A Beat Behind Kant says we are removed from these moments of our lives and we only know their effect just as our vision of stars’ light, living on after their technicolored deaths, is distant from the star itself, heaving gas and heat, a flame – no, a frame of light just visible and always …
Tag: philosophy
Yoga Teacher Training Musings
I've been thinking a lot about the concept of dharma recently, since it's been a major theme in some of the readings for my yoga teacher training, like the Bhagavad Gita. Dharma is similar to the western concept of "love what you do; do what you love," or the Christian concept of God's plan (Jeremiah …
Firsts
I was jamming to this song ("2080" by Yeasayer) while cutting up some shallots the other night. I've always misinterpreted one of the lines to be, "It's the first spring some have seen." (These are the real lyrics, if you're interested.) I prefer my version because it reminds us that spring is special and beautiful, and …
Easy to Forget
Below are a few brief thoughts I wanted to share with you all before I get back to doing what I should really be doing. (That ever-growing pile of clothes next to my bed isn't going to fold itself?) A wonderful description of love I came across today, from this poem: "I have one way …
