I started the reflecting pool in 2011, shortly after coming back to the US after spending a year in West Africa with the Peace Corps. It was a time of both joy and alienation - a bittersweet return to a homeland awash in both material joys and meaningless noise.
Full of idealogues entrenched behind their ramparts, howling at each other and hearing nothing.
I needed an outlet for the voice in my head that's continuously trying to process the insanity of the world.
This is it.
What you will find on the front page and the archives is a hodge podge of thought on politics, culture, epistemology, art, aesthetics, and science with a sprinkling of creative writing, photography, and doodles.This is it.
Consume them at your own risk.