Creative writing and artful observations

[Magical Realist]

Writing got rid of all the emotive signs that speech always had--facial expressions, gestures, voice tone, musicality, and emphasis. Thus did a new form of emotionless and speakerless "speech" arise unencumbered by sound and that largely conveyed only feeling-neutral ideas, descriptions, generalizations, and statements of fact. The time of communicating had ended and the age of barren information had begun. But then emojis came along and saved us all!

[Magical Realist]

The challenge is always knowing someone is like you enough to empathize with them but at the same time knowing they are different enough from you to not be judged.
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In a time of widespread pretense, complicit silence, timid tongue-biting, and mindless "going along with the crowd", just speaking your mind honestly and without regret becomes a daily act of revolution. If people remember anything, they will remember that! You don't even have to TRY to be controversial. Just say what everyone else is thinking.

[Magical Realist]

“[The present moment] is a singularity that births all existence into form. It seeds our mind with fleeting consensus images that we then blow up into the voluminous bulk of projected past and future. These projections are like a cognitive ‘big bang’ unfolding in our mind. They stretch out the intangibility of the singularity into the substantiality of events in time. But unlike the theoretical Big Bang of current physics, the cognitive ‘big bang’ isn’t an isolated occurrence in a far distant past. It happens now; now; now. It only ever happens now.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

[Magical Realist]

A good writer or poet is someone who spends so little time speaking to anyone that they save up all sorts of great things to say which they then write down. The problem with that is they can go on and on saying things with no immediate feedback and sometimes lose track of saying anything humanly relevant. One can only be reminded of one's humanity by being around other humans. Even the most ethereal of spirits must make occasional forays into the realm of the flesh.

[Magical Realist]

If an alien race wants to come to our planet to learn what it means to be uniquely human, forget about observing us. Just sit down and listen to all the music we've created, from primitive drum beats to gregorian chants to symphonies to folk, jazz, soul, gospel, and rock n roll. It is thru music that humanity has always expressed itself most deeply and directly. It is here that you will most fully understand us.

[Magical Realist]

Not enough good can be said about traveling. The gaining of a new perspective. The adventure of the unknown and surprising. But still there's something about coming home that is also wonderful. Home is where you are attached to the earth and grounded. Where you can just be your weird and unseen self again, without worry or effort. It is always the last house before the infinite.