Coming Bare
In the interests of authenticity… The fact or quality of being true or in accordance with fact; veracity; correctness. Also (overlapping with sense) accurate reflection of real life, verisimilitude....
View ArticleExistence is the Cusp – A Journal Entry
It’s December, and I’m writing outside, lucky by so many counts. It’s December, and 45° My partner in love and life instills health and wellness in me I’m writing James is serving me coffee, ice water...
View ArticleTyranny of Transition
Greetings all – I wanted to apologize for the sloppy frenzy of disregulated writings I’ve been releasing with little meditation or editing of late. “In the midst of things…” somewhere near the...
View ArticleCelldom (continuation)
(click image for previous content) Unwittingly, I suspect, you or they have begun encouraging me to fantasize, concoct alternate realities, to record what “self-awareness” I might possess –...
View ArticleThe bum-rush of living
There are places we “escape to,” i.e. repair to for very specific reasons and purposes. Maybe an acquaintance’s pad for hurried or feverish orgasms. A park or patch of woods for perspective, silence...
View ArticleAn attempt viewed in incompletion
Impromptu Arid time and things, they pass Erase, not quite, deteriorate Inexact as well, but depleting Depleting. Depleting. . Not exactly end, ending Never a beginning Ever picked up midstride...
View Article9 Notebooks
In an act of rebellion and a kind of self-serving exorcism or slate-clearing (what blog is NOT an attempt at an entity’s expression, communication?), and facing the duress of weeks burdened with...
View ArticleBECOMING: A Something-Writing …Provisionally (cont’d)
Say it – “Mikhail!”, say it “Lover,” “son,” or “dad.” Give me a robe, a title, anything, let me to be, yet call me “Person.” (same as you). Just like with all our difference. Generic sets. And without...
View ArticleI-Native Writing: Attempt at a Self-Portrait
Things one realizes about oneself when one is “partnered” or loved well. That seems to be the theme for me of late. The differences between “automatic” self-recrimination when the Other speaks of an...
View ArticleLogos
Forced to engagement, he usually says “I”. Generic reference: one of you, one of us, one of a kind. Something different and else gathers when asked for his name. Standing by words. “Nathan”, then....
View ArticleA little secret
i hope all that goes into keeping me alive, is worth itFiled under: being, change, communication, Complexity, identity, Journaling, life, meaning, Self Tagged: Life, meaning, self, travel, truth
View ArticleSecret 2
i want never to encounter work I wish to editFiled under: Art, Books, communication, creative writing, Experience, identity, Journaling, Self, Writing Tagged: education, journaling, Life, meaning,...
View ArticleLibrarian & Litterateur…
I am not a scholar. I know that now. I am middle-aged. I have pursued no discipline, field, or “area of knowledge” to its limits. “Core literature.” Librarian. “Litterateur” (awful sound). These....
View ArticleThe ’45: Considering Complexities – On Plasticity of Identity
On Plasticity: Being Ourselves, Able to be Ourselves My birthday recurred. Post-40 in a thriving family of 6, there are not many days deemed “special” that end up being … Continue reading The ’45:...
View ArticleBegging your patience at year’s end…
The year’s end approaches. Writing by hand grows slower. In need of practice. The ubiquitous milieu of technology. A differing technology, and our relation to it. Our co-evolution with it. …...
View ArticleHarlequin piecing it together
The Harlequin can’t remember. Harlequin patchworks a quilt. RR 1 Box ?? Clearwater, Kansas ???? Independence – Wichita, Kansas Jerusalem, ISRAEL (dorms) ??? Ash – Hays, Kansas 2505 Cardinal Drive …...
View ArticleAlias Harlequin – Identities
“To recognize yourself in… To multiply your likenesses” -Edmond Jabes– And what do you suppose it is to be a “Nathan Wayne Filbert” human? To be named? Alias Harlequin? What … Continue reading Alias...
View ArticleContext of Alias Harlequin
Theory of Bloom : Tikkun Filed under: awareness, being, change, Cosmology, Critical Thought, culture, Current Reading, human, identity, life, Writing Tagged: being, culture, Everyman, Human, James...
View ArticleThe Neutre Becoming : Untitled Writing
“the writer must expose himself to his exteriority” -William Brogan- In the process of inscription, I am neutral. Ambiguously being. Neutered. Existing via language that has not yet been written …...
View ArticleAlias (inside) – a writing diary
This is long, and really, perhaps, does not belong here. Reading through notebooks to find references to Alias and Laramie in order to continue the trail or trace of them… … Continue reading Alias...
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