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Wheresoever We May Roam

Moody — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000

Consider the warmth of the body in the chill of the night. Self-contained, a furnace; heat, the presence of life. We glow in the infrared. Our coupling makes us glow the brighter, and we appear to merge with one another. The backdrop for this is the cold eternity of interstellar space. This backdrop is the [...]

“You get what anyone gets—you get a lifetime”

Moody — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:38:51 +0000

Life is precious. I mean, you have to realize it for it to be true—but once you do, you see how obvious it is. It helps if you read a lot, watch good movies, care about others and the state of the world and do something about it. I’m not sure how you can be [...]

Day Off And So Forth

Moody — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:47:45 +0000

Woke up around 6:50 in the AM to make sure our boy made it to the bus on time. Fixed some instant coffee (-like substance) and sat in bed reading Infinite Jest for awhile. I read before work every morning, which is usually the only time I get to actually sit and read anything not [...]

Tree of Æons

Moody — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:53:54 +0000

From so humble a beginning as the blind dance of chemicals may represent, from out of the depths of unconscious ages in life’s Ultima Thule, the Tree of Life arose from the primordial chaos, sui generis, to grow through countless ages, to diversify its fruits, to send tendrils of spiral DNA, winding and raveling, into [...]

Humanitarium

Moody — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:48:34 +0000

hu•man•i•tar•i•um noun 1a. a place in which the whole of our humanity may be viewed in a loving and compassionate manner. 1b. humanity as so viewed: with feelings of love he beheld all lives as one humanitarium.

One removes one’s shoes before entering, for here no artificial sole shall tread. The bare feet shall feel only the grass, [...]

I am beginning to think…

Moody — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:19:56 +0000

Poised on the edge of an abyss, we surf the wave of being into the future. It requires skill, and foresight, control, and concentration. One wrong move and, acutely unbalanced, we will topple into the crushing chaos of the massive wave. Karma is what happens at the point where intention meets action and action metes [...]

Time and Distance

Moody — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:52:36 +0000

Now is the time to break out that copy of Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygène or maybe your Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline CD. Did you get it? O.K. Good. Put it on, and let’s take a trip…

Out into the big, lonely universe.

The next time it’s dark and clear out, go outside [...]

Meaning Meaning

Moody — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:15:59 +0000

We cannot escape our human understanding of the world. We find meaning in life, in the universe, within the parameters of our human senses. Meaning itself is, as we know it and experience it, a human invention. This is not to say that there is only human meaning; cetaceans and avians may well have, at [...]