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The Trap of Visibility
A bilingual reflection on the danger of becoming conveniently consumable, anchored by 無用終年.
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August 12, 2019
Ancestral Mathematics
In order to be born, you needed: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 second great-grandparents 32 third great-grandparents 64 fourth great-grandparents 128 fifth grea…
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September 11, 2018
Future Geneses
Enveloped by calescent nights above the nubilous vista, I sudorificly build the armamentarium of future geneses. Let us breathe both passion and pathos in this self-exposed exile……
Moments
July 21, 2018
Find us Again
A cruel world obliged us to travail sub rosa; to sacrifice the heart for a greater calling. Yet below the coruscating spine of a nebulous sky, I reminisce the unforgeable paraph o…
Moments
May 6, 2018
A Commitment to Understanding
In all these years working with street gangs and the victims of both structural and behavioral violence, we have learned one thing: it takes commitment to transform pain and awake…
Words
April 27, 2018
Life and Will
Life is already flowing towards us and through us; our responsibility is to meet it intentionally, this is what is called — will . – Lyrical Zen
Words
March 14, 2018
One Out of Many
When we navigate the currents of the soul, we find ourselves within our ancestral consciousness. We are the composite of all events, all happenstance and all circumstances that ha…
Moments
March 7, 2018
Forgiving for Love
Love is the place we arrive at where we do not want anything from another person, but we want to give who we are to that other person. In order to accomplish companionship and und…
Moments
March 4, 2018
Free in Your Destiny
There is profound tristesse in observing a person that you love make others and yourself so happy, yet they’re unable to bring just as much joy to themselves; there is agonizing h…
Moments
February 17, 2018
Dwell in the Ocean of Living Truth
A life that dwells in the ocean of living truth, finds peace beneath the tumbling waves. Sacrifices are made by those who comprehend the inevitable, so as to protect loved ones fr…
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February 15, 2018
Two Loving Souls
When two loving souls intertwine as one, they enter the numinous nature of the multiverse… When two loving souls depart from one another, they enter the irremediable sorrow of lif…
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February 13, 2018
La Calle del Humo (Concrete Haze) – Movie Teaser
English – Synopsis Lyrical Zen Productions presents the feature film “Concrete Haze”, a story of conflict and survival based on real events in the poverty-stricken outskirts of Ca…
Moments
February 6, 2018
A Place of Broken Souls
There exists a place of broken and unrewarded souls; a place of wounded wanderers clinging on to the flickering lamp of their own dignity; a place of innumerable tales of systemat…
Moments
February 5, 2018
If I Refuse to Dream in Silence
If I refuse to dream in silence it is because persistence is a type of love that endures the test of time… — Lyrical Zen
Words
January 30, 2018
Alone Together
In a world often depleted of mercy, we must face a vast aloneness together. For those of us left with scant little but a dreaming heart, there is multiplicity in the meshing of ou…
Words
April 17, 2015
Loving in Silence
T ears submerged in an ocean of silence, after so many years, become the mute messengers of an undeclared love; an inaudible spirit searching to appease the unreachable sadness in…
Words
October 14, 2013
Fierce But Never Violent
Be fierce but never violent, Be sensitive but never weak, Be forgiving but never forget, Be persistent but never impatient, Be demanding but never needy, Be visionary but never lo…
Words
April 18, 2013
The Tears of Men
A man in my position is expected to wear a mask for so long that he forgets who was beneath it. They said that speaking of romance and matters of the heart would make a man weak –…
Words
April 17, 2013
An Apology to My Loved Ones
W riting this at a time so still that the year seemed not to have begun at all. It’s amazing how much one is able to recollect simply by trying – whether musing the past or dreami…
Words
April 17, 2013
Lettre d’un Petit-fils
C ‘est avec grande tristesse que je n’ai pas pu t’accompagner plus longtemps, en écrivant ce mot, un vent de nostalgie me frappe en plein cœur de la nuit…Pourtant, j’arrive à revi…
Words
February 15, 2013
The Mathematics of Love
M athematically speaking, I failed in solving the elusive equation of love. I wanted to subtract myself from the equation in order to divide the pains from the joys and multiply t…