0 Kills. Let us go then.

Stating one's purpose in any endeavor is a courtesy not just to others but to oneself. It sets the framework of a clear course against which a person can be checked or check himself to stay on it. 

I often don't think clearly. I often don't write clearly. I often don't speak clearly. I want to improve my performance of those activities. Also, I would like to set down all of the scattered thoughts, writings, etymologies, experiences that accumulate in my life in one place. Also, I was born one day and I will die one day, and my life is, has been, and will be entirely unique in the history of this planet. I think it's worth documenting, at the very least, the parts which I find interesting and those which I think some of my peers in this epoch will or would find interesting. 

I've given this collection the title, Sight Celebration, because I honor ideas. The word celebration has the etymology of speaking praise of someone or something, but it also gives the impression of dancing around that someone or something, stoking its/their fire and taking that energy into oneself. That's what I do with ideas, which have the etymology, 'to see' specifically in the sense of a form or pattern, that is to me, seeing the unity of the world behind the chaos that often appears before our eyes. Sight, to my mind, always creates unity, it always either focuses on one object or it turns the scattered diversity before it into a unified whole. And this is what we do with ideas, we make the things of the world relatable to our unique human framework, we make what is beyond physical grasp sensible. And this activity almost always bears with it the attendant feeling that we as finite beings have touched infinity, that we've brought it into view, like lightning emerging from darkness. Ideas reveal the spirit of the world. And that's something that makes me dance. 

On a separate note, the word 'condition' comes from the Latin meaning say together, perhaps with some connotation of command or authority. And the OED says that this Latin definition already comprised our conventional understanding of the word as 'state of being'. So, we should understand a condition always as a saying together, as a truth that we attest to together. If I speak of the condition of my book as ragged, I'm speaking a truth about its being that only finds meaning in our mutual understanding of its raggedness. The word 'condition' tells us then that truth, understanding is always a communal project.