| Name | Description | | Written |
| The Persistence of Memory |
Take me in once, take the impression to heart |
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4/13/25 |
| Let Go |
Stop keeping her locked up |
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2/15/25 |
| Listen |
She really does know best |
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2/14/25 |
| Every Day (You Stole My Heart) |
Since the moment I met you |
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2/4/25 |
| Some Day |
They won't |
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1/31/25 |
| Desperately Seeking Cool |
You're tied to every dream that lies |
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1/28/25 |
| Exquisite |
Some more time spent with a favorite |
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1/22/25 |
| Nightmare |
I return to one of my favorite 'genres' |
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1/18/25 |
| Dreams |
...from who knows where? |
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1/5/25 |
| In or Out About You |
I just have to know you |
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12/2/24 |
| I Remember |
I'll be better when I get home |
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11/6/24 |
| No Mister |
There's probably more like this to come |
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11/5/24 |
| Breakfast Stay |
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11/4/24 |
| Alternating Currents |
The tingle in your toes |
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11/4/24 |
| All the Joy |
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10/31/24 |
| Asbestos Heart |
Gonna need a lot more time |
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10/31/24 |
| Oceans Between Us |
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10/30/24 |
| A List |
I might be one woman's dream |
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10/6/24 |
| People Collect People |
It's not cool to pin them up against the wall |
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10/4/24 |
| My Mind to Myself (Privacy Song) |
Don't make no laws and don't poke your nose |
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10/2/24 |
| Why Still (For So Long) |
What I don't understand, René |
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9/24/24 |
| Fix It |
Ain't no rainbow, pot of gold, ever gonna fix it |
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9/21/24 |
| This Front |
Even though we don't want to wear them |
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9/21/24 |
| The End Is Near |
It makes your opinions easier to defend |
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9/10/24 |
| Stroke |
A journey of precious inches |
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8/30/24 |
| Foreplay |
This is only a few minutes from one of life's treasured songs |
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8/29/24 |
| The Way It Once Seemed |
I think you have the word now to know that it's true |
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7/31/24 |
| incompleteness |
I was in the middle of a dream |
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7/22/24 |
| Lamplight (An Ode to the Nineteenth Century) |
Little glass bottles we drain of air |
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7/17/24 |
| Something More |
Much more than this, much more |
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7/17/24 |
| A Message |
Write me a letter even if you have no ink |
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6/22/24 |
| We Are Lost |
We even lost the map |
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6/18/24 |
| These Young Men |
With their kind offers and tender intimations |
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6/12/24 |
| Wigs, Wings, and Mannequins |
You have to share your hell |
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6/11/24 |
| More Than You Should |
You're still confused about some of this |
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6/8/24 |
| Future Drop |
Just keep paying those bills |
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6/8/24 |
| Why? |
And I will never know why |
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6/5/24 |
| Blood Proof II |
your bloodless smile is as always lacking |
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5/18/24 |
| Blood Proof III |
just some paint-by-number nonsense |
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5/17/24 |
| Sexy Without Fear |
It's what passes for a social life this year |
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5/9/24 |
| Tolls |
When they come due all is unsure |
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4/20/24 |
| Go Away (Leave Us Alone) |
Man you got a mouth on you |
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4/2/24 |
| You Have (Mona Lisa) |
You have the most of all |
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3/27/24 |
| (Some of You) Worship |
Some took to the old gods for comfort after theirs had died |
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3/26/24 |
| Go (Go Go) |
The anti-narcissist song? |
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2/24/24 |
| Little Things |
the things don't let a wedge between us |
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2/14/24 |
| Justice (or Just Us) |
We only want to be free |
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2/3/24 |
| The Kids |
The kids will never believe this |
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1/23/24 |
| A Glimpse of Joy |
...that you will never see |
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1/7/24 |
| It's a New Day Coming |
All over us this morning |
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1/1/24 |
| You Want This |
If you've ever been alive... |
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11/27/23 |
| Infraction 571428 |
When the acid burns your fingers |
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11/13/23 |
| Simplify |
Your wishes might help you learn to fly |
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11/6/23 |
| Exclusion |
...of all others |
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10/13/23 |
| A Song About You |
A redrafted version - stronger in general appeal |
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10/10/23 |
| A Song About You (Part One) |
The first version, which might make a nice album closer somewhere |
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10/9/23 |
| (My) Baby's on a Train |
Waiting for someone who never came |
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9/12/23 |
| Free Speech |
It's not enough to help them kick their addiction - stop abusing free speech |
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9/11/23 |
| (How) To Think |
You don't know |
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9/8/23 |
| The Luxury of History |
A bit more perspective |
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9/4/23 |
| The Luxury of History (Essay) |
A lot of perspective |
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9/3/23 |
| Everything Hurts |
...and for silence, I beg |
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8/21/23 |
| How Long |
Could I erase your presence? |
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8/5/23 |
| Ordinary Song |
About some ordinary people |
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8/3/23 |
| Science Fiction |
More or less |
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8/1/23 |
| Not For Me |
How to be free |
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8/1/23 |
