December 2024

Notes From Underground

Sunday December 01, 2024

He likes to watch the

film No Country For Old Men

every so often. 
It serves as a reminder

that nothing is permanent. 

Monday December 02, 2024

Each time he has tried

to completely disappear,

he has been denied.

This form of existential

refinement keeps him focused.

Tuesday December 03, 2024

Great energy and

the responsibility

for its care is shared.

Sometimes it takes two lifetimes

to bring this to fruition. 

Wednesday December 04, 2024

The last end begins

with gin and tonic on the

first day of the week. 

This has been going on since

the death of the patriarch. 

Thursday December 05, 2024 

Without his business 

analyst, he would only

have requirements.  

He could still produce the work, 

but it would be second rate.

Friday December 06, 2024 

With each passing day 

the vows he made years ago 

manifest themselves.  

Poverty, obscurity, 

distance, and silence remain.  

Saturday December 07, 2024

as he ascended

the holy mountain the queen

stopped him in his tracks. 

"this place is not meant for thee"

she revealingly disclosed. 

Sunday December 08, 2024 

the upper-case gets 

replaced just in case he stops 

disclosing his words.  

he understands this to be 

a sign of humility. 

Monday December 09, 2024 

he has twenty-two 

days left to determine his 

deliberations. 

many will be deleted 

with an extreme prejudice. 

Tuesday December 10, 2024 

they're not the only 

ones rightly rejected in 

the recent retreat. 

this is the reality 

that is now his new normal.  

Wednesday December 11, 2024 

using the notepad 

is an instance of markdown 

minimalism. 

the distinction between form 

and content is redundant.  

Thursday December 12, 2024

every so often

he would look up from his booth

as they floated by. 

he sang young's unknown legend 

lyrics underneath his breath. 

Friday December 13, 2024 

fashion is fickle

but style is formative

(it is from within).

the only way to remain 

in vogue is to trust your heart. 

Saturday December 14, 2024

when she left the snow

and travelled to mexico

she did not look back.

her lover was there and she

longed for their timeless embrace.

Sunday December 15, 2024

while lecturing on

the compass of zen he threw

the book thru the door. 

at that moment his students

were able to find their way. 

Monday December 16, 2024 

it takes compassion 

to plunge into the weak weeds 

of relative truth. 

this is the only way to  

stop a baby from crying.  

Tuesday December 17, 2024 

he gets nostalgic

watching the minnesota

vikings skol themselves.

the great bud grant will always

be a paternal figure.

Wednesday December 18, 2024

every poem is 

inspired by the shire's

religion of love.

his odyssean journey

is meaningless without it.

Thursday December 19, 2024

the presidential

cemetery was crowded

and covered with rain.

he did not foresee that it

would be his destination.

Friday December 20, 2024 

“what's your name? who's your 

daddy? is he rich like me?” 

(he crooned silently). 

he found himself singing while

the broken wings were healing. 

Saturday December 21, 2024 

"i don't believe in

an interventionist god,

but I know you do."

nick cave is a cave dweller

whose gnosis precludes belief.

Sunday December 22, 2024 

he does not know what 

they are whispering to each 

other on the train.  

he does know that it sounds so 

intimately seductive.

Monday December 23, 2024

unfortunately

he will not meet his deadline

scheduled for today. 

he hopes this is a subtle

harbinger of things to come. 

Tuesday December 24, 2024 

his heart understands: 

chopin's twentieth nocturne  

speaks when words cannot. 

there is a wisdom at work 

here that writing knows not of.  

Wednesday December 25, 2024 

he came full circle 

as he circled the building 

that started it all. 

the red and white token found 

there opens an ancient door. 

Thursday December 26, 2024 

the freudian claimed 

self sabotage was the cause 

of his history. 

his response was to sing a 

jason and the scorchers song.

Friday December 27, 2024 

he has clearly seen

an acausal connecting 

principle at work.

it has been manifesting

itself from the beginning. 

Saturday December 28, 2024 

the preparations

have been put in place for the  

latest exodus. 

his being is becoming

a literal homecoming.  

Sunday December 29, 2024

wittgenstein almost 

got it right when he wrote his

grammatical words. 

the areopagite should

replace st. augustine's place. 

Monday December 30, 2024 

he found the account 

counterproductive, but at  

least he retried it.  

going forward the waka 

will be his means and his end.  

Tuesday December 31, 2024

sickness seems to have

impeccably malicious

timing at year's end. 

it is as if this latest

move is being prevented. 

November 2024

Santana | Moonflower

Friday November 01, 2024 

“Just how wet is the 

water?” he asked as he swam 

into her image.

He felt femininity, 

rather than androgyny.  

Saturday November 02, 2024 

He does not know for 

certain whether the earth is 

either flat or round. 

At least Come Around Sundown 

comforts his agnosia. 

Sunday November 03, 2024 

Preconceptual 

awareness is shared among 

those who spare nothing. 

As for the rest, they are just  

too scared to stare into it. 

Monday November 04, 2024 

All of the madmen  

are silenced, they are liars 

in word and in deed. 

Their heads are shaved bald, their beards 

are cut off, they are finished. 

Tuesday November 05, 2024 

“Well, you know, that’s just  

like, ah, your opinion, man” 

(so opines The Dude). 

This is the most profound thing 

ever uttered while bowling.

Wednesday November 06, 2024 

He always uses

his methodological 

nominalism. 

It's the only way for him

to get the best of all worlds. 

Thursday November 07, 2024 

Oracle Apex 

uses Task, but he changed it 

to Conversation. 

At least the French translators 

are happy with the new word. 

Friday November 08, 2024 

The planners weary 

themselves over what the flames 

instantly consume.   

This makes sense since they are both

of the world and within it. 

Saturday November 09, 2024 

Mathematical 

intuitionism is 

as fresh as the grass. 

Who knew that Brouwer’s genius 

extended to sod farming?! 

Sunday November 10, 2024

Is he understood

when it comes to saving the

same appearances?

The pragmatic principle

of tolerance never fails.

Monday November 11, 2024 

Because instruction 

is wanting, he silently 

sits on profound ground. 

He started in a zendo, 

and ended in an endo.

Tuesday November 12, 2024

Each scientific

theory has within it seeds 

of its own demise.  

