How To Become Part Of Language
Language is weird. It’s a kind of system that includes all these different elements — words, punctuation, meanings — and the way the elements combine, that is, grammar.
The Architecture Of Everything
Change the shape and you change experience.
There Are Two Types Of Grief
If I truly affirm everything, feel that everything that happens is as it’s supposed to happen because it did in fact happen, what do I make of the intense grief I experience with the loss of a loved one?
On Finding Your Weather
The weather is a complex system just as you and me are complex systems.
What’s The Point Of Therapy?
So much of our therapeutic culture enacts the very sickness from which we supposedly seek remedy.
Navigating Life And Death, And The Conclusion Of It All
Recently, my son has been experiencing some intense anxiety.
Sexual Fantasies Make Us Horny, And So, It Shouldn’t Make You Sick
Many people — mostly women — assume porn to be a substitute for the “real thing.”
Learning To Write: Repetition, Imitation, Relaxation
My writing as a 21 year old was pretentious and goofy (it still is!). But the fact is that by imitating Foucault and Derrida, I was training my writing muscles to perform in new ways.
Why “Why” Is A Stupid, And Dangerous, Question
The question why inspires reverence.
What You Learn From Playing A Musical Instrument, Especially If You Suck
To play an instrument is to reckon the cosmos.