Why We Don’t Date: An Anti-Polemic

This is how it should be:
Because the cosmos is lit with magic and full of wonderment, it contains inside it all the reactive elements needed to create new universes inside itself.  With the flit of a small set of wings, so much can be changed, created, dismantled, renewed, and restructured.  In the merest of moments, [...]

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Are we still unfledged?

The guillemot (a European bird much like Bernsie, herself) hurls itself off a precipice before it is fully fledged, not as a test of will or wings, but as an instinctual following act just a few steps behind its mother.  And the fledgling guillemot doesn’t stick the landing.  It doesn’t even fly.  The guillemot feels [...]

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Best Reason to Neglect Your Spleen

Do you know the functional purpose of the spleen?
I can’t think of one.
And certainly there can be no aesthetic or therapeutic purpose for the spleen.
So, folks, I can think of no better time to buy your spleen a coffin!
That’s right, our friends at spleencoffin won Best of Baltimore for Best DIY Local Record Label!!!  And [...]

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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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A Polemic on Listmaking

We are, between us, the following:
One world traveler/grad-student-to-be/post-Brookylnite/post-post-Baltimorean/canvas shoe wearer/fledgling orthalogian/daily consumer of Americanized Mexican food
One domestic cat-lady-in-waiting/psychiatric rehabilitation specialist/counselor/fledgling harpist/wannabe philatelist/incredibly redundant wordsmith/potential theology student
We are both cheeky. And avid coffee swindlers. And, of course, obsessive list-makers.
Once in a seminar/training, titled “Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: The Cornell Model,” I was asked about my own [...]

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