and petted are all one with each other as well as with her, she relates, “My words must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative as the steps I…
• October 6, 2011

  On the caress

  “A caress has to be accepted,” says Jerome in Eric Rohmer’s 1970 film Claire’s Knee about love, desire, and commitment. Can food also be a caress? —