Where does it come from, The longing to be stronger, Richer, With a healthier or more beautiful spouse? On better land? With surer footing in the world? Where does it come from, The feeling of missing one another? My father, my sister, my brother, my kin, All are so far away; I want to return… Continue reading Receding into death
Tag: Judgement
Why do we judge? (spiritual talk)
Attached is one of my favorite videos I’ve done, at least second to the one that started it all. It is an exploration and disambiguation of judgement—short and simple, clocking in at just under thirty minutes. Some of the questions include the following: what is judgement? How does it function? Why do we persist in… Continue reading Why do we judge? (spiritual talk)
Engaged reading, part II: engaged annotation
In the way that we were taught to annotate texts in school, a standard annotation might have pursued a formula something like the following: ‘on this page, such and such character does such and such. This connects with the novel’s overall theme of blank, producing the holistic theme of blank.’ This is obviously simplified, but… Continue reading Engaged reading, part II: engaged annotation
Engaged reading, part I: antipodiatry
In the way most of us have been trained to read literature, we regard characters in a text as entities outside ourselves from whom we have nothing to learn. This is why we call the practice ‘criticism:’ we make up ‘theses’ as to the characters’ motives and meanings, justify these theses with ‘evidence,’ and deliver… Continue reading Engaged reading, part I: antipodiatry
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 