Tag: Nature

• November 27, 2013

  ‘First words of the morning…’

  Words that came to me during morning meditation moments before a philosophical conversation recently: * First words of the morning Second sounds after roosters’ calls Third in line from the wind.
• March 6, 2013

  Moon is sun: Storm meditation

  An opening revealing moon in morning. Sun is moon and fog is distance. Wind churning, churning world, sun returning as moon. Moonwinds churn, turning earth, returning in thickness, white luminescence. Sitting, breathing, enveloped, revealed. Revealed? Revealing moon; revealing light, lavender, lavendered light: lightening lavender, paling hill.
• February 1, 2013

  A nature walk (An excerpt from Radiance)

  A short excerpt from Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time. The book is in progress. * A nature walk is no easy thing. The mind wishes to attach itself to fond or tortured memories, the mouth to rupture solitude or its communion with coursing things. Or thoughts stretch in the direction of a goal for walking…
• December 19, 2012

  On 3 moments of freedom

  Let’s examine a few different conceptions of freedom in hopes of arriving, in the end, at where we began. In his famous essay, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” the contemporary philosopher Harry Frankfurt states, “According to one familiar philosophical tradition, being free is fundamentally a matter of doing what one wants…
• November 1, 2012

  How many ways have we learned not to awaken? Reflections on the use of metaphors for Superstorm Sandy

  A storm is no neutral thing. Can we count the metaphors? Before the later-named Superstorm Sandy struck the eastern seaboard, journalists reported of citizens bracing. As it churned and grinded, cities like New York were summarily bashed, battered, pummeled, punched (as in packing a…), pounded (e.g., into submission). In the aftermath, the city, though burdened, is recovering, with businesses back and running and commuters returning…