https://www.tuirgin.com/tags/boris-pasternak/ Recent content in Boris Pasternak on On the Backs of Turtles Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us blog@tuirgin.com (Christopher D. Walborn) blog@tuirgin.com (Christopher D. Walborn) &copy; 2018 Christopher D. Walborn [Some Rights Reserved](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:48:00 +0000 https://www.tuirgin.com/post/20180708-openness_of_thought/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:48:00 +0000 blog@tuirgin.com (Christopher D. Walborn) https://www.tuirgin.com/post/20180708-openness_of_thought/ <h3 id="words-creative-and-limiting">Words: Creative and Limiting</h3> <p>Recently I was discussing with a friend my failed aspirations to be a writer. I have a complex relationship with words. On the one hand they are an art form capable of extending, composing, and in some sense creating the world of our perceptions. On the other hand, they often tend to confine, reduce, limit, and damn us to live within a tinny parody of our fullest experience. </p>