Archive for the 'Introspeculation' Category



Such Great Heights

I’ve recently fallen in love with the National Cathedral. Walking up Massachusetts Avenue, past embassies and mosques and the woods of Rock Creek Park, I feel like I’m taking a walk through history. I pass the Naval Observatory, where some swanky event was taking place last night. Turn the corner and the majestic towers and […]

Gateway

I sometimes wish there was a way to manifest the flow of my creativity as a physical object. A tap that I could turn on or off when needed, when convenient.
As of late, I find myself inevitably seeking creative inspiration and finding none. And strangely enough, I have absolutely no excuse for this absence. […]

Solace

It is hard for me to look at the next two months and not be intimidated. It’s as if I’ve been floating above it all, watching myself scurry around, picking up puzzle pieces and frantically find the place for each before arriving at the next.
I’ll find the Calm soon enough, but right now […]

I’ve got a lot of photographs from the last couple days that I’ll be posting. It has been one of my most genuine summer-feeling summers, albeit a busy one.
Like most kids, I had a radio flyer wagon. My brother and I would take turns dragging each other around in it, often daring the […]

Sloth breeding boredom,
I dream of adventures past.
Fuck I am restless.

There’s something that has recently started bothering me: When one so eloquently says “I have to take a crap.“, they aren’t taking anything. It’s actually quite the opposite; they are giving something. Even if one were to treat “crap” as a verb rather than a noun (such the dual syntax of “run”), it would be […]

Battles afar

I just caught an unhealthy bit of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” on television and, surprisingly, the final battle brought up some introspection on the nature of intelligent life. Here we are on our planet waging war after war rather consistently since the inception of civilization - I wonder if elsewhere, in galaxies far, far […]