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  • On Purposive Reading

    Getting a foothold in the universe of blogging, I have discovered that the antithesis of “composing” one’s life, is probably the “composting” of meaning — which occurs through random accumulation, however initially purposive the intellectual pursuit.
    Several concrete examples winked at me as bell weathers of this concept. The first was Slate’s summary of news stories [...]

  • On Balance at Year’s End

    The beauty of the Balance Sheet is in its clean demarcations and sharp clarities. The summarized ledger: the readable picture. Momentarily, we are distracted from the ongoing accounting of profits and loss at the financial-emotional border. Momentarily, we are distracted from the calculations of cash flow that accompany us through the solvencies and insolvencies of [...]

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