Tag Archives: meaning

Sidelines

Posted on February 7, 2010 by

Don’t let me sit on the sidelines. Never let me watch others make the world go round. Never let me watch others dance the night away. Never let me see the band play on without me. Never let me… wait … Continue reading →

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Point omega review and completely unedited ramblings from a plane above new mexico

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

i finished a book. it’s not clear to if i liked it. sparse, existensial, left hanging. point omega. a novella set in the desert in the recent past. characters searching for slowness and vastness…. zen…. the moment, a moment. an … Continue reading →

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Everything Matters Review

Posted on July 14, 2009 by

Ron Currie Jr delivers a really fun, clever read in Everything Matters! The book cover sells the book as more of comedy than than the sci fi/philosophy/absurdist mystery it is.  The essential question of the book – does anything we … Continue reading →

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog Review and Questions

Posted on April 25, 2009 by

I completed my Elegance of the Hedgehog experience.  Indeed, this is a heartbreaking story.  It’s more than your average outcast meets cool stranger finds redemption. The story asks the big question: does life have any meaning? The book does the … Continue reading →

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Chasing the autonomous man…

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

Consider that Ernest Jones, the colleague and biographer of Sigmund Freud has said that science has dealt three heavy blows to mankind’s self-love (narcissism; separation above and from other animals) above all else. One was the cosmological and it was … Continue reading →

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Mirror Neurons – a fictionalized interview…

Posted on July 2, 2008 by

Make no mistake.  These things were not said in this fashion and were not said in this manner in an interview between Mind Matters editor, Jonah Lehrer and neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni in American Scientist magazine.    What you have here … Continue reading →

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