Author Archives: Ossington

About Ossington

I often think but seldom share these thoughts. And if the product of my thinking is to affect anything but my own sense of satisfaction, then surely it must be shared. Here you may try to know what I believe to know.

The old, the powerful (short story)

Posted on April 17, 2017

From beyond the knowledge of the shell, of even the projectile within, the hammer follows the will of some finger (the appendage to a much larger question atop a question, atop a question ad infinitum, until we reach not some … Continue reading →

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Photo, words

Posted on April 15, 2017

“I am become death, destroyer of worlds”, he said, learning against his bicycle, his feet, and it, planted into the sun-white grass, the stark black of the leaves, beneath him. “Did you mean to say that?”, she asked, looking through … Continue reading →

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20161024 – navel gazing

Posted on October 24, 2016

Words and ideas, they opine in my head. Flowing, but not like water rushing over the fall’s edge, cascading into the air as a great, white, billowing mist. No. These days, the words and ideas seem to move about like flotsam, forgotten: trash … Continue reading →

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Watch “Joe Rogan Experience #750 – Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, producers of Cowspiracy” on YouTube

Posted on January 31, 2016

Found this podcast subscribed on my walk home, tonight. A talk on Cowspiracy, a Netflix documentary concerning the consequences of our way of life. -J

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Love, or some such thing | 20151008

Posted on October 8, 2015

Love It’s amazing how fucking can be so important to me, while at the same time being lesser than this idea of love. But what is more real, a physical act between two people, or some lofty, vague idea that … Continue reading →

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03/30/2015 – TPP | Chris Hedges on the next 50 years

Posted on March 30, 2015

Ho folks, Business interests are to this world as the massive Kraken is to the ship which it is squeezing, crushing, pulling beneath the waves. Of course, before the ship’s back is broken, we feast on the fruit of the … Continue reading →

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McKenna on creativity | Sagan on Earth | 021715

Posted on February 17, 2015

To say that I have been neglecting this blog is an understatement. I have been putting all of my energies onto my primary project. The status of that project? Stalled. It is very disheartening to see so much valuable time … Continue reading →

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Abou Ali Issa: The Lebanese Hero Of The Tripoli Explosions

Posted on January 12, 2015

Originally posted on A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares:
Two days ago, Tripoli got hit with death yet again as a terrorist attack took place in its Jabal Mohsen neighborhood. The politics and intricacies of the attack…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins, a conversation | The Poetry of Science + a tight beat

Posted on December 12, 2014

Ho folks, I hope you enjoy, or find useful, the following. Science – Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins, and astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson speak their minds Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins – The Poetry of Science Music – Vanic X K.Flay … Continue reading →

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The Power of Empathy | How the economy works | Sounds of the universe

Posted on November 18, 2014

Good morning all, I hope your week is going well. RSA Shorts – The Power of Empathy: What is empathy, and why it is different from sympathy. How the economy works in 30 minutes. From the largest hedge fund manager … Continue reading →

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