It’s easy to see things as they aren’t. The older I get, the more I find value in being wrong. Of course, in most situations it’s important and urgent to be correct, or to withhold opinion. Every year, though, these situations seem fewer and fewer.
It’s important to know when to brake while driving and to [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
Seeing Things Wrongly
Leaving Something
I’m usually underwhelmed by what others intentionally leave behind for passersby to find. I appreciate it, honestly, and normally not just for the intent. The things people do to impress and inspire, particularly in my neighborhood are lovely, lovely acts and so far better than the advertisements that outnumber them by so many. [...]
Memorial Day Shrines
I was asked today why I wasn’t promoting nshrine for Memorial Day. It’s a good idea, and were I not on the end of a development cycle and perhaps blinded by trying to come up with longer-term promotion strategies, I might have been ready for the idea. But to be honest with myself, [...]
Gloves and Me
I’ve been taking a hell of a lot of glove pictures. I can find more than a dozen gloves in a single walk. I take pictures of about four out of every five I see. I have thousands of glove pictures. I find the postures of fallen gloves extremely expressive. More than any other type [...]
A Word For It
What I most want to write about, I don’t know how to name. That leaves pointing and shrugging, I guess.
I’ve spent a lot of my life doing some sort of faithless divination, looking for signs that I know have no meaning and giving them meaning. In oracula.org, I’ve placed some things based on an nonacademic, [...]
Intent and False Starts
I think I’ll be sticking with this one. I’ve had some false starts at blogging, but I have some faith that I know what I’m doing this time. Most improbably, this time I think I have the confidence to keep up something that has nothing to do with anything but what I think and [...]