Tag: Adulthood
The wisdom of a stuffed animal
What do we gain through hanging out with a stuffed animal? What do we learn about ourselves? Why is it only acceptable in our culture for children to do this? What does that tell us about the meaning of the word "adulthood"? https://youtu.be/VhOw-tt4UOU
Obituary to my childhood self
You are responsible for some of my earliest memories. Not earliest, I suppose—we didn’t meet until I was seven years old. Still, the memories feel primordial: they feel like they coincide with the genesis of my being. Playing in New Mexico, I remember vast expanses of hills and trees, valleys into which we would look… Continue reading Obituary to my childhood self
Psychic mapping
Psychic mapping is the essence of our process of reading literature, that place where we do the seizing of wisdom that is central to this process. As such, it is also the place about which we most likely experience trepidation: if we have access to wisdom through our process of reading literature, then surely we… Continue reading Psychic mapping
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 