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Tag: Ruminations

  • re place ment

    re place ment

    What does it mean “to know a place”. There is not a where you may go to find it. There is not a who to ask, or a when to look. There is no how to do or hold it. Nothing that can be sought and found out there, is Place. Yet it is yours,…

  • Foot in the other Shoe

    Foot in the other Shoe

    I had known it in theory. I too would need to be held at bay. It has been hard on me to realize, at early length with greater and greater concern, that my father will need – does need – assistance of a sort that he is unlikely to receive. When I first thought of assistance…

  • Ends and Means

    Ends and Means

    I’d like not to tell you, but to show you. It is so much more visceral that way. The condition of the place – I wonder in what way is the character of the place like that of the man who makes of it his own home – are they reflections? Can they be otherwise?…

  • Letter to the Family

    Letter to the Family

    Dearest Family, (written on the night of Oct. 4th, read and cleared for distribution by Bill on Oct. 5th.) I’m writing in hopes of answering a few questions – and probably raising many more. Certainly I will not be able to spell out every detail of what I’m here pursuing – there are a myriad…

  • Face First

    Face First

    Have been on the ground now for almost a full twenty hours. Amazing how instantaneously cultural habits return, how easy it is to slip back into an old skin… Doing Heraclitus great injury, I would appropriate his  – no man wears the same old skin twice the same way. It would be easy to become…