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A journal of life pursued

Philosophy

February 29, 2012

The Philosophy of Groundhog Day

Does this action…hold up to the challenge of living it repetitively through all eternity? Continue reading

Life, Philosophy, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers

Groundhog Day, Milan Kundera, Neitzsche, Philosophy, The Stone
February 25, 2012

Leaning in to wisdom.

I must climb down off this box of soap. Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom, Writing

Beethoven, Montaigne, standing on the shoulders of giants, Thatcher Cook, Thoreau
February 22, 2012

Like a language disappearing

I mistakenly sometimes think that my ideas are substantial just by putting them down on such fine paper. Continue reading

Philosophy, The Examined Life, Writing

Descartes, James Miller, journal keeping
October 24, 2011

A peripatetic theory of knowledge.

“…but I cannot tell you anything about a tree at the dog park.” Continue reading

Life, Nature, Philosophy, The Examined Life

Everst, Guy Davenport, Jim Whittaker, Maine, Nature, Nike, The Geography of the Imagination, Wittgenstein
August 26, 2011

“…away from Heald Pond.”

To be present is the great motivation. Continue reading

Life, Nature, Philosophy, The Examined Life, Thinkers

Eric Hoffer, Henry David Thoreau, loniness, Maine, Montaigne, solitude
April 6, 2011

Moleskine notes

There are two types of men… Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Happiness, Literature, Philosophy, Writers

Bach, Camus, David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, Julian Schnabel, Maine, Melville, Moleskine, Portland, Sisyphus, The Pale King, The Wilson Quarterly

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