The Passion Diaries 

The following “commodities” are quintessential reflections of contemporary man’s utterly ridiculous (and delightfully hilarious) efforts to extend his inventive projects far beyond the level of necessity but far short of any genuinely beneficial ingenuity.

# 1 The “Long Reach Comfort Wipe”

The Precedent: Arm + Hand + TP

03/06/2014

Bullying is not merely the stuff of preschool playgrounds, high school hallways, and the tween-to-teen Twittersphere. While it is fair to say that the gradual maturation of one’s moral compass sees a concomitant tapering of social cruelty, the extent to which this tapering occurs is exaggerated by smokescreens and sophistry. I hear it all the time—“Kids a...

I am "devil's advocate" personified (a trait attributable, in large part, to my upbringing). I was always taught to put myself in others’ shoes. If empathy is a sense or capacity, mine was well nurtured and, while it is something that is now deeply engrained in my character, I take little credit for it. I believe every one of us is born with basic capacities for empathy and compassion, but they are nothing if not nurtured.

  I have been struggling to choose a topic for my first entry. It is apparent (to me), that the first public entry poses the biggest challenge, because I feel that the first has to be everything at once. I’m paralyzed by the daunting, unapologetic weight of first impressions. “It has to be an attention grabber, a spark of brilliance, a delegate for my cognitive committ...

To speak of "purpose" is to perceive its absence. To pursue "purpose" is to both acknowledge its absence and believe in the possibility of its presence. The concept itself (purpose) develops out of a palpable lack within the individual—an insufferable inte...