The history of science 

should make us more skeptical.

Wednesday November 13, 2024

All of the wicked 

maliciousness is silenced 

by his indifference. 

Knowing the beginning makes 

all the difference in the world. 

Thursday November 14, 2024

He’s lived on his own 

(but never really alone) 

for many years now.  

He cannot conceive being 

separated from himself.   

Friday November 15, 2024

The ineffable

essence is the condition

for the energy.

Without it we would not have

the mission of the desert.

Saturday November 16, 2024

Doctrine at its best 

is nothing but biblical  

marginalia.  

This is why the orthodox 

are so unsystematic. 

Sunday November 17, 2024 

When he said “I love 

God very much” he meant he 

loves that God is love.  

He only uses words this 

way in rare circumstances.

Monday November 18, 2024

Because it is so 

various, he will err on 

the side of caution. 

He won't devote any more

of his precious time to it. 

Tuesday November 19, 2024

He forgot how good 

lemon NeoCitren is

for coughs due to colds.

This matters because when he

gets sick, he's down for the count. 

Wednesday November 20, 2024 

The work is scheduled 

to be delivered one week 

and two days from now.  

It started on twenty-four 

and will end on twenty-nine.  

Thursday November 21, 2024 

His written words have 

lost their text appeal because 

of what is greater.  

“We are three and we are thee” 

is all that needs to be said. 

Friday November 22, 2024 

It has been almost 

a year since being impressed 

by his impressions. 

He was not surprised to find  

them during the interview. 

Saturday November 23, 2024

Holy Mount Althos 

appears on his horizon 

after many years. 

Three Hermits tells him all he 

needs to know about this place.  

Sunday November 24, 2024

But his face remains 

unknown to him, he has not  

met him, nor knows him.  

Even though he is, he is 

beyond all ontology. 

Monday November 25, 2024

They say that they run

away whenever someone

approaches their cell.

They have enough time and space

to create another one. 

Tuesday November 26, 2024

The desert is more

than just an old metaphor

for a new poem.

The greatest men still live there,

those who are no longer "I". 

Wednesday November 27, 2024

When he searched the old 

ordinances he received 

wisdom in the night. 

This is why insomnia 

has nocturnal benefits.  

Thursday November 28, 2024

The traditional
Bosnian medications

resonate with him.

The weirder they are the more

appealing they then become. 

Friday November 29, 2024

Inch by inch he crawls 

toward his goal of unique

unification. 

Quine once said that you cannot

have mind-states without brain-states. 

Saturday November 30, 2024

“At this pace, I don't

know how much longer I can

continue what's planned."

Once this panic passes by, 

he will resume his practice.  

October 2024

The Prodigal Son

Tuesday October 01, 2024 

It is time for him 

to return from his aimless 

worldly wanderings.  

There is a room with a door 

that can be shut behind him.  

Wednesday October 02, 2024 

He is running out 

of money and running out 

of time to make it. 

This does not concern him since 

this is according to plan. 

Thursday October 03, 2024 

No matter what they 

say and what they do he must

remain in his lane.  

This is not negotiable,

it is the way the world ends. 

Friday October 04, 2024 

Since two thousand and 

nine he has been fine living 

outside the system.  

He was once in it, but he 

was never a part of it.  

Saturday October 05, 2024 

It has taken years 

for him to hang his private 

world on public walls.  

Time stopped to show his still life 

for those who pay attention.  

Sunday October 06, 2024 

Romance is a myth 

of modernity forced fed 

to the Western world.  

With the turn to the subject, 

Saint Valentine became mute. 

Monday October 07, 2024 

There is a difference 

between talking to someone 

and speaking with them.  

The distinguishing factor 

is always within the eyes. 

Tuesday October 08, 2024 

The guttural sound 

streaming through the showering 

rain is heard again.  

He cannot decipher it,

despite aural fixation.  

Wednesday October 09, 2024 

In just under three 

months the conditions under 

which he lives will change. 

Virtual silence begins 

in an anonymous room.  

Thursday October 10, 2024 

The nameless presence 

indicates that he must now

take on something new. 

He does not know what it is, 

but he feels it in his bone. 

Friday October 11, 2024 

What he hears outside 

his closed door is telling him 

to leave it behind.  

This could not come soon enough 

given the sounds of the times.  

Saturday October 12, 2024 

Usually it is 

not the first thing that he does 

after he wakes up.  

In other words: these words are

the exception to the rule. 

Sunday October 13, 2024 

Every September 

years ago he would spend two 

nights at Lovesick Lake.  

He had the sickness back then

(it was bad and that ain't good). 

Monday October 14, 2024 

He took it as a  

chance to indirectly feed 

the relative poor. 

Even food can sometimes be 

like Glenn Gould’s battleship grey. 

Tuesday October 15, 2024 

Just how long will he 

have to continue working 

in this wounded way?  

Cold comfort: one becomes strong 

at all the broken places.  

Wednesday October 16, 2024

"Congregations make

you crazy, you only get

better on your own."

This quote from Sting is what a

sedevacantist would say. 

Thursday October 17, 2024 

His own wisdom is 

a shadow within a dream 

dreamt by someone else.

And given his history,  

he's probably a wise guy.

Friday October 18, 2024 

The last time he was 

at the Oxley he received 

disappointing news.  

It turned out for the best, but 

at the time it was the worst.  

Saturday October 19, 2024 

"Will it be two out
of three for thee?" he asks as

distance disappears. 

The investment he has made 

makes the answer obvious.  

Sunday October 20, 2024 

Individual 

practices give all our words

their sense and nonsense. 

If language is the house of  

being, then speaking is life.

Monday October 21, 2024

Is it better to 

be thoroughly insulted

than sincerely praised?

If you are an empty shell,

then better does not matter. 

Tuesday October 22, 2024 

He enjoyed reading 

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess 

as a young player.  

For those in the know, this is 

the reason he loves Iceland.  

Wednesday October 23, 2024 

Psychological 

issues are the deciding 

factor at this stage. 

Ability is beside

the point, despite its amount.

Thursday October 24, 2024 

They said that he was 

an Achilles but without 

an Achilles heel.  

He said that nothing is as  

healing as the human touch. 

