Loving the wrong person
Loving the wrong person Let our scars fall in love. –Galway Kinnell We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and...
The nurturing power of dysfunctional families
The nurturing power of dysfunctional families Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. –Leo Tolstoy It is important, if you grew up in a dysfunctional family, to take time to reflect on the competitive edge it has given you. People from happy, harmonious homes may feel healthy and...
Interview with Brother Void
TIM HARRIS, OF REAL CHANGE NEWS, INTERVIEWS BROTHER VOID from a cell phone in the Albuquerque, NM rail yard May 13, 2002 No one ever said living in late-capitalist consumer society was going to be easy. Sure, we can get a good toasted bagel whenever we like, but what does it all mean? What is...
The interstate of life
The interstate of life You are free and that is why you are lost. –Franz Kafka On the interstate of life you rarely reach your destination. In rest-stop after rest-stop, you look for signs of God, or happiness, or just reason enough to get back on the road. But is it not right and fitting...
Some reviews…
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DAILY AFFLICTIONS: “Steely words of wisdom.” —BOOKFORUM “Delighfully lean and smart send-up….Great common sense tonic.” —BALTIMORE SUN, Editor’s Choice “A wicked-wise…oddly bracing (and timely) spiritual-philosophical work.” —ELLE “Perversely enlightening.” —AUSTIN CHRONICLE, Katherine Tanney [full text] “I just got the book this weekend and read it from front to back in a...
Existential contest.
Reinterpret the great existential masters! Submit your own reinterpretation. Submissions so far: 41. German imagines Sartre living in Compton: “Hell is other peeps.” 40. C. J. Kershner tells us the following: As a jaded young person who is tired and discontent with the society into which he has been so cruelly thrust, I feel it...
Read the Book…
READ THE BOOK… LIFE The interstate of life FAMILY The nurturing power of dysfunctional families LOVE Loving the wrong person CAREER The tragedy of commitment POLITICS The inner bigot PHILOSOPHY One step from oblivion RELIGION Skeptical mysticism DEATH Embracing your inner corpse ENLIGHTENMENT The agony of being connected to everything in the Universe INDEX (“…the...
DAILY AFFLICTIONS: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
A dark, twisted existential manifesto posing as a book of daily inspiration.
