Watch a show like 1000 Ways to die and you will quickly notice that most of the horrible hellish deaths on the show are the result, frequently, of sheer stupidity. The correct thing to do with a show like this is to learn from it. Do not do as these people have done, lest you […]
Pleasures
life’s simple pleasures
Reading the signs of life, and Schuon on Intuition and Intellection
Frithjof Schuon once wrote: “…In principle, every man is capable of intellection, for the simple reason that man is man; but in fact, intellectual intuition — the “eye of the heart” — is hidden under a sheet of ice, so to speak, because of the degeneration of the human species. So we may say that […]
Unique encounters, and mendacity
I treasure encountering new people. It’s a strange thing, I like feeling like I am discovering a new world, and when conversing with a stranger, I get this feeling. Every encounter with a new person, if we are receptive, can be as superficial or deep as we make it. For example, I met a delightful […]
I awoke to a world painted in shades of milk
I forgot how much I love the snow. Granted, it doesn’t suit my equatorial genotype, but God, I swear I love the pristine and crisp freshness of it all. The landscape is overlain with a fatal beauty, you know looking at it that in this desert of frozen white sands, you could die. There is […]