Friday October 25, 2024 

At least with the old 

schedule he gets to keep his 

enemies closer.  

They can look and maybe touch,  

but beyond that not too much.  

Saturday October 26, 2024 

The tiny town of 

Tiny, Ontario was 

his destination.  

Georgian Bay, Towering Sky 

manifested in real time.  

Sunday October 27, 2024 

In the dead of night 

he was greeted by a kind 

and gentle canine.  

They say their breed is the most 

intelligent of them all.  

Monday October 28, 2024 

He tries to be a 

responsible witness to 

his own time and place. 

Mordecai Richler taught him 

how to do this in person.  

Tuesday October 29, 2024 

It is still lovely 

to make a reservation 

for a rendezvous. 

The elitist aesthetic 

here does not go unnoticed.

Wednesday October 30, 2024 

The bell will toll soon 

enough for him now as he 

helps to relocate.  

Starting at the top will be 

like ending at the bottom.  

Thursday October 31, 2024

Part of what they need

to do together is to

conserve their secrets. 

They are far too precious not

to be whispered between them. 

September 2024

Sancti Dionysii Areopagitae

Sunday September 01, 2024 

Years ago he asked 

“What is the divine darkness?” 

while reading the book. 

After spending forty years 

in the desert, he answers.  

Monday September 02, 2024 

The mysteries lie 

in the brilliant darkness of 

a hidden silence. 

This truth remains a lie for

the uninitiated.

Tuesday September 03, 2024 

Praise the transcending 

one in a transcending way 

by denying all. 

This includes the very thing 

that is the cause of the praise.  

Wednesday September 04, 2024 

The looks that shook him 

point out that the silent word 

mutes the written words.  

Interesting: the Dumb Ox 

became dumb as a result. 

Thursday September 05, 2024 

“That the supreme cause 

of perceptible things is 

not perceptible.” 

This is what he says when forced 

to gesticulate with words.  

Friday September 06, 2024 

There is no speaking 

of it, nor naming of it,  

nor knowledge of it. 

It is beyond assertion, 

and is beyond denial.  

Saturday September 07, 2024 

The smoke and mirrors 

of romantic nostalgia 

got the best of him.  

That said, it is still deeply 

moving to be moved so deep.  

Sunday September 08, 2024 

When he says it would 

be good for him, he really 

is crying for help.  

He was not meant to carry  

that weight for such a long time. 

Monday September 09, 2024 

His retirement 

was advertised as early 

for the sake of time. 

It was also part of his 

surly exit strategy.  

Tuesday September 10, 2024 

The text is open 

for everyone to read it

in the OED. 

Digitizing the English 

language is worth supporting.  

Wednesday September 11, 2024 

If he knew that he 

had to localize labels, 

he would have left it.  

The gig is turning into 

too much for way too little.  

Thursday September 12, 2024 

He found out he is  

still in consideration 

for what is Open.  

Text has always been his bread, 

his butter, and his balance.  

Friday September 13, 2024

Mystic scripture is

the fundamentalistic

grammar of the faith.

Using it leads one beyond

the unknowing and the light.

Saturday September 14, 2024 

At least he can stay 

until one month before the 

beginning of May.  

Maybe this may be the start 

of the end of fatherhood.

Sunday September 15, 2024 

Pious foundations, 

even those made orally, 

are reduced to words.  

Such writings are preserved in 

the archives of the authors. 

Monday September 16, 2024 

Once he wrote the words 

“providence is evidence” 

he had to use them.  

Five and seven syllable  

lines are what he requires.   

Tuesday September 17, 2024 

All he cares about 

are Trinitarian and 

Marian moments.  

They constitute his very 

own summa of the Summa. 

Wednesday September 18, 2024 

The celestial 

hierarchical structure 

is ineffable.  

So much so that it permits 

his recapitulations.

Thursday September 19, 2024 

He would rather gift 

his own than make timely loan 

payments to a bank.  

They have all the funds they need 

to last billions of lifetimes.  

Friday September 20, 2024 

All is quiet on 

the Eastern front, and this is 

best for his being. 

The showing of their Eastern 

front is not for his seeing.  

Saturday September 21, 2024 

Every memory 

comes from the bottom of his

replicated heart. 

The blade is sharp, and it runs 

deeper than ever before.  

Sunday September 22, 2024 

Generational 

replacement humiliates 

the meek and mild. 

It takes grace to see this as 

an earthly inheritance. 

Monday September 23, 2024 

It would be unfair 

to impose his form of life 

on someone else now.  

What was once a bold ideal 

has now become the new real. 

Tuesday September 24, 2024 

It took fifty-five 

minutes from start to finish 

to diminish him.  

It is no longer him who 

lives through all the mysteries.  

Wednesday September 25, 2024 

Impostor syndrome 

rears its own fraudulent head 

every so often. 

He responds by regarding 

the self as an illusion. 

Thursday September 26, 2024 

Innocuous dreams 

have a way of reminding 

him to remain true.  

He must refrain from acting 

on false counterfactuals.  

Friday September 27, 2024 

After he threw in 

the transcendental towel, 

many became one. 

Once transfiguration took

place, he got a piece of peace. 

Saturday September 28, 2024 

After many years 

the Catena Aurea 

replaces the rest.  

The reason why this is so 

remains one of his secrets.  

Sunday September 29, 2024 

“Hey, I know that guy” 

was written after years of 

disordered silence. 

What was written back is a  

variation on a theme.  

 

Monday September 30, 2024 

His thoughts and his prayers 

are for the one who lives and 

loves in the shire.  

It has a noble spire

marking his retirement. 

August 2024

The Cross

Thursday August 01, 2024

To quietly walk

to the cross by the shire,

to stop, and to pray.

Norman Davies rightly calls

precious Poland "God's Playground."

Friday August 02, 2024 

He looked at himself 

in the mirror and knew he 

became what he is.  

The poetry means nothing 

without private sacrifice.

Saturday August 03, 2024 

The Thesis does not 

have an anti-thesis in 

this ontic instance. 

The exception here is clear: 

ontological silence.  

Sunday August 04, 2024 

The Rosary is 

The Roman Breviary for 

those that are like him.  

These unprecedented times  

mean unprecedented means.  

