Socrates
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The Examined Life
“All I mean by truth is the path I have to travel.” Continue reading
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My breakfast with Michael.
I’m away from home, back in Maryland, where I used to live, and have just finished breakfast with one of my oldest and best of friends, Michael. I’ve written before about Michael, specifically our climbing life together, as well as the question he once put to me, “Is that all there is?” He is, to Continue reading
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Existential Origins
“…That wild longing for clarity.” Continue reading
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The Limit of Anything is not a Natural Place
…together, the writing and the life, they make something of which I am unsure–but I am the student of that something, trying to be more sure. Continue reading
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“What I am, I am by myself.”
Do you ever ask yourself what is the best we have to offer? The “we” here is the species, homo sapiens. I will pass completely on the who or what to whom we offer (the verb implying such: O.E., ofrian, from L. offerre “to present, bestow, bring before”). Not bringing this before anybody/-thing but myself, Continue reading
...the house I live in... 