Something about love

Something about love

“Do you love me?” “Yes. I do. I love the you that lives in me.” “Is there something else?” “There is.” “What is it?” “It’s the part of you that lives inside everyone else.” “So, what about that part?” “It’s an important part of you.” “Is that it?” “No. There’s...
Availability Heuristic

Availability Heuristic

What do you know for certain?  What do you remember?  What occurs to your memory as you think or utter a proposition?  How cognitively assured are you of your present perceptions?  What is actually happening in the world around us, near us, far from us, on the other...
Signature

Signature

The wind shines lightning on the mountains gloom; darker in a moment’s moment it will be. Anticipation casts an icy chill in my bones, petrified as the fossil through to the innards. And when at last the danger comes it changes its mind and hides. Now swift, more fast...
Needs must…

Needs must…

Scrolling through Twitter recently, with the usual catatonic focus social media tends the human cognition toward, my attention was caught by a headline from The Dodo (thedodo.com, @dodo) stating that baby river otters are being stolen from their families to be sold...
Faces

Faces

You’d be surprised, what with the nearing 8 billion human beings that currently inhabit this tiny world, by the lack of variability in our faces.  There really are such a small number of possibilities, which might not actually be so surprising when we consider the...