Author: Andrew Taggart

• June 1, 2012

  My book on radiance

  I assumed it would take me about a week to complete The Guidebook to Philosophical Life. After all, it was to be a short book addressed “only to those with ears to hear.” And now for the irony: it took over a month to finish. Go on and laugh. I have my reasons. One was that…
• May 31, 2012

  Our graying hair

  I have gray hairs. I have long hair. How long will it be before I have gray hair? I long for a radiant woman whose hairs are also gray. I see her long hair and her dark eyes and I crave for this being. I see her skin and I crave for her. How long…
• May 30, 2012

  On having needs and making requests – Part 2

  II On Saturday night as the moon reflected a C-shape across an invisible Y-axis, I stood up from the rooftop and my arm stopped working. I tried to spread my right thumb and it would not move. I shook the arm and it shook listlessly. I went to brush my hand through my hair and…
• May 29, 2012

  On having needs and making requests – Part 1

  I As social animals, we have needs and desires. Part of growing up involves learning how to fulfill more of our needs and desires without the aid of others. The other part involves learning that some of our needs can only be fulfilled by others. Here is where social life gets interesting and quite often…
• May 28, 2012

  If I could not touch, could I be touched?

  This morning I lay in bed, looking at my hand. I extend the web, I turn it over, I hold it up to the sky. It is tanned and fleshy and the freshly laundered sheets are very white again. I grind coffee beans with my hand mill. I put the spoon into the bowl, then…