What did thinking ever do for me?
I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs or burning buildings, it was me, my thinking,...
View ArticleI don’t love you
Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing...
View ArticlePlug the dike
She never said no and never said yes, but pulled, slackened, pulled her strings of control. Pull: ›What would be nicest‹, she would say, ›is if I had a tall glass of iced tea‹. What happened next: the...
View ArticleI love you
I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I...
View ArticleEvery love is carved from loss
Let me tell you a story, the Dial went on. The house that your great-great-great-grandmother and I moved into when we first became married looked out onto the small falls (…). It had wood floors, long...
View ArticleIn heaven we feed each other
Mr. Black said, “I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I’d heard that paintings hung everywhere! I heard you couldn’t see the walls...
View ArticleDie Kunst der Kunst
Art is that thing having to do only with itself – the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no examples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever...
View ArticleConfusion
What if the water that came out of the shower was treated with a chemical that responded to a combination of things, like your heartbeat, and your body temperature, and your brain waves, so that your...
View ArticleSignificance
I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared...
View ArticleI am not sad
He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his...
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