My favorite writers write about mind and body, more specifically about the paradox of body and mind. I love reading paradox, especially Rushdie's parallel paradoxes, as well as Kundera's neatly discussed-but-not-entirely-explained paradoxes. I love them so much that a fantasy I've had about the results of an imaginary philosophy paper worries me ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with cold fingers under two blankets, and I knew it was fall. I went outside wearing long sleeves and a coat, turned to my father locking the door, and said "There's something worth remembering about the first day you walk outside and feel like this." Like cool water, the air flowed smoothly over my face and ruffled the edges ( Read more... )

They remind me, only together, of thanksgiving at my grandmother's house 10-12 years ago. I've refered to my grandmother before as a matriarch and to her house as my family's mecca, but 10 or so years ago, it was more so. My family was really bigger, and half of us were children. Family events were more packed, and we all ate on the floor with ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was reading an Evergreen State College brochure on my grandma's front porch swing, thinking about their list of majors, swaying the wrong way. I heard the thunder before I saw the storm, a long time before I saw rain. Lightning struck a tree in the alley across the street before there was a drop anywhere nearby. The air felt and looked ( Read more... )

When I was in the first or second grade, I had special 'play time' with the school counselor, to find a reason why I wasn't turning any work in to the teachers. I went to the sideroom of the library, and the counselor sat in her chair in the back of the room and talked to me while I played with all of the different toys in the room. In theory, I ( Read more... )

Does seeing everything through a protective glass affect the way in which you see, the way you think, the way you feel? How could it not? It's a constant presence on the tip of your nose, just behind visibility, casting a shade on every thing and every person. It inspires an objectiveness and aloofness less common in clearer visioned people. It ( Read more... )

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