Stepping out to the pool, I felt the expected yet unfamiliar anxiety. The water and my body did not agree; My body was wholly against being immersed; The water was adequately heated. The process would have been much easier, if I could have robotically entered the water. Although my motions were seemingly mechanical, I was required to exert an ( Read more... )

At first, there’s just the thought, ‘You can make it.’ I physically verify each of my necessary belongings: Backpack, lunch bag, cell phone, PDA. The building’s stairs are patient with my quickened steps. In the basement, I allow myself one more expanse of hastened strides before I jump on the pressure sensor that opens the garage gate. From here ( Read more... )

There is an idea that human language has its uniqueness in its ability to communicate intangible ideas. For example, only words could convey imagined situations that involve non-existent creatures in a place that is beyond comprehension (‘A grey, pizza-shaped applemonger being chased by semi-spherical rubinks through an inverted wormhole chasm.’) ( Read more... )