Tag Archives: purpose

Purposeless

Posted on December 10, 2020 by swabby429

Video channels featuring mid-century American automobiles have been showing up in my YouTube feeds the past few weeks. I’m guessing that the algorithm has “noticed” that I search for mid-century items, in general, so why not include cars? I clicked … Continue reading →

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Wall-Mounting My Existential Crisis

Posted on January 19, 2019 by swabby429

Once or twice a year something triggers a mild existential melancholy where I lose track of my place in the world. I was once told that this is a common feature of growing older. An innocuous observation the other day … Continue reading →

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Existential Blues

Posted on August 4, 2018 by swabby429

The classroom was filled with college students for my lecture about existentialism. I felt their rapt attention to every word. Before the end of the talk, a freckle-faced young man wearing a knitted beanie interrupted my speech by asking if … Continue reading →

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