Nicolaus
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Why do we pursue Greatness? I need to know.
For the last many months I have been feeling my way around a new screenplay. For the majority of that time, it has remained nebulous in my mind. Only a few scenes of a million imagined have struck me as necessary, and so stuck. And even for those few scenes, I had a difficult time
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Unadulterate me
What is the point of being understood? Is there one? One mode for self-evaluation in my writing is comprehensibility – who’s to say that being understood matters all the time. It doesn’t. My favorite authors took me ages to understand. Taking an original thought and refining it takes the edge off of it, and deprives
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Trying to find the meaning of Meaning
5 minutes ago I had a distinct idea of what I was going to write in this post. Now, I only remember what’s in the title. That is to say, bear with me. Big “M” Meaning is a hard thing to nail down. A few weeks after I moved in with my current roommates (shoutout
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This Be the Place: A Castle With a Door of No Return
Bethany White reflects on a recent trip to Ghana, and to a castle which once housed captured Africans, bound for sale to slave traders. Her imagery is striking, and question interesting: how can we reconcile our own mourning processes with conflicting others?
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Drawing Board #1; Extremes of emotion – 2.16.26
Welcome to the drawing board – a resting place for works in progress and fermenting ideas. In the past couple of hours, I have been thinking about extremes of emotion. I was on Poetry Foundation’s website, looking for inspiration or at least something interesting to read, and came across a profile on Richard Hell. It
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Life will be hard, but you will come with me
Most of us are political actors only in rare moments. Every 2 or 4 years when we cast our ballots, then, perhaps, we are political actors. But, in the meantime, there is no reason for our politics to lead us, especially not when our politics preclude our humanity.
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Ground control to Major Tom.
Why start a blog? When it comes to new pursuits, or major life decisions, the ‘Why?’ question is something I am trying to get away from. I find that it is easy to justify almost any decision if you have a broad enough perspective and are willing to tell yourself a few small untruths. Why