Self doubt is the weirdest thing in the human brain. When you get down to it, self doubt is YOU thinking that YOU can’t do something and then telling YOURSELF that YOU aren’t any damn good while telling YOURSELF that […]
Author: todd
Word Wednesday, January 19
There’s still approximately 15 minutes left to Word Wednesday here in Eastern Standard Time, so here’s one from 2021 that hasn’t been revised at all and, in fact, hadn’t been read since it was typed into the magic poem machine […]
Choices
This quote is hitting me pretty hard this morning… “The world contains far more information than any single person can learn in their lifetime. The question is not whether you are ignorant, but what you choose to be ignorant about. […]
poison parrots
words are slippery things, meanings & inference & subtlety all lost in a blink – twisted, turned, maimed, & unrecognizable in the wrong hands. each year, i read the words of a peacemaker & lover of justice perverted & prostituted […]
Ill(usions) Communication
It’s been my dream to somehow work a Beastie Boys reference into a blog title and I’m here today to tell y’all that dreams really do come true. Even if it’s here on the interwebs where everything is either fake, […]
Just An Event
I’m a sucker for a good story, which is probably why I keep stumbling across this video and also relating the story myself. However, this time around, something else stuck out to me. Hearing Herbie Hancock tell that story never […]
The Friday Five – July 2, 2021
Needless to say, I’m still getting into the swing of living in a different place for the first time in almost seventeen years and doing it out of a suitcase. Not that it’s some kind of unbearable hardship (because it’s […]
Aaaaaaand We’re Back… Again
While I don’t want to turn my little enclave on the information super highway into some life hack blog, it seems that advice is something I’m ready to hand out lately. After all, about a week and a half ago […]
My Favorite Spot
Four more days in this house. I’m not necessarily trying to be nostalgic so much as trying to remember what day it is. Okay, so that’s a bit of shrugging off emotion as a joke, but it’s worked for 45 […]
Don’t Move
If you’ve been living in a place for over 15 years, past the age of 40, and have this sudden idea of moving, allow me to give you a small bit of advice. Don’t. Make peace with your life as […]