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The Absence of Analog
Over the last year, I’ve stopped keeping an analog journal for the first time in my life. It has, mostly, to do with my lack of a work/life balance, the absence of a good desk in my small NYC apartment, and free time. Still – I miss it. Here are some old images from my [...]
Thinking About What Sarah Said
I was sitting with Sarah at a nice wine bar called 10 Degrees on St. Mark’s between Ave A and 1st, when she shared the story of Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez. The story, in its basic form, goes like this: When Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez landed in Mexico, one of his first orders to [...]
Leadership
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. ~ Henry Miller
The Way I See It #280
You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. Find someone with whom you don’t agree in the slightest and ask them to explain themselves at length. Then take a seat, shut your mouth, and don’t argue back. It’s physically impossible to listen with your mouth open. ~John Moe; Radio Host [...]
The Way I See It #281
I’ve never bought the “lowest common denominator” image of popular art. Too many artists worry that populatiry is the same as being “Middle of the road.” I’m much more into the idea that the middle is the highest point. On a map, the center of a mountain is its peak. You need to climb very [...]
Where are the Leaders?
We are accustomed to think of ourselves as an emancipated people; we say that we are democratic, liberty-loving, free of prejudices and hatred. This is the melting pot, the seat of the great human experiment. Beautiful words, full of noble, idealistic sentiment… Actually, we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by [...]
Cities & Names 5: Irene
Irene is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on, and in the limpid air, the pink of the settlement can be discerned spreadout in the distance below: where the windows are more concentrated, where it thins out in dimly lighted alleys, [...]
The Way I See It #288
“My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth, I was raised in the West and have a Ph.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit separate worlds. Only then will we find the heart to rise to the daunting but urgent challenges of [...]
Henry Miller "Reflections on Writing" excerpt
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order to eventually become that path [...]
