Potential

The ink drops to the page, ridged blackness like an inverted star its potential swimming within the fluid. I stab it with my finger and drag out its life into a box within which I fill everything that fills me. A lifetime of fear and happiness, love lost and gained, pain and pleasure fills the box like a map with no legend. Others look upon it with trepidation and confusion as I try to align the contours to true north. My divining rod was a thought of wholly perfect potential.... Read More

College Paper Redux

While recently poking through my ancient floppy disks, I found some college papers which were written on a vintage Canon Starwriter 30 electronic typewriter.  Most of the disks are corrupted or unreadable, but mixed in among the Organic Chemistry and Ecology Lab papers were five or six philosophy papers that I could decipher if I corrected the strange formatting.  Some were basic writing assignments such as, “supporting or refuting an argument,” some more in-depth.  The... Read More