Monday August 05, 2024 

The two common names 

continue to signify 

in uncommon ways.  

Worldly distraction attempts 

to prevent its reception.  

Tuesday August 06, 2024 

There are two summas 

that sum up everything he 

needs to know for now.  

As a reader he longs to  

end the way the writer did.  

Wednesday August 07, 2024 

The faster one fasts 

the faster’s fast, the worse the 

fast of fasting is.  

If it is only about  

health, then you’re wasting your time.

Thursday August 08, 2024

Catholicism
permits praying to the saint
you are studying. 
All of the Aristotle 

he needs is in Aquinas.

Friday August 09, 2024 

The one thing that he 

does three times a day is what 

he was born to do. 

He does not do anything 

better, nor will he ever. 

Saturday August 10, 2024 

Who can deny that 

modernity has been a 

complete disaster? 

"Heresy of heresies"

is one way to describe it. 

Sunday August 11, 2024 

Not throwing your pearls 

toward swine is required 

now more than ever. 

The most precious things must still 

be willed into secrecy.  

Monday August 12, 2024 

Someone recently 

said “Everyone is falling  

apart” (so it seems).  

You do not argue with death, 

you only prepare for it.  

Tuesday August 13, 2024 

Her wallpaper brings

everything inside of him

back to life again.  

It does not take very much  

to spark his burning embers. 

Wednesday August 14, 2024

His mother thinks she

is so very beautiful 

(she saw her picture). 

From one beautiful woman
to another: "I see her."

Thursday August 15, 2024

If he arises

early enough, completing

it will be easy. 

This will allow him to see

the bark on the garden's tree.

Friday August 16, 2024 

He was sadly told 

he was too old to become 

a Carthusian.  

Thankfully, he has found his 

own way to sigh in silence. 

Saturday August 17, 2024

Saying No to NO 

is getting easier now  

that things are so bad.  

They are not even hiding 

in plain sight (as they once did). 

Sunday August 18, 2024 

He was told to keep 

his books just in case the world  

suddenly turns off.  

Not a problem: he has read

enough to last a lifetime. 

Monday August 19, 2024 

It takes one hour 

to drive there, and one hour 

to drive back again. 

Two hours in thick traffic 

is quite a small price to pay.  

Tuesday August 20, 2024 

His day consists in 

reading, writing, and praying,  

from dawn until dusk. 

This is the main reason why 

he lives the way that he does. 

Wednesday August 21, 2024 

There was a dragon 

that lived there during the time 

that he worked with them.  

It left its mark on his head, 

but did not enter his heart. 

Thursday August 22, 2024 

What would be the point 

of having them continue 

to occupy space? 

His love of the nostalgic 

can get the better of him.  

Friday August 23, 2024 

That the world will shut 

off and turn on again is 

inevitable.  

For him the greatest reset 

would be to leave it alone.  

Saturday August 24, 2024 

His very early 

anarchism prepared him 

for totalism.  

In the end this is nothing 

but traditional being.  

Sunday August 25, 2024 

The outcome will not 

have a direct influence 

on his life and times.  

This is why he remains so 

colossally indifferent. 

Monday August 26, 2024 

"Happy Birthday E🌸"

(says he so silently far

away, yet so near).  

There are many if any  

ways to celebrate each year.

Tuesday August 27, 2024 

He wonders whether 

systematizing has been 

counterproductive.  

It could be interpreted 

as making up for lost time.  

Wednesday August 28, 2024 

“Unless the grounding 

ground grounds you to the grounded 

ground, you are groundless.” 

Language truly is the house 

of being and becoming.  

Thursday August 29, 2024 

It only took six 

quick months for the reluctant 

wanderlust to move.

At least he lived in style 

before crossing the Nile.  

Friday August 30, 2024 

He was once love sick 

at the lake that bears its name 

(the picture proves it). 

A copy of it remains 

in the room that fans the flame.

Saturday August 31, 2024 

When the fool says in 

his heart “There is no God” what 

is the foolishness? 

It consists in thinking that 

God can be predicated. 

July 2024

Aristotle

Monday July 01, 2024 

Three months come and gone, 

causing the unravelling  

of the sleepless cord. 

This is well and this is good, 

it is mending as it should. 

Tuesday July 02, 2024 

His reaction to 

the continued vitriol 

is love and kindness. 

He does this in his fashion, 

with neither flare nor fanfare. 

Wednesday July 03, 2024 

End of life issues 

appear on the horizon 

of his consciousness.  

All of the right decisions 

need to be carefully made.  

Thursday July 04, 2024 

Is the chemical 

muse an exegetical

ruse (as they so say)? 

Will the man on the hill be 

a primary source for him?

Friday July 05, 2024 

The grammar is muse 

enough for him at this late 

stage of his journey.  

Many if any uses 

of language have come and gone.  

Saturday June 06, 2024 

The latest reading 

reduced his routine down to 

the bare essentials.  

And even this is still in 

the process of renewal.  

Sunday June 07, 2024 

“Go with what you know” 

(so said the gnostic to the  

ecclesiastic).  

He knows that the beginning 

is not homogenous.  

Monday June 08, 2024 

He does not despise 

it, but he has revised his 

recommendation.  

When he shares his opinions 

on the matter, he remains. 

Tuesday July 09, 2024 

All that is needed 

at this point is regular 

communication. 

It does not require much, 

but it must be consistent.  

Wednesday July 10, 2024 

He's listening to 

"Long As You Know You're Living 

Yours" with great delight. 

This is a celebration 

of his musical genius. 

Thursday July 11, 2024 

It’s necessary 

at this stage to request some 

radiology.  

And the ultrasound was done 

just to make sure all is well. 

Friday July 12, 2024 

Saying anything 

about high fidelity 

is his grosse pointe blank.  

He draws a blank trying to  

think the last three in a row. 

Saturday July 13, 2024 

The circumstances 

are becoming so very 

complicated now.  

This is an observation,  

not a curt condemnation.  

Sunday July 14, 2024 

The rearrangement 

of the apophatic texts 

was deliberate.

Carthusian chants were heard 

throughout this private process. 

Monday July 15, 2024 

Every so often 

the words sede vacante 

appear before him.  

They shall always be a part 

of his traditional life.  

