What if hurricane survivors compared their losses? What if they were convinced that no one else had lost as much as they did and had to constantly prove it amongst themselves? Would they demand that no one could relate to their situation and thus render any objectivism into their methods of coping unsatisfactory? “I was [...]
Taking a Ride in the Heuristic Mindcoaster
(Which is to say I wrote this while more than half asleep last night…) Her pupils scream the dialation of inebriation as she drives back from another college party. The muscles in her hands are relaxed as she adjusts the wheel to change lanes. She doesn’t feel herself slowly accellerating into the night and then she blinks [...]
The Point
I’ve been living in Naples, Italy for nearly two years. I didn’t learn the language. Instead, I learned how to play the guitar and mandolin, and dressed up in a cookie monster costume in Rome, giving hugs to hundreds of people. The Sign I held while in the costume read “One world, One Life, Make [...]
