love

  • Love’s Generative Nothingness: A Philosophical Reflection

    Original Spontaneous Insight Love is making something out of nothing. Creatio ex nihilo. Love makes, builds, creates connections where none are and a life together that has not yet been lived. Upon no thing can anyone discover such a possibility.… Continue reading

    Love’s Generative Nothingness: A Philosophical Reflection
  • When daddy went homeward

    A small memory of faith, hope, and love. Continue reading

    When daddy went homeward
  • APHORISM 20Feb2023

    Desire-Friendship-Charity: Will you risk yourself for love? Continue reading

    APHORISM 20Feb2023
  • and… still

    …Still There she sits in memory Drifting on the edge of tomorrow Laughter fills the daydream light Tears baptize her pillows Time is stillness, time is… Every night in prayer for love Recalling all the dearest hearts That sometimes called… Continue reading

  • Ora et Labora

    When life itself seemed to fall outside the core attention of his labors, he would go watch the grass and flowers, birds and critters in their communal dance. Continue reading

    Ora et Labora
  • Loving devotion

    Caring for another, being-open for that other and to that other: these are aspects of our animated existence, of our being-with others. Do not fail to see devotion where it appears nor fail to appreciate how all life teaches us lesson… Continue reading

    Loving devotion
  • 2015 #love

    Make this a year of love: #consolation #comprehension #compassion Continue reading

  • Embracing the broad cosmos

    We never know with any certainty where we are going. Only conviction carries us forward. And such conviction, if it would do better than we did yesterday, must arise from a courageous assessment of who we are by looking at… Continue reading

    Embracing the broad cosmos
  • Speaking in Tongues

    humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading

    Speaking in Tongues
  • Love – To Not Be – Asleep

    Faith: trusting Hope: expecting Love: creating      Here comes the sun To be: having To become: flowing To not be: emptying      Raindrops keep falling on my head Awake: questioning Dreaming: transforming Asleep: detaching      The baffled… Continue reading

    Love – To Not Be – Asleep
  • Socratic Love

    Love is simple. Continue reading

    Socratic Love
  • Nina Simone – If You Knew – YouTube

    Tomorrow, my beloved and I celebrate ten years together. I love you Christopher! Continue reading

    Nina Simone – If You Knew – YouTube
  • Textimony 20140306

    Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live. Continue reading

    Textimony 20140306
  • Tears of Joy in my Life

    When tears begin to flow in the moment of an ecstatic joy, I find an awareness of just how much the body–with all its pains and perturbations–is the necessary crossroads of possible Transcendenz. The feel of my gut contacting, my… Continue reading

    Tears of Joy in my Life
  • Willing Embrace

    In order to open up a cipher of the Encompassing Good, our mindfulness must turn to what obtains eternally, hold it as an idea, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. A paraphrase of… Continue reading

    Willing Embrace
  • at last november

    Going up now to the shop to drop off the car for Chris so I can walk back homeward cool air–at last November Continue reading

    at last november
  • Dwindling Ignorance

    Conservation of energy does not mean preservation of energy. See the latter as opposite to entropy while the former is middle ground betwixt the two. The struggle of conservation we call life; our way through it, love; our outcome, belief.… Continue reading

    Dwindling Ignorance