Category Archives: meditations

Hearing an image: living with a touch of synaesthesia

Posted on June 27, 2014 by

Certain images make sounds.  Not sounds that could be mistaken for “real” sounds – no, more like the hint of a sound.  That’s been my life for at least the last ten years.  Or maybe I’ve always been this way, … Continue reading →

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Splitting the Soul: How Angosey Taught Me Philosophy

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

I developed my language, Angosey,  to express concepts that (I thought) English could not convey.  The act of scrapping all the world’s languages and coming up with my own included a few parts youthful hubris, a hefty dash of ignorance, … Continue reading →

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Geologic Time: A Biblical Metaphor

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

The Earth is very old.  We all know that.  But the age of the Earth is hard to think about in human terms.  So let’s use a metaphor: the King James Bible.  Suppose the first letter of the first verse … Continue reading →

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On Perfect Beauty

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

We often reflect on the nature of actions and emotions: whether such a ruling is just, or whether it is right to feel a certain way.  The generators of these motivations may spring from several different sources depending on whom … Continue reading →

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