The sage knows when to hold to this and let go of that.

Humans are, at their essence, explainers. We want to understand our world and our lives. We want to explain things to ourselves and to others. It is this essential quality that has propelled us through the ages in science and art and social relations. In the end, our lives are spent answering the how's and why's of the Universe. This overwhelming task usually takes a lifetime as we are seduced into focusing on narrow fields of understanding and coming up with distinctions that, in the end, provide temporary comfort and satisfaction but do not prove TRUE. This blog is a place for those distinctions so that, like unknown terrors that paralyze us, their naming can render them ridiculous.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Dubious Dylan

"I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me." That's from Dylan's Grammy winning hit "Things Have Changed." Like a lot of Dylan's more subtle stuff, when I first heard that, I didn't get it. It seemed so simple and, yet, so impossible. Now, it seems so impossible and, yet, so simple. There you go.
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