by aaron | May 29, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
The following was written in Part ii of this increasingly aimless accretion: Why must you begin? Because you must. As mentioned in that same post, must is a musty way of thinking. So let’s hit it with the power washer and see what, if anything, remains...
by aaron | May 27, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
Yesterday we began, then ended up, here: If you must begin somewhere, this will do. Today we introduce the pruning shears: If you must begin somewhere You must begin somewhere You must begin The must becomes musty, but let’s ignore that for now. instead, let’s...
by aaron | May 26, 2025 | blog, Essays
If you must begin somewhere, this will do. The If is telling. Already questioning your own premises, or, worse, purposes. The You vacillates. Like a fish in a stream splaying prisms. Prisming prisms? The second-person refracted in prisms (to stick with the...
by aaron | Feb 22, 2025 | blog
Throughout my 20s and 30s I didn’t have the typical Friday night experience of going out to a bar or restaurant. Most Fridays I worked, usually at a bar or restaurant, which is a unique way both to participate in and be excluded from a typical Friday night. Working...
by aaron | Feb 14, 2025 | blog
Sometimes life hits you with certain thematic consistencies. These could be dreams or conversational topics, the smell of freshly baked peanut butter cookies or the way light slants through a window. At a certain point you notice the recurrences and begin tuning...