if quiddity can’t be fixed, then “the quiddity still remains” should be read as “a recognizable continuity persists”, not “an essence survives untouched.” growth-talk is still often inflated especially when it implies a metaphysical upgrade but it isn’t necessarily superficial.
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i went into your mother your mother your mother unprepared. by the end i was in tears, not at the violence, but at the old, nearly forgotten truth that a loved one’s prayer can resurrect you.
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i don’t share my grandmother’s superstition, but she seemed never to be wrong about one thing: when your left palm itches, it means bad luck. after years of denying it, i’ve come to think the strangeness lies less in the omen than in
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how can this wet meat behind my eyes produce so much kuebiko in me, this scarecrow stillness i can't shake?
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Gerald retweeted
Happy birthday to Dizzy Gillespie, born on this day in 1917!
Trumpeter and composer at the center of bebop, alongside Charlie Parker. Later a key figure in Afro-Cuban jazz, with a signature bent horn and blazing upper register.
in the dancing of these flames, we catch a glimpse of the old, univocal world where the inner warmth of the soul and the outer warmth of the hearth were one and the same. the fire is not a 'thing' we observe; it is an event in which we are still, whether we know it or not,
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Gerald retweeted
In a quiet Chinese village, a heritage guardian keeps a 1,000-year-old craft alive: making Longquan celadon by hand. Watch clay become jade-like porcelain. Timeless beauty, passed down.
#LongquanCeladon #IntangibleCulturalHeritage #ChineseCraft
sitting in an asana while doing a single arm dumbbell curl is actually a really interesting workout.
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sleep is often characterized as a lesser death. i understand the analogy, but i personally think it understates the peculiar ontology of sleep. death is an end; sleep is an interruption from which something returns. further, the temporary dissolution of consciousness without the
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Hmm, Some pretty interesting theories in here. I’m not a Navy SEAL, but I was in Special Forces, and I was blessed with three daughters. We lost one along the way.
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