Love Letters. Best used as bookmarks after they’ve been read.
Fear of death. Indistinguishable from fear of exile and material vulnerability. The human organism’s greatest fear is being friendless.
Forgiveness is worth attempting again and again—must be attempted again and again (like any acrobatics routine).
Reading is both a metaphor of and a literal description for being. To read, or decipher, is fundamental to remaining alive. Sapiens are decoding animals.
Creative certainty is the mind’s response to lived uncertainty. Imagination is a therapy for inference engines (the brain/soul) when they overheat–when they face too much chaos, too many variables and unknowns.
In the eyes of others: narcissistic apathy—a draining away of essence.
There is a sense that images must be let through—
The skeptical tragedy of the cemetery elms, the hypnosis
And hymn of the heart. Having lost perspective on all this,
And having thought that the strangeness was real.