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What’s truly most likely to happen if you put it off, which is that you’ll never get around to sending that message.

This philosophy, which he shares on a micro level (individuals) and macro level (brands/organizations), focuses on getting concrete, measurable results in order to create what he calls a “reality shift.”

Beneath that is a rocky seafloor, which may be teeming with hydrothermal vents and bizarre otherworldly organisms. So the next time you’re in airport security and frustrated…

The things you say often don’t stick, and the few things that do stick are often distorted.

More different lifestyles are represented to us daily, televisually than to any previous group of people, and actual jobs are more specialized.

Even the dignitaries of the Church in the middle ages kept fools to make them laugh—or to laugh at them.

In group celebrations we find exuberance differently. A love of festivities is universal, observed William James, and in many respects celebration is yet another form of human play.

—Thomas Merton I highly recommend this article on The Improvement Illusion by Justin Murphy.

much here is beautiful, dream like vistas reminding me of home

All of this is part of a shared space, it is what we call the zeitgeist, the spirit of the time, which is also what we express ourselves through.

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life, it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat.

And if they’re driving slow, it’s because they’re transporting a large cake.

Here you’ll find online essays on counterculture, pleasure, beauty, pre-state societies, love, cults, and individualism.

A sort of jellyfish glistening in the abysses of consciousness…

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

An answer to the sterile ends of pure utility and the cold-heartedness of a survival mindset.

In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving. What is giving?

I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about “teaching you how to think” is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea:

Now Greif does not grieve as much as I about the warning sign he nailed onto the hedonist storeroom of memories that live rent-free in my mind. He insists this habit of happiness-by-experience results in “a life of permanent dissatisfaction and a compulsion to frenetic activity.” 

Our lives are made up of so many people who become parts of our lives and like lines from your favorite book, some parts of them remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have noContinue reading “The past woven into the present”

Pure thinking is a phantom.

Despite an extensive search, not a single trace of the crew nor the plane nor the cores has ever been found.

In the days after, Soviet scientists’ reports detailed the impact of the nuclear blast on everything: vegetation, animals, shelters, vehicles, houses. And a small part on human lives.

Since when does aesthetic consideration take precedence over realistic observations? Well, since Whistler. He painted the commonplace with mood, color, and form.

Swim naked in the local lake with Oak Ridge native Megan Fox, the mist caressing both of their faces would be radioactive. 

It’s January 25, 1995 and you’re President Boris Yeltsin activating the “nuclear briefcase”.

And they are right, I think. We all hate home And having to be there.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time.

Don’t brag about morals until you have money to fund your temptations.

And when I revise, I’m writing, aren’t I?

This time, I was at a corner table at Pasta Vivace! on that side street next to the old music store.

When everyone is watched, every behavior becomes dangerous.

Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.

It’s an entirely new situation, emerging from the physical possibilities that will face any species that can overcome the natural interstellar quarantine of its solar system.

Epitaph to a bag with a face.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Pythagoras vs. beans and Hepatia vs oyster shells.

Is it hot in here or is there another wildfire? Links to articles about wildfires, climate change, environmental alarmism, and cattle.

This week’s links on creativity, social media, distractions, tips on writing and drawing, art, Lady Lilith, and Max Ernst. PLUS! Unusual inspiration for unusual times.

This week’s links on the secret wanderings of 900 cats, saving like a pessimist, observing the toxic clouds from fire and rockets, and plants!

The Sunday Showcase, not to be confused with “The Sunday Scaries”, literally zooms in on a piece of artwork and shares videos and/or quotes from the artist.

This week’s links on the causal relationship between Vitamin D + COVID-19, the vaccine-autism myth,+ PBA cards!

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It’s harvest and I ask for more time without pressure.

And some things have the nerve to be getting started…

What is the cost of lies?

This is the first “interview” (it’s very short, only a few quotes from each conversation) with friends and family members who are Deaf. My 25 year-old brother, Yordi, is using photography as a way to escape from his three other roommates, not counting the kitten and the Dalmatian, all of which are Deaf, except forContinue reading “Yordi As Seen By Yordi: #1 in an interview series”

What I love about you is blue.

Whether the weather weathers the whether.

Skill is insulation that wraps neural circuits in reponses to certain signals.

Between scientific conferences, universities, and the homes of colleagues all over the world.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry.

The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), 1946 Oil on Canvas, 89.5 x 119.5 cm (35 1/4 x 47 in.) Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

Even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious.

Charles Bukowski didn’t say you should find what you love and let it kill you.

Categorize to save yourself.

Become it first.

All of life is practice.

A data pitstop on the way to China.

Change the conversation and you control the brand.

Place yourself in circumstances of want, and ask yourself, “is this what I fear?

Ending the dual-currency system is expected to lead to the eventual removal of subsidies and bankruptcy.

San Juan, Puerto Rico.

You were on your own.

You’re never at the beginning of some event.

Nothing is known of attempts to recover the nuclear weapon and presumably it is still in the ocean.

…not until 1949 that decrypted cables from the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS)’s “Venona” project revealed Fuchs was a Soviet spy.

Those in paradise were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

It’s called modelling.

We think we can see space.

But these movies built a generation of men who are now in their 30s and 40s.

“I make a sketch of the person” said Mr. K., “and make sure that one comes to resemble the other.”

So preoccupied your body starts accumulating bruises, scratches, sprains.

I came to bring this song / From the crystal tears.

Perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better.

Babies are not blobs, but true scientists.

An uprising of octopi.

Beyond criticism.

A long life spent in a miserable way.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Life is a condition.

Forget about forgetting.

Bigger, funnier, sexier than ever.

Seek out some simple and true feeling.

How come you don’t understand that this is

“A new background created without hope or joy, without feeling of permanence or without a conviction of its rightness. But inevitably beautiful.” June 1936, Anais Nin

Un padre con su hijo.

Start drinking. Daydream about your death.

Whatever and whoever.

A link to Tversky and Kahneman.

Sharing is caring.

I had consumed and then I created, or rather, I had chewed something up and spat it out.

I thought about what you said regarding the men/being women thing.

It’s within your capacity to ask yourself what you think and what you know.

Biometrics and boredom.

Writer, poseur, mama’s boy, and tips on how to woo him.