Meditations for the Heart, Mind, and Spirit

An elegy for one at the end of life...

Numerology, mathematics, and our general attraction to digits speaks volumes about our species. Why are we so fascinated by numbers? For many reasons, not the least of which is their semiotic value. Numbers are symbolic. One represents the solitary, and to some three a divinity, while a dotetracontagon might signify the emotional nuance percolating within a person. More simply, numbers are also a way for us to pin down meaning. I was born on this date and not another. There a

Waking is a miraculous threshold of personal reacquaintance, a liminal moment of subtle transition between dark and light, subconscious and conscious worlds, a luminous passage in which we experience dissipation and formation, appearance and disappearance, coalescing simultaneously, the nocturnal happenings of the subterranean mind submerged again and again as an all too familiar self surfaces from out the deep each new day with its relentless agency, authority, and awareness

The stories that structure our lives are the inheritance of a history that does not belong to us. From the time we are very little we are engulfed in a language that is not our own, selected on our behalf, and imparted to us without our say in the matter. Days, months, and years go by and before we know it our heads contain a collection of letters, nouns, verbs, sentences, stories, and a nascent narrative, expressive as well as constitutive of our experience of the world. Thi