Epigraphs and Exegeses

Theses? Koans? Thought-poems Glosses? Pensées? Meditations? Koans? Precepts? Principia? Thought-poems So, maybe – Precepts and Pensées: Thought-poems (Maybe a few different genres, depending on content, and overall flow and trajectory – why not?)

Commitment and devotion depend on having a whole life that supports them

Born in an individual of culture-fed imagination, they achieve maturity and success in the shaping and strengthening of that life And you can therefore gain more insight into what the character and content of that commitment or devotion is, by observing the contours of the life which it has reshaped ~~~~~~~~ Like for example Shinwell … More Commitment and devotion depend on having a whole life that supports them

Cholesterall

6/17/25: Feeling a similar pattern of pain in legs after starting Zetia – muscle aches and stiffness in groin, thighs, and calves, while joints seem fine; tendons in same state as since last time, don’t feel any worse since Zetia but still pretty significant. I’m wondering if this isn’t an effect of the drugs in … More Cholesterall

Apparently, the Pentagon is in disarray because of Hegseth – I’m wondering if this weekend, all the actual gangs in America, maybe even in the Americas, across geographical and racial and cultural differences, might unite and rise up and exert some real disruptive and destabilizing resistance to the current U.S. corporate regime – with the probable effect of pushing us into an overtly militarized society, another step toward fascism, or rather, at this point, deeper into it – but also with the possible effect of helping birth one of those other worlds that have become possible

Do the gangs have a Project 2025? (Do the Democrats, the left, progressives, radicals?) More important, do the communities themselves, those directly and broadly under assault, have an awareness and consciousness and intent about what is happening, what might happen, what they might want to happen?