The Examined Life

June 14, 2014

A Note From Estonia.

I wonder, if at night, deep in their lair, theives feel misgivings at having troubled their victim? Continue reading

May 11, 2014

There was a birder at the park this morning. I spotted him as Lucy and I rounded the path. He was walking a bike. He occasionally stopped and lifted his binoculars and peered into a tree. He was wearing bike shorts and a helmet and was sporting large rubber band-like straps below his kneecaps. “Red tail?”… Continue reading

Books, Death, Life, Literature, The Examined Life

Dad, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Montaigne, Spirituality, Thoreau

February 1, 2014

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros*

It is late in the evening and I am especially missing my youth. This is probably why I don’t stay up late. Why subject yourself to such a thing? It isn’t so much missing the days of youth as it is creeping closer to the remove of those day altogether, the permanent remove of everything,… Continue reading

Creativity, Death, Happiness, Life, The Examined Life

Edward Share and the Magnetic Zeros, Lewis Thomas, Michael Dingle, music

September 4, 2013

Knowledge Gained

I was raised better than to simply walk away from such a friend as you. Yet, I did, I have. My apologies. Sincerely. My absence does not mean I’ve not been thinking of you. To the contrary, I have been plagued with guilt, that most burdensome of the self-induced emotions, over my thoughtless (non-)actions. Over… Continue reading

The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas

Knowledge, Wisdom

June 8, 2013