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Scenes Of A Life Coming Together
This letter took a long time to come, love, but I'm here.
Nov 11, 2025
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Jordan Ali
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Acceleration
Gravity makes stars and stars make life, but life can veer from the forces that make it.
Sep 30, 2025
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Jordan Ali
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between everything and nothing
what does pure perception feel like?
May 20, 2025
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This Valuable Truth
Mar 12, 2024
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Emotions of Elation
Nov 25, 2024
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Jordan Ali
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The Known and Unknown
Oct 30, 2024
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Seeing Him Again (sketch)
Jul 18, 2023
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quintet ideas
Aug 8, 2023
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the paradox of love
Apr 1, 2025
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The Strangeness of the World
Why does any of this stuff matter
May 16, 2025
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Jordan Ali
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The Breath of Meaning
meditations on Tavener's "Song For Athene"
May 6, 2025
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Its Own Gospel
What is the shape of a phrase?
Apr 29, 2025
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feeling and meaning
how does feeling become meaning?
Apr 24, 2025
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Jordan Ali
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The shape of musical time
Being, embodiment, and the study of time in music
Apr 15, 2025
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the paradox of love
the heart-opening kind
Apr 1, 2025
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The Intimacy of Elizabeth Cotten
What it means for a song about death to be written by a child and sung by an elder.
Mar 24, 2025
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