Free to Navel Gaze
Discoveries by E. Marmer
I heard from my mother that Melvin Beylis died. I’m using fictitious names for privacy, so this man I remember with fondness is going to be named Melvin Beylis. The last time I saw Melvin was close to 30 years ago, and, before that, was when I was a...
Some people use the accusation of “gazing at your own navel” to dismiss a self-exploratory mental exercise as useless, self-indulgent, narcissistic, or worse, primitive. Something an ape might do. But an ape doesn’t ruminate as we do, not about its navel or anything else, and so I reject that characterization. To people...
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
