Rick Joines

Two people stand opposite of each other where two split walls of different stone designs almost meet in the middle.

Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.

Essays Philosophy

On the Something There Is

April 17, 2023April 23, 2023 17 min read Rick Joines Henry David Thoreau, Pragmatism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Rorty, Robert Frost, William James

Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.