Author Archives: zoeticseeker

People say the phrase, I love you, is over-used, that the words lacking meaning. People claim you cannot say I love you, you need to show love. But can you say it? In another iteration of my 65-er lists (65 things to do while watching TV; 65 things to do while not sleeping; 65 thingsContinue reading “65 ways to say I love you”

In the early 2000’s when the slow food movement was established in the United States, and thus I first gained wind of it, I was ecstatic. Finally, I thought, people were interested in taking their time about eating…about anything. In what should have been a time of rapid advancement in my life, two years afterContinue reading “slow, slower, slowest…and slower still”

Recently we moved. Our new home is a small Cape perched on the edge of a serene pond amidst pine, maple, and flowering dogwoods. Slightly uphill sits its detached garage. In between the house and the garage lies a border: the house dwells in one town while the garage lives in the neighboring town. EveryContinue reading “borders, boundaries, edges, and death”

to the friend I lost We met in preschool. I came home one day and told my mother I wanted a playdate with “the girl with one eye.” You wore an eyepatch because of a required corrective surgery. The eyepatch made you an original, but it was your gentle nature that made me want toContinue reading “lessons in friendship”

If you think about it, Marx’s Capital is all about the other. Let’s start, simply, with a commodity. It is, as Marx explains, “in the first place, an object outside of us,” an other. Now, if we want to exchange one commodity for another, we need a third ‘something’ to which the exchange-value of eachContinue reading “othering”

When I was 15, I was in the French Alps on a skiing trip as part of my private school’s French exchange program during spring vacation. We were staying in a hostel coincidentally at the same time as a group of young French agricultural students who were college-aged and gregarious. There was one of themContinue reading “65 things i want to say but never have”

A thick falling snow always quiets the world. Even the howls of wind outside are muffled. This is our fourth or fifth, actually I don’t remember how many at this point, blizzard of this winter. I am up early – well not actually. It is 7am and I was up a little before 6am. ThatContinue reading “quiet in the silence”

In a machine world, things break. They break and, because there are only specialized people who can fix them, they sit in said broken state, ‘out of order.’ There will be a sign, sometimes formal, sometimes hastily written by management, usually with a warning or apology – ‘caution’ or ‘sorry’… but sometimes just the obvious,Continue reading “out of order”

I stirred the pot. I churned up the dregs of my existence. And with my insides turning over and over, the agitation brought the past into my present, the fractured pieces of memory back into my ongoing consciousness. I greeted this other me with anguish. I both knew it was impossible to be simultaneous withContinue reading “self-reflection: the upside-down now of stepping through the looking-glass”