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Author: maxfierrog

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-  copyright: Copyright © 2024 Max Fierro
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content/_index.md

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-If you are here to learn about me as a collaborator, you might be interested in [my resume](/resume/). Otherwise, you can look at my favorite [music collections](/music/). I occasionally write things for "fun" and publish them later as [series of notes](/notes/) or as objective or subjective self-contained works. If you find something interesting or useful, buy a lottery ticket.
+If you are here to learn about me as a collaborator, you might be interested in [my resume](/resume/). Otherwise, you can look at my favorite [music collections](/music/). I occasionally write things for "fun" and publish them later as [series of notes](/notes/) or as objective or subjective self-contained works. If you find something interesting or useful, uh, wow.
 
 **Email:** `maxfierro (at) berkeley (dot) edu`
 

content/music.md

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+{{< album src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273a3ec3ea27c858d95e7c9e9a4" >}}
+### Summertime 
+<div>Paul Desmond</div>
+
+I always thought of Paul Desmond's performances as dishonest through their failure to aesthetically acknowledge the hardship and complexity there is in life. While I still think his style does not properly acknowledge these things, I grew some "trust" that lets me enjoy it by understanding that it is a (constructive) break from those realities.
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+{{< /album >}}
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 {{< album src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27327d473c26c974cf5a70c1986" >}}
 ### The Elements 
 <div>Joe Henderson and Alice Coltrane</div>
 
-I am honestly not sure how to describe this album in a way that does not place its cultural influences first, which are quite palpably Indian (via Alice Coltrane's spiritual pursuits) and African-American (through jazz itself). I like to listen to this half-awake and let it sequester my attention. Although it is not meditative (it is very "boppy").
+I am honestly not sure how to describe this album in a way that does not place its cultural influences first, which are quite palpably Indian (via Alice Coltrane's spiritual pursuits) and African-American. I like to listen to this half-awake and let it sequester my attention. Although it is not meditative (it is very "boppy").
 
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content/posts/absoluto-poem/index.md

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 date: 2025-09-15
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-Inspired by the night sky of Joshua Tree National Park, which I visited with my sister Mara.
+Thoughts after the night sky of Joshua Tree National Park, which I visited with my sister Mara.
 
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content/posts/caliz-poem/index.md

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 date: 2025-09-21
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-Dedicated to a person-like abstraction I created during meditation as a recipient to feelings of loss and affection.
+Dedicated to a person-like concept I considered while meditating as a recipient to feelings of loss and affection.
 
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content/posts/carlos-poem/index.md

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+title: "Poem 13. \"Carlos\""
+category: personal
+date: 2025-12-28
+---
+
+Dedicated to my dear friend, Carlos Rodríguez.
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+
+piedra angular sin esquinas
+tu videncia es abundante
+    y de color azul:
+
+en tierras lejanas desmigajaste
+la esencia de un reino podrido;
+    eres cierto, tenaz,
+    y súmamente nítido:
+
+a cuero y tezontle, vital como la ceiba 
+    hundes raíces por donde vas pisando:
+
+tuerces los manantiales enterrados 
+     de agua que mana por tu mente,
+            y que es de color azul:
+
+contra el horizonte de tu luz admiro
+   el fruto esperanzado de tus manos:
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content/posts/lena-poem/index.md

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 date: 2025-09-08
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-Dedicated to Lena. Your memory brings me peace and your spirit guides me. I love you.
+Dedicated to Lena, who passed away of old age. (I love you, darling.)
 
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content/posts/occidental-poem/index.md

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 date: 2025-04-30
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-Regards knowledge as existent in an equal capacity as its object(s). 
+Failed attempt at processing a concept that I still can't quite explain.
 
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content/posts/sugerencias-poem/index.md

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 date: 2025-10-13
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-Abstraction about the ephemerality of transition within eternity, grounded in concrete elements.
+Mostly nonsense.
 
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content/posts/tabachin-poem/index.md

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 date: 2025-12-19
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-n/a
+Dedicated to a person-like concept I considered while meditating as a recipient to feelings of love.
 
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