Marcus Aurelius observed that all we ever encounter — this continuous present in which the world appears at all — is precisely what stands to be lost at the moment of death, not as a possession but as the condition of experience itself. Past and future exist only as internal operations within this aperture, memory […]
The stories we inherit about war and history don’t just describe conflict; they compress it into forms we can carry. That simplification is partly necessary—communication always trims reality to fit inside language—but it also steers us toward the kinds of situations those stories claim to explain. Myths of courage, sacrifice, and righteous struggle arise after […]
A stroke is the abrupt loss of blood flow to brain tissue, either because a vessel is blocked or because it ruptures. The former is ischaemic, the latter haemorrhagic, and both are catastrophic in different ways. One starves neurons, the other floods the surrounding tissue under pressure. Either path leaves a sudden absence where function […]
The image of vapour trails and diffusion captures more than transience; it maps the way systems unravel under pressure. Passing through might once have seemed neutral, a fact of existence, but it has been bent into something harsher. Entropy, which in physics names the statistical drift of order into disorder, is here mobilised by greed, […]
We come together not to dress the truth in lace, but to speak plainly: humanity had within it sparks, flashes, even storms of brilliance. The rhythm of its thought pulsed in breaths both shallow and profound—an inhalation of vision, an exhalation of confusion. Yet in ensemble, the cadence collapsed. What was sharp in one mind […]
He walked with his head tipped back, eyes pressed into the wide blue, clouds dragging their shadows across him like indifferent hands. The paddocks on either side were brittle with grass, and the orchard ahead leaned heavy with fruit. Apples, not just apples, he thought—each one a record of chance, a refusal to collapse. He […]
To live a life is to move through time as a bounded organism, continually drawn forward by needs, constraints, and the unchosen momentum of events. It is to be carried in the current of continuity, while making sense of that current by binding fragments into something resembling a narrative. The “good life,” if it can […]
He lived in a shotgun shack by the sea, patched with tin and leaning under the wind. The tide was his only clock, the gulls his only critics. He fished enough to eat, carried crates at the dock when it was needed, and spent his nights hunched over scraps of paper, writing lines that never […]
Statistically, stroke is among the most disabling medical events. About one-third of survivors regain independence, another third live with permanent disability, and roughly one in four will experience another stroke within five years. The danger is sharpest in the first year, but risk never disappears. Rehabilitation outcomes depend on severity, treatment speed, therapy, and other […]
Life isn’t a straight road to a clean finish. It’s a current, an unfinished line, carrying us forward without ever dropping us at the end of the map. Death isn’t the enemy at the gates; it’s the shadow that makes the light visible. The two belong together, circling each other like hawks on a thermal. […]
Suffering is not a mistake in the order of things; it is the order. What feels like rupture, misalignment, or lack of closure is the very condition that generates motion and awareness. Without tension, the field would dissolve into stasis. The loop persists because it cannot do otherwise, and every attempt to escape its curvature […]
Spirituality more broadly seems to have been seduced by a personality cult that opportunistically misrepresents and all too easily misunderstands messenger and signal as isomorphic with message, quite agnostic of the significance of any particular narrative. This is an elementary projective narcissism, identifying individual with an essentially inarticulable metaphysics of Other and world that is […]
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