WORKS ON DIGITAL PAPER

Jake

The meshy gauze that is the retaining wall between the internal and external is as porous as it is restrictive. In what amounts to an ulcer, the constitution is submissive enough to let things seep out in lessened force with lessened initiative. It is in nature to struggle against such incrementalities, however. Nature is propelled toward the great gush, the opening and letting. Dams burst and droughts reign. Summer fires rip through forests and bring winter mudslides. Volcanoes erupt. We eat too much, we gorge ourselves. We drink and become drunk. We harbor and resent. We hug and kiss. And nature brings us back to regulation. The dam is repaired. The earth is renewed. The seep continues. The Buddhists conceive of the absence of this deluge and torrent. They would avert the frustration of expectation. It is different than the Christians or the Muslims or the Jews. Theirs is a world filled with the spasmodic recriminations of the deity. Expectation embraced.
The conversation between the two seems quite natural.

An interesting article in the New York Times Magazine this last Sunday.