| A Different Castle |
A castle after all but still... |
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7/4/23 |
| Teach Me |
With you within, with you without |
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7/2/23 |
| In Over Our Ears |
The middle of a kiss might be even more so |
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5/26/23 |
| One Sail |
Also about mythologies and our unadmitted failings |
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5/22/23 |
| Of the Conversation |
Not about mythologies or unadmitted failings |
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5/13/23 |
| seventeen lines |
you can't miss me if I don't |
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4/27/23 |
| Spring My Love Will Come |
When, then, where, there, why. How. |
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4/14/23 |
| I Want You |
Tell me now do you love her? |
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4/9/23 |
| Magic Never Leaves |
You don't know what I know you want me to need |
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4/4/23 |
| Wouldn't You? |
Love to love to love |
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3/26/23 |
| All Around Us |
And never calls the end |
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3/22/23 |
| (Bleed) In Dreams |
All traces of beauty to forget you remember |
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3/3/23 |
| Even Better, Sex |
You're better than all the rest. |
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2/22/23 |
| A Twisted Rocker (Not About Your Mother) |
...and every girl you ever haunted |
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2/9/23 |
| Twisted Rocker |
Your mother cares even if you can't be bothered |
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2/8/23 |
| Dead Girlfriend |
I don't care if you're there too |
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2/7/23 |
| Formaldehyde |
If only preserving memories was this easy |
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2/2/23 |
| Electric |
Zzzzt |
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1/23/23 |
| Ammonia |
Somebody had to say it |
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1/14/23 |
| Acutely Aware |
...of the time not spent doing this |
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12/25/22 |
| Scattered |
For the disrupted and the shattered among us all |
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12/21/22 |
| Does the Heart Feel Pain? |
A brief biochemical and philosophical analysis |
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12/1/22 |
| Habits |
From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? |
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11/28/22 |
| The Mess You're In |
This is not what you had planned |
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11/22/22 |
| Rather |
A simple little poem song about light and dark |
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10/26/22 |
| We Have Never Met |
It doesn't really matter in space or time to be |
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10/2/22 |
| New Ideas |
Open up my mind with your brave and wonderful new ideas |
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8/14/22 |
| Unwelcome Sense |
Which I have requested to not return |
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8/14/22 |
| Seared and Maddened |
A brief poem about connections |
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8/14/22 |
| Revolution |
If you want a revolution... |
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7/15/22 |
| Flowers |
I thought you were the one |
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7/8/22 |
| No Way to Live |
But a worse way to die. From notes of 6/21/22 |
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7/4/22 |
| By What Right? |
What I was trying to write five days ago |
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6/29/22 |
| again tomorrow |
...and it might be worse... |
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6/14/22 |
| Who Falls In Love |
Are you a person... |
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6/12/22 |
| Damaged Floor Model |
Just let me get out of here |
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5/22/22 |
| The Devil to a Draw |
nightmare slayer |
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5/21/22 |
| Psycho Metric |
ego love shallow trash |
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5/16/22 |
| Time With Fire |
Pasts and futures always present |
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5/3/22 |
| Girls & Boys |
Enjoying some holidays away |
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4/6/22 |
| By the Bay |
A story about a lovely couple |
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3/31/22 |
| My Lover Midnight |
A song about a magical garden |
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3/30/22 |
| You Have Been Gone |
A song about gaps in connections |
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3/30/22 |
| Who Could Ever Forget? |
A song about moments of eternity |
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3/13/22 |
| So Well |
A song. Do you really think so? |
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1/24/22 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
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1/13/22 |
| Magpies |
We understand corruption as little as we do justice |
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12/10/21 |
| All the Time |
Who else would understand? |
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11/5/21 |
| I Can't Come Anywhere Near You |
A love song, of sorts. A "can't love" song. |
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10/15/21 |
| Big Brother and Your Brain |
An essay about our modern, non-academic study of the human mind and how to influence it |
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10/13/21 |
| Dancing Woods |
Un poème, une chanson, de Norvège et d'Ecosse: a thousand-year throwback, give or take a century or two |
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9/30/21 |
| Wanted |
A briefly gentle sentiment |
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9/30/21 |
| Confidence |
A time of restlessnesses |
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8/9/21 |
| Invasive |
The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet |
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7/11/21 |
| The Pain |
Learning hurts. All learning hurts. |
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7/14/21 |
| Shopworn |
Damaged goods still sold as new |
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7/11/21 |
| Logix |
Common sense is even worse |
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7/8/21 |
| Mold and Cast |
The people I tend to like |
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6/21/21 |
| The Transition |
Shaking off the cobwebs of fiction. With music. |
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6/21/21 |
| Gender-free |
The privilege of life in the power corner |
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5/23/21 |
| Sublimation |
The physics of self |
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5/21/21 |
| synaesthesia |
It's not really synaesthesia, but interesting nonetheless |
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5/20/21 |
| The Cost of Violence |
Freedom is the first thing we lose. |
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5/18/21 |
| Depression in Isolation |
Reflections on a year of mental cycles |
