2 dreams dreamt in as many successive nights suggests a mysterious significance, owing to the spatial emphasis they shared. During the first, I was presented with an alphanumeric code: a letter followed without space by a two-digit whole number. I silently wondered how I could discern from this the associated location, which I intuitively knew…
The existence of 401(k)s serves as an admission that salaries/wages are too depressed to extend into retirement the coverage of costs associated with the standard of living a former employee enjoyed while employed. We are goaded, then, to play the game, to be complicit participants, lest we one day lose the comforts to which we’ve…
The placebo effect demonstrates the mind’s capacity to outperform a given treatment. Within contextual limits, one can deduce from it the impact on the body of believing to be true something that is false. I’m interested here in a related concept that follows quite naturally: what is the impact of believing to be true something…
Until a dispute is resolved in favor of one of the participating parties, it might be supposed that once each party has articulated its argument and, in so doing, established the merit of its position relative to the positions of the other participants–as judged by the notorious Impartial Third Party–the arrangement of participants in order…
What better topic for the first post in nearly a year than a reflection on the evolution of one’s writing? It’s worth noting that I’ve given only cursory thought to this matter–I have no map with which to speculate where this post will lead, and any conclusions will be reached purely by means of its…
Last December, smiling wryly, a friend asked, “What is a hallucination?” Judging by the way in which the query was posed–the inflections as well as the nonverbal cues–it was clear he had already settled the question in his mind, probably years prior, and was asking to satisfy his curiosity of my opinion on the matter…
Winter, whose last breath began here yesterday, is forecast to continue until it froths at the mouth with characteristic New England spittle snowfall tomorrow. For a season on its death bed, its strength exceeds expectation–vernal equinox be damned. The wind, its notes sustained and hollow, lends itself to juxtaposition with the tranquility of our apartment,…
During a recent visit to the vault* of unshared musings, I discovered the pen-sketched framework of what I expound on here. It is common, I’m sure, when examining for the first time in years an artifact of one’s own creation, to be cognizant of a mild and sustained excitement that results from experiencing the fragments…
Many behaviors which initially appear incongruent reveal themselves, on closer examination, not to be. Often, such discoveries are made possible by differentiating the circumstances surrounding the behaviors in question. For example, one may observe the unconcern with which people converse in crowded places and wonder at why a lone stranger approaching on a hiking trail…
The pedestrian crosswalk signals were in my favor this evening; as I approached intersections, and just before I reached them, the red hand repeatedly yielded to the white man–or the white men, it might be said, since there was the one in the sign and the one that was me. It was as if an…
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