August 2011
4 posts
March 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
1 tag
Late night winter snack after coming home
Dethawing fingers gleaning heat off toast just popped from toaster stiff butter softening as I spread.
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
7 posts
1 tag
1 tag
Berlin, hands, triangles.
I love the grand scale of everything here, this city that spreads across the expansive flat terrain, these streets so spacious and generously so to let you take in the magnificent proportions of their regal buildings .
I love the architecture here, particularly the Neo-Renaissance apartment buildings which are pleasant but to the point. There are no flowery excesses or fru fru decorations here....
September 2010
6 posts
1 tag
Nosebleed season
With the weather turning warmer and drier, it’s nosebleed season again up in Miho’s sinuses. Agh. Just when I’d thought I’d finally grown out of it!
That said, it inspired me to write the following passage. No, I’ve never been punched in the face before (nor ever will be, here’s hoping), but I got a flash of what it must be like…
Getting punched in the...
August 2010
2 posts
July 2010
7 posts
March 2010
9 posts
“First, say to yourself what you would be.
Then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus (AD 55–AD 135)
Pixolu →
Absolutely brilliant image search engine, created in part by one of my very clever ex-flatmates. The site is pretty self explanatory, but here’s the introductions page.
February 2010
12 posts
Chiaroscuro
<draft – in progress>
I count the hours till your morning time For the night to creep away from yours to seep into mine For me to see your icon rise to say you’re back online
“We’re like a life tag team” you wrote, and it made me smile to read your mail though I’d just missed you before my time to sleep.
And out there you bring the bright beaked turns, the hoppy hoppy silver eyes and the...
The shape of god.
As written by Aristotle, here are the views by Xenophanes (c. 565-470B.C.) on why God would look less like a buff Billy Connolly and more like an unhatched pokemon. As an atheist, his theory on the matter seems the most plausible:
“If God is the best of all, then, he claims, there can be only one. For if there are two or even more, then the one cannot anymore be the very best and strongest...
