As humans, we don’t really need to establish a firm foundation upon which to live – we can live as we are, entangled and living with – and occasionally, in certain senses, rising up from – our actual, original existence
May 13, 2025
I never did want to do much, and now I want to do even less
May 8, 2025
A few things, still
Bravery is a fundamental, existential emergence
May 8, 2025
The ability to risk, and then to entertain failure, is a new way of being, and an attractive and compelling one Especially when grounded in and in creative interaction with the deeper drives for security and relationship
It has to be for being alive. It’s good that way.
May 8, 2025
Maybe even, It’s gouda that way.
Turning toward the light, but concerned, afraid, cautious of being burned
April 15, 2025
At the level, or in the realm, of choice, of Choosing – one basic question always is: is my present aliveness a passing thing, to fade back into the general brown, the everyday miasma, perhaps the deeper darknesses; or might, can, could , should, will it be a new level of living, moving forward?
April 15, 2025
The peripatation of the house, looking appreciatively out of any, each, and every window
April 15, 2025
With Trump and Putin United, the world is being reshaped by Northern businessmen, hucksters, Ceasars, czars
April 15, 2025
The basic existential question is, whether to be alive in the world, or to go deep within
April 15, 2025
Or, to have the capacity to do both, or Ben to do them at once Or, to find out, and to realize, that they are at bottom the same thing The details always dependent and attendant in the actual condition of the biological organism, appropriate to the changing times
It feels again like something fundamental – but of what fundament would it be?
April 3, 2025
“Of what fundament?” is a central question of existential exploration “Of What Fundament” would be a great name for a rock band
Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D. 