Tuesday July 16, 2024 

It is easier 

to be in the world but not 

a part of it now.  

Living hermitically makes

this a possibility.

Wednesday July 17, 2024 

There is only one 

that can conceivably be 

what he thinks he needs. 

It has taken many years 

for him to renew the source.  

Thursday July 18, 2024 

More is demanded 

of his time now that the end 

has announced itself. 

This is a stage on life’s way 

that’s an existential threat.  

Friday July 19, 2024 

Technical writing 

is the last thing he wants them 

to worry about.  

The key to their working peace 

is to treat this piece with care.  

Saturday July 20, 2024 

He is recalling 

all of the old tips and tricks 

as he makes his frames.  

Nostalgia appears again 

in the form of a format.  

Sunday July 21, 2024 

The old Mystical 

Theology is the knew 

hermeneutic key. 

His methodological 

nominalism turns it.  

Monday July 22, 2024 

He revisits the 

year eighteen seventy-nine 

to be reminded.  

Traditionalism is 

Thomistic Totalism. 

Tuesday July 23, 2024 

The shelf just below 

the weathered J5V will 

be his testament.  

The black and blue volumes have 

stood the test of his timing. 

Wednesday July 24, 2024 

The DRV could 

be the only ordered act, 

excluding the rest. 

Then again, it should really

just take good care of itself. 

Thursday July 25, 2024 

Little did he know 

that the first deposit was 

for three weeks, not two. 

Not questioning the logic 

is a product of the past.  

Friday July 26, 2024 

He does not concern 

himself with maximizing 

his personal wealth.  

He has always taken care 

of him his entire life.  

Saturday July 27, 2024 

He noticed it takes 

three hours and thirty-three 

minutes to drive there.  

It means crossing the border 

and paying all of the tolls.  

Sunday July 28, 2024 

The only response:  

total repudiation  

of Novus Ordo.   

This is a variation  

on a traditional theme. 

Monday July 29, 2024 

Knowing he is still  

read by his bardzo so far 

away comforts him. 

It is indescribable 

since he has no words for it.  

Tuesday July 30, 2024 

Recently a cat 

that looked exactly like dear 

Aszka stared at him.  

The longer he kept his gaze, 

the stronger he wept his ways.  

Wednesday July 31, 2024 

His beard is like Saint 

Maximilian Kolbe's 

before he was killed.

The next best thing to being

like him is looking like him. 

June 2024

Heraclitus

Saturday June 01, 2024 

What has always lurked

underneath all his work is

philosophia.

This is his great achievement, 

one for which he is condemned. 

Sunday June 02, 2024 

A “social union 

of social unions” is not 

the right description.  

A culture of many if  

any cultures is different.  

Monday June 03, 2024 

His newfound escape 

clause appeared at the right time, 

and in the right place.  

He could be annotating 

data in another way. 

Tuesday June 04, 2024 

He does not deserve 

the kindness that was just shown

to him this morning.  

This is proven by the fact  

of his act after the fact. 

Wednesday June 05, 2024 

It used to be that 

you ended on Friday, and 

started on Monday. 

This never happens these days, 

but it did five days ago.

Thursday June 06, 2024 

All that needs to be 

done is an exhaustively 

thorough background check. 

His brush with disorganized

crime just might be his downfall.

Friday June 07, 2024 

His redescription 

of the ontic tradition 

was necessary.  

Representation could then 

be changed to intervention.  

Saturday June 08, 2024 

It is wonderful

how the initial five got 

turned into the three.  

This is as esoteric 

as it is exoteric. 

Sunday June 09, 2024 

The loss of the ring  

brings with it the natural 

cost of transition. 

There is weeping and gnashing  

of teeth, but this too shall pass.  

Monday June 10, 2024 

Sometimes poetry 

can get temporarily 

lost in translation. 

But the heart of the matter 

transcends gesticulation.  

Tuesday June 11, 2024 

Gesticulating  

with many words does not make  

anything clearer.  

Practices gives words their sense, 

their nonsense, and their pretense.  

Wednesday June 12, 2024 

The circumspection 

of his curious concern 

protects him from harm.  

His spirit animal is
the reason for his prudence. 

Thursday June 13, 2024 

He was not upset 

that he had to make one more 

trip to the printers. 

It afforded him the chance  

to get into a routine.  

Friday June 14, 2024 

The only refuge 

from the refuse is to be 

completely unplugged.  

His generation is in 

a position to do this.  

Saturday June 15, 2024 

There is no amount 

of reconciling dreams 

that would change his mind. 

The boundary will continue 

to be boundless as ever.  

Sunday June 16, 2024 

Lateral drifting 

was the exception during 

his time in grad school.  

But now it is a common 

occurence for him each day.  

Monday June 17, 2024 

“The Philosopher” 

was so-called by “The Dumb Ox” 

for a good reason.  

It turns out he was not so 

dumb after all (go figure). 

Tuesday June 18, 2024 

Day in and day out 

he breaths in and he breaths out 

without conscious thought. 

He is a meaning machine, 

trying to make sense of it.  

Wednesday June 19, 2024 

He was the lone B 

in a sea of Js last night 

inside the sky dome.  

He has remained one of them 

since nineteen seventy-five. 

Thursday June 20, 2024 

Unbeknownst to him 

the evening would contain why 

he was a no-show.  

It turned out to be the same

old song and dance anyway. 

Friday June 21, 2024 

It has been three weeks 

since he decided to leave 

it all behind him. 

It was the penultimate 

nine-to-five experience. 

Saturday June 22, 2024 

Today is the way 

that he wants his life to be, 

all things considered.  

It’s only when you are in  

the thick of it that you know.  

Sunday June 23, 2024 

Anthony the Great 

and Anthony the Hermit 

both start and finish.  

The triad that began years

ago is now completed.  

Monday June 24, 2024 

A once bustling 

environment has been turned 

into a backroom.  

He will visit it from time 

to time now that he is in.  

Tuesday June 25, 2024 

The backroom backend 

was initially very 

hard to penetrate.  

All it took to crack the code 

was the correct domain\name.  

Wednesday June 26, 2024 

The isolation 

is so much better than he 

ever imagined. 

It is in the far corner 

of an abandoned building.  

