Digital Minimalism

I'm consolidating my blogs, so these are my posted artworks from my former blog Digital Minimalism, circa 24 June 2013. I am particularly proud of my IV Seasons set, especially the stark contrast in Winter, although the Allegory of Consumerism is an old classic. I hope that you enjoy my art and my style, and feel free to comment!

 

 

Allegory of Consumerism

 

 

 

 

 

IV Seasons

 

 

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

Rain on My Parade

Today was rainy. I went outside thinking what a crappy day it was, but taking a second look, and remembering the writings of Luther Standing Bear on the Lakota view of all weather as a gift of Wakan Tanka, I realized how beautiful the rain-soaked nature really was. Why do we generally despise non-sunny days? Why is "bad weather" even a phrase?

I imagine that regarding rain in particular, we personalize and emotionalize it, viewing it analogically as gloomy tears covering the earth. Why should we view rain this way? Would it not be more healthy, not to mention more hydrospherically accurate, to view rainy days as the life-giving vibrancy of nature?

The Journey Begins

This blog is about living the philosophical life, a life worth living. While we might discuss complex issues or philosophic subtleties, this blog will encompass more than merely academic philosophy, often a philosophy cut off from real inquiry into the nature of the True—a sterile, academic pseudo-philosophy which I have attempted to overcome in the philosophy of law at my blog Beatific Juridical Teleology.

This blog will have a broader scope; that is all I have to say. The philosophical life is not to be planned but to be lived. I hope that Philosophical Living serves both author and reader in living lives ordered to the pursuit of truth in a dialectic of honesty. But leave your ideology boots at the door; the house of truth is easily soiled.