Tag: thoughts
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Justice.
Baths are great. I mean, honestly. You can think of some amazing comebacks in the bath. Relitigating old arguments spanning from fist-fights to absurd disagreements, and from the freshness of yesterday to the dull ache of decades. “Next time”, I murmur murderously under my breath as I scrabble about for the bar of soap that…
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Poem #1 – The Vulture.
Quiet rules the unkempt woods and fertile meadows, Sighs escape as blood of virgin river fills the ox-bows. Lazy swarms of Apollo’s bovine bask under Helios; Slaking naive needs from the mother eternal, they take And are taken in turn, a mere blink of the undivineable; Claws of predator or horn of rival, their end…
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Science Fiction.
A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a podcast on the train to work. While my attention was on the conversation going on between the podcast host and his guest, I was slightly on edge because I didn’t want to miss my stop. As I peered between the safety grill of the train…
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Death.
I wish I was dead. Funny how we say that sometimes, eh? The human experience is certainly very elastic and capable of surviving extremes. With our technological slaves, we have modified this experience to something that can take more of a beating. Too hot? Fire up the AC and ice-maker. Too cold? Get that fight…
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Looking Ahead to 2017, now.
The so-called “Worst Year Ever” will come to a close in a few short hours with one final victim: itself. Time, in the end, outlasts everyone – even the clock. It’s strange, but the people who are bemoaning the biggest wave of celebrity deaths so far are those with a healthy presence on the internet.…
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The Greater Good is Worth it.
I’ve only read one of Ayn Rand’s books. The Fountainhead. Perhaps not as impressive a feat when compared to the difficulty of reading ‘Atlas Shrugged’, it was still not the kind of book to attempt reading during a period of personal turbulence. Nevertheless, that was exactly what I set upon to do, in the…
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Positive Memory.
We carry our pasts with us. Probably it was the cost that we paid to become human. Our ability to act, and react to a given situation evolves within each of us, over a lifetime of experience. As our pasts grow longer and more extensive, richer becomes our well of experience from us to…
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The Canyon at the Edge of a City
Several family roots, including that of mine can be traced back to the rural countryside of India. Most of my generation are now thoroughbred city-dwellers, our lives revolving around the traffic, the noise, the buildings and malls that adorn the urban-scape. My grandfather was the last of us who could truly claim to have…