Thursday June 27, 2024 

Forty-five thousand 

was the negotiated 

price he had to pay.  

It is water off a duck’s 

back as far as he’s considered.  

Friday June 28, 2024 

He is standing up 

while sitting down once again, 

with an added day. 

If his deliverables

are released on time, he stays. 

Saturday June 29, 2024 

He is beginning 

to prepare for the final 

stage before it ends.  

Things must be arranged for this 

inevitability. 

Sunday June 30, 2024

It is as if he
now has another person
depending on him.
The number has gone from three

to four so very quickly. 

May 2024

Insomnia

Wednesday May 01, 2024 

It has been one month 

to the day that they infused 

their insomnia.  

The last time was three hundred 

and seventy weeks ago. 

Thursday May 02, 2024 

Now that he is back 

to his old sleeping habits, 

he remains refreshed. 

He will gladly give up his 

nocturnal habitation. 

Friday May 03, 2024 

He received reprieve 

from the corporate collective 

through troubleshooting. 

It does not take very much 

to reassure a person.  

Saturday May 04, 2024 

The last request came 

just prior to him going 

mute for the next week.  

This gives him time to figure 

out what this is all about.  

Sunday May 05, 2024 

Section nine hundred 

and twenty-one mentions it,

and endorses it.  

He does not need official 

confirmation, but it’s nice.  

Monday May 06, 2024 

He took two one way

streets as a dear detour 

to sanctuary.  

The golden pocket watch is

Rumi's timely reminder.

Tuesday May 07, 2024

His is a lost cause

born of habitualized
hallucinations.

And yet, he continues to 

project his projectiles. 

Wednesday May 08, 2024 

Merton wrote about  

being annihilated 

by obedience. 

To “kiss everything good-bye" 

(as he put it) was the means. 

Thursday May 09, 2024 

His approach has been 

to kill them with kindness lest 

they kill him in turn.  

What they take as a weakness 

is the greatest strength of all.  

Friday May 10, 2024 

Now he will always 

be a part of their crucial 

therapeutic work.  

It was very kind of them 

to include him in this way.  

Saturday May 11, 2024

He was asked many

times why he chose to connect

after all these years.

And his answer was the same

each time, despite their caution. 

Sunday May 12, 2024

So, "so let it be"

will be the way that it ends

without saying so?

It would be fitting given

the reason for reaching out. 

Monday May 13, 2024

To start once again

must be like a phobia 

of sorts for his kind. 

No matter how hard he tries

to avoid page one, it's there. 

Tuesday May 14, 2024 

Even voice-overs 

cannot compensate for his 

nine-to-five malaise.  

His present circumstances 

preclude long-term happiness.  

Wednesday May 15, 2024 

He recently found 

out why they got married in 

an old funeral home.  

Out of love for all involved 

this secret remains hidden.  

Thursday May 16, 2024

By agreeing to 

disagree he is able

to maintain the peace.

Common presuppositions

are absent for some reason. 

Friday May 17, 2024 

To have the work he 

did remain unknown to them 

is not the point here. 

Something psychologically 

sinister is going on.  

Saturday May 18, 2024 

New things are coming 

his way now that he is in 

his sixtieth year.  

He does not know what they are, 

but he gladly welcomes them.  

Sunday May 19, 2024 

He is on the verge 

once again, contemplating 

his retirement.  

If there ever was a time 

for new tires, this is it.  

Monday May 20, 2024 

His own inner truth 

and greatness has been "the fist 

of Fate" from the start.

They will never understand

the reason for the silence.

Tuesday May 21, 2024 

His last day arrived 

inconspicuously and 

without incident.  

He was told to remain calm 

and use the early exit.  

Wednesday May 22, 2024 

By the end of June 

he will be fully prepared 

to begin his end.  

His hope is that it will be  

completely independent.  

Thursday May 23, 2024 

He was forced to make 

a life-changing decision 

under deep duress.  

It is the latest instance  

of how he cuts his losses.  

Friday May 24, 2024 

The person who wrote 

the testimonial most 

likely codes for them.  

This is the impression he 

received given the pay scale.  

Saturday May 25, 2024 

He was pleasantly 

led to their night shift, something 

far superior.  

Reaching rock bottom prepared 

him for the light of the moon. 

Sunday May 26, 2024 

Incorporating 

data annotation is 

the future of work.  

This more than fits into his 

selfless anonymity. 

Monday May 27, 2024 

He is interested 

to find out if the hardware 

he uses is his.  

There is a chance it may have 

been completely forgotten. 

Tuesday May 28, 2024 

He sat up in bed 

again in the dead of night 

till the break of dawn.  
He still yearns for these nocturnes

to silently comfort him. 

Wednesday May 29, 2024 

He remembers them 

saying “moment by moment” 

more often than not.  

This is especially true 

during these uncertain days.  

Thursday May 30, 2024 

It is not without 

note that the esoteric 

version reappears.  

It casts a shadow over 

previous commentary. 

Friday May 31, 2024 

The rise and the fall 

of the exoteric rite 

was necessary.  

It was the sine qua non 

of inner truth and greatness.  

April 2024

Feynman's Gravitational Force

Monday April 01, 2024

Given the amount 

he has paid in, zeros should  

be added to it.  

The systematic slaughter

of the middle-class persists. 

Tuesday April 02, 2024 

If an umbrella  

term is needed, then simply 

use Gnosticism.  

Once you visit the city  

of Nag Hammadi, you stay. 

Wednesday April 03, 2024 

He has always been 

able to work a room (like 

he did yesterday). 

But the thrill of doing so 

abandoned him long ago.

Thursday April 04, 2024 

It is a version 

of individuation

via The Black Books. 

The original plan was  

to work in psychiatry.

Friday April 05, 2024 

He chose to reject

that uniquely prestigious

opportunity. 

Rolling solitude is good, 

but stationary is best.  

Saturday April 06, 2024 

If he had to choose 

between gin and wine, gin would  

win all of the time.   

But he knows that being a 

sommelier has its appeal. 

Sunday April 07, 2024 

There is a difference 

between being interested, 

and just being nice. 

The latter usually dawns 

on you in a day or two. 

Monday April 08, 2024 

Little did he know 

five years ago today how 

much his life would change. 

