Amid The Mountains
When in Austria last year, my love for mountains was born simply by being exposed to mountains for the first time in my life. Driving through California approaching San Diego has reawoken that love and reminded me that I need to spend more time among the mountains because they are among the most beautiful things [...]
A Beast Or A God
Who could endure solitude? to live among the enormity of nature where there is no one else? Anyone who, having felt this solitude even as a remote image for a day, believes himself truly capable of it seems slightly mad — if not fully mad. Men are not meant to be alone. Those who always [...]
Right In Front Of You
Not seeing what is in front of you — this is stupidity. The opposite — seeing more than is in front of you — is insanity — and for this reason insanity is so often coupled with intelligence. A world with too much meaning is preferible to a world with too little meaning.
Goodheartedness In Essentia
I won’t take a single smile for granted.1 With Honor : This Is Our Revenge : You Always Said↩
Death
I find myself thinking about death a great dealy lately. I think it started as a recurring theme of my thoughts after I realized that I am turning 25 in six months. 25 is an age I think I never really imagined reaching. I imagine getting old, but it’s indefinitely old — there’s never a [...]
The Origin Of Marriage
When and under what conditions did the institution of marriage originate? Do we have any anthropological records about the beginnings of the institution? Or has something comparable to marriage existed since far before recorded history? Pairing seems a natural part of human life. The length of the upbringing of children necessitates a long term involvement [...]