“I think; therefore, I am,” seems odd...


“I think; therefore, I am,” seems odd, 

respect for Descartes notwithstanding.


Descartes – If I understand – began his search for truth, 

rejecting what he doubted. 


The senses, he observed, could be deceived. 

And so his mind became the thing he could not doubt. 


But anyone who's had rocks in a shoe 

recalls the persistence of a rock's existence. 


We realize we are because we think. 

But we don't imagine being before existence happens to us. 


Though we do sometimes imagine 

ceasing to exist.

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