Love is another word for 

simply paying attention.  

Tuesday April 09, 2024 

He wants to hear her 

rivering words whispering 

in his ear again. 

He will never get enough 

of her tender mother tongue. 

Wednesday April 10, 2024 

High tide, low tide, wave 

after wave, the sea hums the 

eternal mantra.  

The ebb, flow, and breath of time: 

the Baltic is its own rhyme.  

Thursday April 11, 2024 

Analgesia,  

analgesia, grant him

analgesia! 

The pain is not the issue, 

it is the feeling of it.  

Friday April 12, 2024 

The ontology 

of No Exit cannot be

easily denied.

Age has a way of forcing 

this nausea upon you. 

Saturday April 13, 2024 

Three finally became

one for him after countless

trials and errors.

At least he is now in the 

know through initiation. 

Sunday April 14, 2024 

Can it be said that 

he is beginning at the 

beginning again? 

Yes, but this beginning is 

the beginning of the end. 

Monday April 15, 2024 

He writes his daily 

poem, he makes his daily 

trade, and that’s his day.  

And the rest is so traversed 

that it won’t be put in verse.  

Tuesday April 16, 2024 

“Some forbidden books 

have been beneficial, but 

most of them have not.” 

Are they classified that way 

for political reasons? 

Wednesday April 17, 2024 

Is it three more days 

and a weekend before he 

officially leaves? 

He has spent the last twenty 

years in less than blissful work.  

Thursday April 18, 2024 

Deciding not to 

disclose his personal churn  

will help him to learn.  

This is part of the process 

of becoming who he is.  

Friday April 19, 2024 

He has been in this  

position before, so he 

knows whereof he feels.  

Personal experience 

must play a decisive role.  

Saturday April 20, 2024 

His dream job is to 

sit and monitor UJ 

all day for hammers. 

“Know what you want, trust your heart, 

and follow your bliss” (he said).  

Sunday April 21, 2024 

The breakfast restaurant 

that replaced Gonoe Sushi 

made him steak and eggs. 

The server delivered what 

turned out to be very rare.  

Monday April 22, 2024 

Were they able to  

get Ry Cooder to sing his 

early eulogy? 

The concert in Kingston is 

the answer to this question. 

Tuesday April 23, 2024 

He needs to sustain 

his courage to be now more 

than ever before. 

The forces that are at work 

transcend his comprehension.  

Wednesday April 24, 2024 

Is self-sabotage 

the only explanation 

for his history? 

A Freudian analyst 

concluded this years ago.  

Thursday April 25, 2024 

Wouldn't it be nice 

for him to become headless 

at work once again? 

He really wants to become 

decoupled, despite the curve.  

Friday April 26, 2024 

He wants to believe 

his projection is causing 

the consternation. 

But his sensitivity 

is telling him otherwise.  

Saturday April 27, 2024 

The sine qua non: 

the Protestant principle 

still must be applied.  

Quietly coming to terms 

with his past requires it.  

Sunday April 28, 2024 

It had been many 

years since he sat on that bench 

in the back hallway. 

His daughter and their partner 

were there to share the moment.  

Monday April 29, 2024 

There’s a distinction 

between representation 

and reality. 

This must be overcome by 

intervening in the world.  

Tuesday April 30, 2024 

Is it time to shut 

down his drudgery divine 

once and forever? 

It has been going on since 

two thousand and eleven.  

March 2024

Have Brain | Will Travel

Friday March 01, 2024 

He wonders whether 

this is the penultimate 

move (at least for him). 

Traveling help is at hand 

for this immovable man.

Saturday March 02, 2024 

Two more days to go 

before he’s out with the old 

and in with the new.  

He took care of the lion’s 

share yesterday afternoon.

Sunday March 03, 2024 

It took him three days 

of necessary evils 

before there was peace. 

Life is short, time is precious, 

and this was a reminder.  

Monday March 04, 2024 

It is a different  

kind of energy that is  

working in the world.  

Only time will tell whether  

it will make everyone worse.  

Tuesday March 05, 2024 

The ...rivER... never 

stopped flowing, despite the dry 

distance in between. 

This is one of the very 

few things that brings happiness. 

Wednesday March 06, 2024 

An old injury 

prevents him from peacefully 

sleeping through the night.
Insomnia has long been
the unintended result. 

Thursday March 07, 2024 

He is aware of  

the passive aggressive vibe 

that thrives in that tribe. 

Thankfully, he is not the 

only one who notices.

Friday March 08, 2024

The best he can do

is to live in the shire

of his memories. 

Living alone is a small

price to pay for this shrift gift. 

Saturday March 09, 2024 

The secret koan 

“Just how wet is the water?” 

refreshes him still.  

When the pouring rain became 

his raincoat, he stopped thinking.  

Sunday March 10, 2024

Watching Alien

once again reminds him why

he loves it so much. 

Proving it is the perfect

film is unnecessary. 

Monday March 11, 2024 

From Platonism 

to Positivism, then 

to Pragmatism.  

Rereading Richard RORtY 

is more than just nostalgic.

Tuesday March 12, 2024 

He was asked to walk 

with them the next time they were 

down by the lake shore.  

It is better to leave old 

in-laws well enough alone. 

Wednesday March 13, 2024

He might never get

to say these three lovely words:

"You play beautifully."

Piano keys, unicorns,

and his whiskey neat remain. 

Thursday March 14, 2024 

As he embodies 

his memories of green, he 

rises to his knees.  

This is respect, and this is 

honesty, and this is life.  

Friday March 15, 2024 

His desire to 

retire in the shire 

is primordial.  

He knows he does not deserve 

to kiss this domestic bliss. 

Saturday March 16, 2024 

He did not plan to 

live as a solitary  

man in this manner.  

But like Padmasambhava 

he too lived through the system.  

Sunday March 17, 2024 

Her shadow-eye casts 

an alluring shadow on

his caring caress.

No one wears it better than 

his fighter for happiness.  

Monday March 18, 2024

The last thing he wants

to do is interfere with

her intimacy:

"If you want to work the room

alone, I will disappear..."

Tuesday March 19, 2024

He knows what he loves,

and he loves what he knows, and

he wants what he loves.

This is his problem, as well

as his only solution. 

