It is only possible to do something ironically up to three times, after that, that’s just who you are.

Too many worry about the legacy that they will leave behind to capture their past and present for posterity. No, the real question is what future do you want to help build.

We are all responsible for the situations we find ourselves within, whether we authored them or not.

To exist is to open up to failure as a horizon of possibility, but also to exist is to stave off failing.

If it happens to you, you ask “why me?” If it doesn’t happen to you, you ask “why not me?” Regardless of anything, events happening or not happening provide a discomfort for what is and what is not.

Some unreliable narrators will tell such extravagant truths about themselves that it raises the question of what it is that they are leaving out.

Only a fool knows oneself.

Paris January 2025 (in collaboration with Meg Piorko)

If you sit very still in these times, you can feel the mechanisms of a trap closing. The crises that we face today are all interconnected and closing in to ensnare us all in a cascade of disasters near and far. The trap has been laid out by the greed of the powerful and the cowardice of others who are also powerful but have decided to play powerless. The trap plays on our ignorance of it, but may still snatch us up if we do notice it. Environmental disaster, political strife, terrorism, control, domination, these are all different teeth in the trap, all coming together in unison. Similar and overlapping with the realization that one will one day die, the recognition of the trap is unnerving, and if you see the trap you will never unsee it. It’s getting late.

Sometimes articulating a problem in its full light is still just a problem, but now we can all see it for what it is.

Just let people live and go about their lives, what’s wrong with you?

Truisms & Aphorisms

See you in Hell, neighbor