Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I’m trying to recollect the past week – three major US cities and almost 3000 miles – but the cheesesteak in my stomach would love a siesta right now. The last few days have been as delicious as that sandwich, but the aftermath just as tiring, my brain a garbled mess of alcohol and meat,…

The drive. For many, a miserable and taxing transition from journey’s start to end. A grueling, arduous task whose only redemption is found in the destination. But I love it. Yes, I struggle with this overweight, underpowered, green hatchback, with its anachronistic third pedal, climbing mountains through nothing but sheer will. Even so, get an open road in…

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure towards worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imaged would be much more normal than they turned out to be. One final gasp of this San Francisco cafe, a mainstay of the last few months while preparing for…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood | And sorry I could not travel both | And be one traveler, long I stood | And looked down one as far as I could | To where it bent in the undergrowth I’m a week away from leaving San Francisco, so now’s a good a time as any…