Nature is, red rock stacked high. Nature is, the crush of fallen leaves underfoot. Nature is, a hand pulling putty out of a wall. And nature is the black and yellow bees hovering about the spiky red flowers of a pohutakawa bloom on a low bush. Nature is dirt. Nature is fire and smoke. Nature…
Tag: philosophy
Dialogue
I bastardized an historical fiction today. I adulterated the ism, the -isy, the science of retelling. Yeah, I added invented dialogue to assumed events. Events I was convinced of, Events that are unlikely, Events that have been censored. But I couldn’t resist – the book was so dull, and the evidence is so scarce, and…
Of Aether
only gods may breathe that bright air beyond the stars mortals are denied
The Position Taken Among Matters
I don’t count, every day, the strides from door to car, wondering: Philosophy, before it became religionized—key in the hole, foot lightly feeding fuel to the ignition process: I do think: philosophy, limited, by transport over mountain pass, the winters before internet and jet, before the engine search, instantaneous gov’ment, loaded with itself— Religion:…