Black History Month 2023
On what it means to be a “good” person, grappling with our place in society, and ancestor work through the lens of Black History Month.
philosophy
The Good Friendship Compass
I took a class last semester called “The Good Life” and for my final assignment I created a “Good Friendship Compass” which was supposed to create a path toward being a good friend according to the four spheres of activity, Dharma, Moksha, Artha, and Kama. Classical Indian philosophy might be a bit of a niche topic, but this has always been an unconventional blog. Enjoy.
Feeling Good
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
I have a very intense fear of heights. But the thing about having a fear of heights, is that having a fear of heights is not about the fear of being up high, it is about the fear of falling. It is the fear of having nothing to catch you. I have dreams of being in the body of a bird, of flying, and in those dreams I have no fear of falling because I will catch myself on my wings. It is the plummeting crash that I fear. The view from up high is amazing, the fear is the potential to fall.
Hope
It’s funny how life can surprise you. There are so many things that have happened in my life that I regret. Alongside them are things that I do not regret, though some people might think I should. And as I think about where I am going, what paths I am taking forward, I sometimes wonder […]
End of Translation
From Jacques Lezra’s End of Translation: “The question of how humanists make the case for the value of their disciplines to others […] is a matter, it is understood, of translation.” Translation and politics are intimately linked in the view of this paper and he notes that translation is a “master term” when discussing the understanding […]