I used to write to her. They were songs about stars and the midnight moon. Sometimes she was cast a spectral beauty, the shade of a Renaissance painting, the perpetually adolescent vampire queen (we were both Anne Rice fans those days). Those stories were invariably about her and her boyfriend. She thought I was mocking … Continue reading Memories of a childhood friend
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On Learning: My Education is Not a bottle of Whiskey
I’m doing the Learning how to Learn course on Coursera. One of the assignments called for more introspection on one’s learning journey than was allowed for, so I’ll continue here. Over the years I developed a rather misguided view on learning and personal development. I thought people were more like whiskey – only as good … Continue reading On Learning: My Education is Not a bottle of Whiskey
Part 2 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
For some years after meeting the bespectacled grape-eating finger-licking demigod, I became a devotedly religious child. I was a ‘somethingist’… or whatever that cult was called. For once in my life I felt a sense of serenity, knowing my life was secure, that though I walked alone on dark and foggy roads, a greater force … Continue reading Part 2 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
Part 1 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spagheti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
On his sixth birthday, the Mother took Peter to meet the oracle of her Sect. Peter remembers two things about that trip. One, that it was a restaurant which served fried scorpions as an exotic dish, and he spent most of lunch peering into a terrarium wondering what it'd be like to be stung by … Continue reading Part 1 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spagheti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
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