Daniel Coffeen
Daniel is an independent writer, reader, teacher, and philosopher. Follow him on Twitter here.
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Daniel Coffeen
What Is An Image? Or, There’s No Such Thing As Acting Naturally
A camera gathers up a perceptive event in its entirety. It’s gloriously stupid, or generous, like that.
Cheating Could Be A Part Of Your (Healthy) Relationship
Love accepts and embraces. Love doesn’t judge; it doesn’t own. Self-loathing judges and owns. Ego judges and owns. Love, well, loves.
Making Decisions Amidst the Flux of It All
After all, making a decision based on how you feel right now is often silly.
Life Is Flux
There are no points we pass at which time life just gets easier, gets normal, gets sorted out.
Reading Myself Through Time
There are times I don’t recognize myself.
Perspective Is Everything
There’s a house there. See it? I see it, too. But I see it from here and you see it from there. We are standing in different positions.
We Make Sense Together
Think about the wide cast of characters who go into making a movie.
The Energy Problem… Is You!
“There’s an energy crisis happening, all right: a human one.”
The Temptation Of Nothing
A man lies on his living room floor. His eyes are closed, arms by his side. His face is still, even, but occasionally furrowed.
How I Know Birds Fly For Fun
Decades ago, I was visiting a friend in Maine on this incredible island called Isle Au Haut with almost no people, no electricity, no running water.
Breaking Good: On ‘The Good Wife’ And ‘Breaking Bad’
What seems conspicuous is that both explore, to a greater or lesser degree, the conditions of becoming within the confines of culturally defined gender roles.
Seeing With Soft Eyes
I see her decision to go out with friends, to lunch with a male work acquaintance, to knit, to sleep with her back to me as meaningful, as a statement about me.