I've been wanting to write something about Barry, but it's been an especially hectic few weeks. (Talking to Frank has been a blessed alternative to my own lone processing—thanks, Frank!) Barry was a bit of an oxymoron. He was an incredibly sweet man who could be a royal PITA. He was a genuine, …
RIP Pauline Whitesinger, Navajo elder
Pauline Whitesinger died earlier this month. Grandma Pauline was my hero. A Navajo elder, she lived a traditional life on the Navajo reservation in what is known as Arizona. She lived a hard life--hard by our industrial-world standards, and made harder by the coal mining occupation to which she …
A good fire is based on oxygen
A good fire is based on oxygen; based on, if could be said, the spaces between, the absence. Absence is a funny thing, especially with regards to desire. Everything contains absence, nothing is completely present. So we always desire something we cannot (fully) have. Like the Lacan/Hegel catch-22: …