PROSAIC is based on three aphorisms, the first from Friederich Nietzsche’s The Wanderer and his Shadow:

            Everyday things

            There is a feigned disrespect for all the things which men in fact take most seriously, for all the things closest to them.

The second is from the poet Jim Harrison:

               Life is only what one did every day.  

And the last from Epicurus:

            Send me a pot of cheese and I will dine sumptuously.

These three aphorisms stacked together illustrate a principle that is rarely acknowledged in conventional philosophical or moral systems – that the only valuable things in the universe are daily desires, wants and needs that are most personal to us. 

PROSAIC celebrates “all the things closest” to the individual in his/her daily life, and honors the “determiner of values.”