by Ward | Jan 15, 2025 | Essays, Writing
Further to my proposal language is a result of consumption of psychedelic mushrooms — I can’t imagine why anyone would want to debate such a concept — and that awareness of language is a result of global consciousness — it strikes me an alternative reason for the rise...
by Ward | Dec 2, 2024 | Essays, Writing
Forgiveness of the dead. Forgiveness of the dead. Seeking that which can never be given. Forgiveness for what we did not do, what we did. What the dead did, what they did not do. Forgiveness of the dead is a quaternity of emotions and experience. The quaternity...
by Ward | Nov 26, 2024 | Essays, Writing
paradox as function of both time and place My friend Richard says I love paradox. Part of my process in these thoughts has now been developed by circumstance (which I find delightful). On one of my daily walks I passed a free library.* I always look in every new free...
by Ward | Nov 4, 2024 | Essays, Writing
Erasers Erasers are quite wonderful and also scary when you think about their purpose, which is to remove something as if it was never there. Another formulation: we use the eraser to return the paper to its original state of blankness. Does the eraser precede and...
by Ward | Oct 18, 2024 | Essays, Writing
A central question in both philosophy and the study of human history is the rise of consciousness — how does it happen, when does it happen, is it a discrete event, or a result of accretion over a long period of time. BTW, I do like the idea of accretion of...
