Via Negativa

Smorgasblog

• Pharyngula
  Everything is fluid. Biology isn't about fixed and rigidly invariant processes — it's about squishy, dynamic, and interactive stuff making do.

• Fragments from Floyd
  Today, 92% of new American homes are air-conditioned, and most of the electricity to produce our cool air comes at the expense of Appalachian mountaintop coal, hence the paradox: greater indoor climate control contributes to an outdoor climate out of control.

• Coyote Crossing
  Worship isn't love. It's more like hatred. People worship you, they expect things in return for that worship. Handholding.

• The Storialist
  You are cautious
  on your off day, creeping up to examine
  your own moves and motives. Better to
  hang back, wary, a dog sniffing at a stranger.

• small change
  I wish our hearts came equipped with their own larynx.
  A boom box for the murmur of the eddy-riddled river.

• The Rag and Bone Shop
  There are people of river and
  grass, and there are people of
  concrete and glass.

• Rosefire Rising
  There is a memory of having been a mountain, complete with irony and the assumption of youthful arrogance, a sense of wholeness we did not recognize until it was lost. Once we are broken, it opens so many perspectives...

• Dick Jones' Patteran Pages
  But what can I tell you
  about time that I would
  have you know so soon?

• Paula's House of Toast
  I confess. I love the outer darkness.

• Connaissances
  My family were now alone in the cathedral as she sang to us, her lovely singing filling the vast echoey space. Her impromptu performance consisted of devotional songs which she had learnt this year before going on a choir tour in Belgium. The sound took on an immense physicality as it bounded out into the great amplifying chamber and reverberated back at varying intervals from the different enclaves of the church.