Power dresses itself in tailored certainty, but it runs on the same brittle circuits as the rest of us. The billionaires, the opportunists, the half-literate fist-pumpers who mistake grievance for strategy — they’re just another jittery species dancing under a star that occasionally throws a Carrington-class mood swing. One electromagnetic hiccup, and every boast, every […]
Context: Solar storm on Thursday expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states These events are nothing if not a reminder of the diminutive transience of our own lives and (all of) our aspirations, agendas, affiliations and vanities. In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the character Zaphod Beeblebrox enters a machine called […]
There was a time when I used to stare into sunsets and ask the sun what it was. I would raise my eyes to the starry skies and silently whisper to myself that such vaulted majesty just can not be real. I spent years learning, accumulating knowledge and deep intuitions about the stars, the galaxies, […]
The mad parade of daily, weekly, yearly working life catches up with me in these moments…
Daedelus Kite 