My Boyfriend is a Secret Yo-yo Champion

As we approach our first anniversary, my moondoggy and I step further and further out of the shapeless abyss and into our bodies dancing together.  And in the process of taking form, we ever discover small secrets and delights — hidden not for their shimmering angry brightness, in fact not hidden at all, just uncarefully [...]

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Thoughts on the Noumenal

“A noumenon in the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. Also called thing-in-itself. “
Source: noumenal. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved August 14, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/noumenal
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Does the thing-in-itself actually exist?
Take, for instance, an apple. [...]

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