Josh Kornbluth

Josh Kornbluth

Chicago

I’m visiting my mom in Chicago — here to help her move from one apartment to another at the Selfhelp Home, where she and her husband, my stepfather Frank Rosen, live. Being back in this city is putting me in mind of when I arrived here in the summer of ’79, to work a summer … Read more

Day 4 of Incrementalism

Making progress, but also facing self-recriminations.  The recriminations are for things that I haven’t yet done — but strangely, they’re things that I already hadn’t done, but in many cases had forgotten about not doing.  Peel away a layer, and you see all the older layers: Aaaah!! Is it possible to function while seeing and feeling … Read more

Incrementalism

I’m trying to do things incrementally — not waiting for the big moment of inspiration/desperation to strike, but pushing through even though I still feel stuck-ish.  I think I got this idea, in part, from cycling: the pedal-stroke-by-pedal-stroke ploddingness that somehow leads (eventually) to the finish. Might could work.  I’m hopeful!