Brian S. Hook
Sep 15, 2024

"It's not about me." You've probably seen David Foster Wallace's commencement 2005 speech, "This Is Water," but I'll share it here. As Wallace notes, it's a banal platitude to say so, but it's the fundamental challenge for all of us in our efforts to burrow beneath our default setting to be truly conscious and aware.

Lovely piece, Kasey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY&t=1s

Brian S. Hook
Brian S. Hook

Written by Brian S. Hook

Dad, classicist, mountain dweller, erstwhile triathlete, wannabe woodworker, follower of Socrates and Jesus (two famous non-writers), writing to avoid raveling

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