Doesn’t everyone have a favorite tree? Probably not, so I won’t bother waiting for your answer. Once again, this one is straight outta the journal with the absolute minimum of editing. ain’t it a pity? they’ve cut down my favorite […]
Why Does Blogging Suck THIS Much?
I don’t know. I wish I knew, but I don’t. So let’s work through this together, okay? So yeah, another attempt at being a regular blogger. In a world where the attention span of the average human being hovers somewhere […]
Staying Out Of The Trap
I read this post from Paul Graham about what we keep at the top of our minds earlier this week (via the Tim Ferriss weekly newsletter) and have been thinking about it off and on ever since. The way our […]
Word Wednesday – May 31, 2022
Something I wrote a few months ago and hadn’t looked back on until today. As per usual, this is unedited and pretty much how it was scrawled in my journal. want what is it to want? to have this amnesia […]
Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Gym Rat
I’ve never really enjoyed going to the gym or made it that much of a habit in my life. When the gym teacher turned us loose in the weight room, I’d fool around on the leg press machine because I […]
Not Today (Or This Week)
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 […]
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, […]