December 2010
5 posts
wet engine || a song for caila
parrots & palms
I’m watching the film Point Break right now and there is this part at the end where Reeves (the FBI agent) lets Swazy go surf a 50ft wave instead of taking him to prison. Reeves is confident that the wave will kill him, and so says the last line of the movie, “He’s not coming back.” The movie is kind of silly even while it intends to be serious—but I still watched the thing while doing laundry and...
blue books
The one who experiences has not part in the world—for it is ‘in them’ and not between them and the world that the experience arises. Martin Buber said this in the book I and Thou and I think it hits the ground—not in a concrete sort of way, but rather, in an abstract litmus of the soul. The thing that we experience is not the experience, it is the thing. The experience is...