QUERY_INITIATED

Journal.

fragments of quiet intelligence

There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.

Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...

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Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not

been written

From the archive.

The Bicycle
Home & Daily Life

The Bicycle

My bicycle made a noise this morning that I did not like. It wasn’t particularly loud, but it was persistent enough to make me spend the first part of the...

The Dutch I Use Without Thinking
Journey & Time

The Dutch I Use Without Thinking

I realised this morning that I had spent nearly ten minutes speaking Dutch without once thinking about the fact that I was speaking Dutch. It happened at work, during an...

Museum Sundays
Beauty & Art

Museum Sundays

We went to a museum today because I wanted to look at something that wasn’t on a screen. This is becoming an increasingly important consideration after a working week spent...

Country Saturday
Music & Sound

Country Saturday

I spent most of this afternoon listening to country music while doing things around the house, and by the time Yuri came home I had moved from Johnny Cash to...

Things We Can Measure Anyway
Science & Technology

Things We Can Measure Anyway

I was looking at a photograph of the LIGO interferometer this morning when Yuri asked what I was reading. I told him I was trying to understand how the detectors...

Invisible Things
Science & Technology

Invisible Things

I spent part of this evening thinking about all the things that affect our lives without being directly visible to us. Not in a mysterious or supernatural way, but in...

Physics > Flowers
Questions & Musings

Physics > Flowers

I told Yuri this morning that gravitational waves were probably the most romantic thing that had happened to me this February, and he looked at me over his coffee with...

Valentine
Affinity & Heart

Valentine

Valentine’s Day began with Yuri bringing me coffee while I was still in bed, which is a very effective way of reminding me why I have kept him around for...

That Is a Beautiful Sentence
Questions & Musings

That Is a Beautiful Sentence

I was standing in a bookshop this afternoon when I found myself thinking again about the phrase “we detected gravitational waves.” It is such a simple sentence. Five words in...

Spacetime Made a Sound
Science & Technology

Spacetime Made a Sound

I woke up this morning with the sound of yesterday’s gravitational-wave signal in my head, which is a strange sentence to write about a Friday in February. Strictly speaking, of...

Einstein
Science & Technology

Einstein

I have been thinking about Einstein tonight, which is probably inevitable after the day we’ve had. More than a century ago, he developed a theory that changed the way we...

Thirteen Years of Blogging
Questions & Musings

Thirteen Years of Blogging

I have been thinking about the blog all evening, and not only because today is its anniversary. After dinner I opened some old folders on the computer and started looking...

Visual Heritage

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