Category: elegy

• In Memory of Little Beasts

  May 16

  I’m devastated, and I’ve been bawling my eyes out for days now. I went to bed Friday evening sure that my little family was safe and well, only to lose… more ›

• Memories of Uncle Bob

  Dec 26

  Last week we buried Uncle Bob. Despite the fact that the bar was ridiculously low, he was nevertheless my favorite uncle. Two of my earliest memories are of him. I… more ›

• Elegy for José Gaos

  Mar 3

  Philosophy in Mexico, philosophy in Latin America has suffered the loss of its most distinguished cultivators. Faced with so painful a fact, these words, devoid of serenity and written with… more ›

• Four in the Morning

  Feb 1

  Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012). Rest in peace. more ›

• Apr 30

  Griga Leaf March 19, 1994 – April 30, 2011 Pure and complete love. Rest in peace, Baby Griga. more ›

• Notes on the Fortieth Anniversary of Mishima’s Suicide

  Nov 25

  It’s difficult not to feel somewhat overwhelmed with ambivalence regarding Mishima: a gifted writer and a sensitive thinker as well as a fascist and an imperialist trapped by nostalgia for… more ›

• 8:15

  Aug 6

  Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe writes about Hiroshima, moral responsibility, outrage, and aging in today’s The New York Times op-ed section. It’s an oblique essay about the travesty of Japanese policy… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: The Bewitching Hour

  Oct 9

  When I still lived in Kansas all those years ago, I would wake up in the middle of the night terrified out of my skin because of the witch sitting… more ›

• I Shall Die

  Sep 17

  One of the first concerts I attended was a Peter, Paul and Mary reunion tour through Dallas in 1986. I remember listening to them as a child, long after they… more ›

• Sep 10

  Zimba LeafMarch 19, 1994 – September 6, 2008 Rest in peace, my little green-eyed “monster.” Zoom zoom. more ›