To confess or not to confess, that is the question.
 
To confess is to risk everything, to stick my hand in the burning flame to see if it would hurt. It most certainly would, unless somehow the flame does not burn, but bring warmth.
 
Not to confess is to lie cold awake at night, wondering what could have been--- wondering it was better to risk it all for some possible warmth. From that view it seems like to...

Yesterday someone told me that these diary entries/journal/opinion pieces I write are nonsense and do not help me in any way. But since I was also told that the only way to improve writing is to write, I will do it anyway. I have a feeling right now that I can do anything, but that I don’t actually want to do anything. I am this boat; It’s an incredibly capable one too--the deck is glistening clean, the walls are newly...

Interpreting art, finding the meaning behind it, is to ask Art to justify itself. Art does not need to justify itself. Interpretation is to pluck the vivid feathers of Art, leaving its skin and bones exposed to the freezing pall of meaning we force upon it. Art is not to be tamed, not to be cut, not to be filtered, not to be reduced to a simple message. Art is something to be experienced and we are cowards when we...

Yesterday someone told me that these diary entries/journal/opinion pieces I write are nonsense and do not help me in any way. But since I was also told that the only way to improve writing is to write, I will do it anyway. I have a feeling right now that I can do anything, but that I don’t actually want to do anything. I am this boat; It’s an incredibly capable one too--the deck is glistening clean, the walls are newly...

A few nights ago, I went over to my friend’s house to watch the movie Legally Blonde 2. When discussing the animal abuse mentioned in the movie, we came to the conclusion that the world was a large spider web and that the problems in it a sticky white knot--untangle one part, another part gets more tangled. The conversation then took a turn and we started discussing respect. Specially, the respect, or lack thereof, adults have for children. Both of...

A few nights ago, I went over to my friend’s house to watch the movie Legally Blonde 2. When discussing the animal abuse mentioned in the movie, we came to the conclusion that the world was a large spider web and that the problems in it a sticky white knot--untangle one part, another part gets more tangled. The conversation then took a turn and we started discussing respect. Specially, the respect, or lack thereof, adults have for children. Both of...