Wednesday March 20, 2024 

Not many can claim 

this as the genesis of  

their evolution: 

Feynman’s gravitational 

force attracted both of them. 

Thursday March 21, 2024 

The Will to Power 

is prolegomena to 

Heidegger’s Nietzsche.  

All this too must be read through 

before considering Faye. 

Friday March 22, 2024 

The very early 

psychiatric studies are 

pathological. 

The occult phenomena 

described is more than “so-called.” 

Saturday March 23, 2024 

Despite all, he will  

love for all eternity 

...and then one day more. 

Before the end of the first 

1000 years, tears will mend. 

Sunday March 24, 2024 

She is the flower

for his rain, and the only  

tunnel for his train.  

She’s the glove and he’s the hand, 

he’s the plough and she’s the land.

Monday March 25, 2024 

He still remembers

dEckaRd and RachEl, sUShi, 

and RAAHEDYTAH. 

There are so many secret 

mementos ... bardzo karmel. 

Tuesday March 26, 2024

If circumstances 

were to change there, he would be 

planning his flight times. 

But timing is everything, 

and his chances are très slim.

Wednesday March 27, 2024 

His kids got a taste 

of that old-time religion, 

to their sad chagrin.  

Funerals are for respectful 

mourning and remembering.

Thursday March 28, 2024 

It has always been 

“all Bill Evans all the time” 

(to quote Norah Jones).  

It starts with Vince Guaraldi, 

and ends with Waltz for Debbie. 

Friday March 29, 2024 

He faithfully prays 

his beloved rosary 

to Matka Boska.  

She knew that he needed the
blessing from Jasna Góra.

Saturday March 30, 2024

He can’t stop singing 

“please come talk to me” to his 

very secret world.  

He’s hoping against hope to 

have it like it used to be. 

Sunday March 31, 2024

Communicating

poetically is very

sensitive of him.

If he's read perceptively,

then he could not ask for more.

February 2024

Birth of the Cool

Thursday February 01, 2024 

Its significance 

is no more and no less than

the birth of their cool. 

The Miles Davis nonet 

is live without a net now. 

Friday February 02, 2024 

He is still looking 

for a way to recover 

his bread and butter.  

The irony is that he  

is being used by users.  

Saturday February 03, 2024 

It is probably 

too much too late at this late 

stage of his story.  

What does it mean to say this 

when there are no accidents? 

Sunday February 04, 2024 

It is comforting 

for him to know he is read 

with quiet reverence.  

To be received in this way 

is much more than he deserves.  

Monday February 05, 2024

Missing the deadline

just might mean that he is no

longer required.

Could risk intelligence end

up becoming his way out?

Tuesday February 06, 2024 

He’s been carrying 

a torch for over forty 

years of his life now.  

He did not let the light fade

to black during their silence. 

Wednesday February 07, 2024 

Hopeless romantics 

are simply in love with love 

(hence their fair despair). 

True romantic troubadours

are not so solipsistic.  

Thursday February 08, 2024 

The Ignatian claim 

that God is in all things 

is doctrine enough. 

Paying attention is his  

Summa Theologica. 

Friday February 09, 2024 

He walks the pagan 

streams as the great-great-being 

still watches over. 

The master from Germany  

makes his journey easier.  

Saturday February 10, 2024 

It is best for him

to refrain and then remain

within his own lane. 

Despite his love and his care, 

he should just stare and repair. 

Sunday February 11, 2024 

Soon he will be gone 

from the corner of the world 

he has called his home.  

Finally an exception to 

the ten times in ten years rule! 

Monday February 12, 2024 

He has been so kind 

about the situation 

(they have no idea).  

So it should not surprise them 

that he has no more to say.  

Tuesday February 13, 2024 

He could clearly tell 

from their unusual tone 

that all was not well.  

This may be the beginning 

of his end with all of them.  

Wednesday February 14, 2024 

Climbing that yonder 

hillside alone has always  

been his lot in life.  

He has no right to complain 

about it being unfair.  

Thursday February 15, 2024 

The thing that he fears 

the most is interfering 

where they're not wanted. 

He fights this daily battle 

between ration and passion.  

Friday February 16, 2024

The store owner took

what was offered and gave back

nothing in return. 

Professional courtesy

was absent in this instance.

Saturday February 17, 2024 

Nineteen sixty-six 

was the year philosophy 

died with dignity.  

The Der Spiegel interview 

is its obituary.  

Sunday February 18, 2024 

Meeting an old friend  

and then a brand new one too 

made both of their days. 

He was happy that they make 

such a beautiful couple.  

Monday February 19, 2024 

He remembers when 

they would sit, and he would sing

“...no woman, no cry...” 

Why must there be this sorrow 

when tomorrow brings one love? 

Tuesday February 20, 2024 

His original 

plan was to retreat today 

away from that world.  

But then his second and third 

thoughts rearranged his schedule. 

Wednesday February 21, 2024 

Unlike BBB

before him, he by-passes
the correlation. 
His methodological
nominalism remains. 

Thursday February 22, 2024 

And then suddenly 

he wonders whether his words 

are still being read. 

They are all he has left now 

that he has been left for dead. 

Friday February 23, 2024 

And then suddenly 

his favorite Polish word lives  

within his inbox. 

Bardzo’s hidden history 

will never be narrated.  

Saturday February 24, 2024 

And then suddenly 

after a prolonged silence

they are making words.  

His grandfather’s pocket watch 

stops working in Rumi’s field.  

Sunday February 25, 2024 

He received the bite 

as an initiation 

rite into The D’arge. 

They talked well into the night 

with his playful approval.  

Monday February 26, 2024 

The longevity

of their joy unspeakable, 

so full of stories! 

Who knew linearity 

would not be conspicuous? 

Tuesday February 27, 2024 

When he was informed 

that it was already filled, 

the next one appeared. 

It might turn out like the rest, 

but that’s simply not the point.  

Wednesday February 28, 2024 

This is involving 

more chaotic disruption 

than he expected. 

It’s at the point where income 

is now a minor concern.  

Thursday February 29, 2024 

He reached out to him 

to ask him to reach out to 

their old wrecking crew.  

He once gave them wise guidance, 

so now it’s their turn to give.