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5/14/21 |
| Dryad |
Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it? |
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4/28/21 |
| Expression |
A result of oddly cruel fictions - and even crueler facts |
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3/13/21 |
| A Year In Isolation |
A report of oddly cruel facts - and even crueler fictions |
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3/11/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - part number three |
Another take on our sameness and differences |
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3/4/21 |
| and Art |
A poem about art and barnacles. And stuff. |
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2/26/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - version one point one |
A six-page expurgation about learning and coercive socialization |
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2/9/21 |
| Blackout |
I don't know what this (song) - or any of this - is. |
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1/26/21 |
| Born Wrong |
Another shard of pottery |
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1/8/21 |
| Nothing to Heal |
A song - a waltz macabre |
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1/8/21 |
| Strung Out |
A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. |
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12/8/20 |
| (Climbing) Gravity's Well |
An astronomical song |
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12/2/20 |
| Liberty |
A poem about freedom and time |
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11/24/20 |
| Solitary confinement |
...which is also late Oct pandemic notes |
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10/29/20 |
| Isolation and depression |
A rather raw piece about plague-driven depression |
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10/5/20 |
| death (is a theme) |
A poem about life |
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9/25/20 |
| Quantum of Infection |
On the probabilistic nature of our state of infection |
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4/23/20 |
| We're All the Same: Different |
Aren't we? The same in that we are different, that is? |
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3/22/20 |
| The Tower |
What is its purpose? |
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5/21/18 |
| Solitude |
I'm sure I have touched on this before |
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2/11/18 |
| Shattered |
A reflection on the nature of some 'broken' people |
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12/30/17 |
| Lighthouse (You Will Find Your Way) |
Another (song) from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
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12/6/17 |
| The Brain |
The brain is an organ |
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8/4/16 |
| Juvenilia |
Stylistic ramblings in pottery land |
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10/1/14 |
| idiots3 |
intelligent design? |
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12/21/05 |
| mind9 |
space, time, and irrational thoughts about curvatures |
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12/18/05 |
| Frequently Asked Questions |
what it says on the tin |
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6/23/05 |
| otherpeopleisms |
a few things that made me chuckle |
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5/22/05 |
| contact |
strangers, people, and communication |
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11/28/03 |
| questions2.htm |
interviewing versus actually being with |
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8/17/03 |
| prometheus |
a harsh and tragic outburst of ego |
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1/21/03 |
| words |
a little diddly about language and minds |
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1/19/03 |
| spirit13 |
the nature of a strange 'organ' |
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4/2/02 |
| mind8 |
consciousness by degrees, and the magic of language |
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1/19/02 |
| mind7 |
the mind: what it is, how it evolved and how it works |
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1/15/02 |
| mind6 |
emotions are our unconscious talking to us |
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1/01/02 |
| mind5 |
dreams are how we file away our experiences |
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1/01/02 |
| mind4 |
the model as applied to mental illness |
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1/01/02 |
| mind3 |
how this model could be tested and made rigorous |
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1/01/02 |
| mind2 |
some charts of an amusing model: the 'Huw Diagram' |
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1/01/02 |
| drugs |
they're bad, don't use them, unless... |
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12/27/01 |
| decision1 |
building useful 'decision trees' in real life |
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12/11/01 |
| emotion5 |
those complicated chemicals in your brain |
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9/5/01 |
| human1 |
human nature: part one |
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8/18/01 |
| human2 |
human nature: part two |
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8/18/01 |
| human3 |
human nature: part three |
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8/18/01 |
| self1 |
on the nature of consciousness |
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6/7/01 |
| Periodic depression |
depression, my little black puppy... |
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11/16/00 |
| emotion3 |
a rebuttal to part of emotion1! |
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10/22/00 |
| emotion1 |
emotions, what they are and how to live with them |
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10/18/00 |
| emotion2 |
an incomplete list of emotions... |
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10/18/00 |
| thesis3 |
four emotional stages of rebellion |
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8/13/00 |
| cycles7 |
seven year growth cycles of the personality |
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8/5/00 |
| meaning1 |
which came first? an important question |
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8/5/00 |
| mind1 |
my 'bamboo' analogy of the personality and mind |
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8/2/00 |
| ai |
Artificial Intelligence |
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3/12/00 |
| theMindxxxx |
a site expounding a theory of  |
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Feb-Mar/00 |
| stillborn |
a short but powerful prose poem |
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1/9/00 |
| privacy1 |
just a few simple words |
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12/2/99 |
| Believe |
a song about faith from 'Ruins' |
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5/6/98 |
| Choices |
a song about freedom from 'Ruins' |
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1/28/97 |
| truth0 |
some scattered thoughts I found lying around |
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1/25/87 |
Random |
Pick a thought at random, or go to the "index index" |
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Indexed |
| Support | This is where I shamelessly solicit your contribution to the cause! |
| Dedicate | A list of past dedications |
| Reading | Some recommended reading |
