We tend to live with the fiction that we make choices based on some sort of semi-logical deliberation , when in reality our choices come from a much broader, larger context. In fact, if we're really living in our lives, fully present, the decisions that we need to make I think can become a lot more clear. But if we spend our time and energy worrying, we can become so disconnected from our lives that we either end up making no decision at all, or we make disembodied decisions that do not really relate to the actual context of our being. The date of the party was set to coincide with the Cameroonian Independence Day celebrations, which is a big holiday there. Jen is recently returned from the Peace Corps in Cameroon , where she was stationed for two years.
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I have been thinking a lot about meaning, the unknown, and the unknowable . The entire paradigm itself might change, for example. So there are many ways to play in this system. In some sense, therefore, art and poetry can be more powerful forms of communication that propositions, because they can inherently refer to the concrete unknown, they can bring in that which is not under our reductive gaze. In other words, although we always leave something out, the universe does not, in a sense.