The stuff gets organized.

In which I attempt to put things together in a cohesive, mosaic sort of presentation.

Break the mold with me.

Tailoring.

I'm going to trim the extraneous accumulations down to a reasonable minimum, to preserve both the quality and the flavor of the basic, yet divine cuts of enlightenment.

Stuff on my Mind.

From the Serpent and the Rainbow.

"To understand... you must think of a glass of water. You cannot avoid touching the glass, but it is just a means of support. It is the water that slakes your thirst and it is the water, not the glass, that keeps you alive."

Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow

Spring! Why are you so far away!

Have you ever tried to paint on layers of subtlety, so that you could become more human? What is it to be human, if not to have these levels of sentience, of experience, and reflection, and graceful separation and yet revelation with the world around you?

I don't know. I feel like we are losing depth, even as we sink deeper into the stagnant mediocrity of Western civilization. A few people are breaking out of the monotony; sometimes I have to shake myself awake in order to keep on swimming up and out of it.