Author: Tim

• Love is never unmasked.

• Jung: “Thinking is difficult…”

  — Carl Jung

• Ontology trumps autonomy; Design trumps theory; nature trumps wishing.

• Move through your day so that your night dreams are aphoristic, not surreal.

• Profile is the beginning of absence.

• Glossary: Myth: a story you feel part of.

• John Ruskin on design, using organic forms

  It is difficult to give you an idea of the grace and interest which the simplest objects possess when their forms are thus abstracted from among the surrounding of rich circumstance which in nature disturbs the feebleness of our attention. — “The Work of Iron”, as collected in “On Art and Life”

• Oscar Wilde: “…my diary…something sensational to read on the train.”

  Wilde once wrote: “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

• Daisy (2009-2022)

  (January 17, 2009 – May 21, 2022) Daisy went to sleep yesterday. I held her head as she faded, first from the anesthetic then as her heart stopped, invisibly, from the second syringe. I last saw her from above as I stood up to leave the veterinarian’s exam room. She was stretched out prone, chin…

• Mary Ruefle: Metaphor is “…an exchange of energy between two things…”

  “..an event…the philosophy that everything in the world is connected…that things connect and exchange energy.”