I got my first of two corona virus shots yesterday. I originally meant to get it on February 17th, but Mother Nature and two back-to-back winter storms (gee, thanks, Shirley and Uri) planned otherwise. It was the Pfizer dose, and I'll have to go back for the booster in a... Continue reading

"To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns ...." The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare, Act III, Scene I Continue reading

America: A Nation of Poorly Behaved Children “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” ~ Socrates Continue reading

A couple years ago, maybe even as many as three years ago, I had lunch with a friend. She expressed concern that I was pushing myself too hard. She said to me, "If you don't give yourself some time, your body will make you take it." She was telling me... Continue reading

Honorary entry from 1/17/20: This writing actually was penned by me back in 2016 -- August 12, 2016 -- and it rings still quite close to home, although I have far more hope (and a plan) now than I did then. Things still seem badly wonky, very "out of true."... Continue reading

Honorary entry from 1/10/20: I left a hectic wet place to arrive in a dry expansive one. And where the sun extended and the wind refreshed, I could see myself remaining there, waking up at home. Continue reading

Update and errant thought: In the spirit of New Decade, New Me -- and channeling Opposite George (amusing Seinfeld reference) -- perhaps I will try embracing this mindset for a bit. "What's the worst that could happen?" Gulp. Continue reading

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart: The effect doth operate another way." ~ Troilus, from the Shakespearean play, "Troilus and Cressida" Continue reading

"It could be me, who's to blame. I think I need a lick of paint." ~ from the song by Frightened Rabbit Continue reading

Sharing more greatness and prescience that was Carl Sagan: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too... Continue reading

In some more perfect universe, I'm a better Saganist. For today, in this universe, I channel him better. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan Continue reading

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ~ Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" Continue reading

Sometimes I stumble across a memory, and it's like clobbering my shin on a coffee table. I may have lived my life, vividly and overblown for much of the time, yet that is not insurance that all the memories are indelibly fired into the coils of my brain. Sometimes a... Continue reading

“After an endless, brain-suffocating procession of days where I could not see past the day’s end and its sinking sun, and wanting nothing more than to never see it come up again, to not have to do any of *this* anymore ... to now be able to again imagine a future and re-inhabit my own skin, to see far enough to dream again, and hope, and have this turnaround come in less than a year and a day … it’s the closest thing to a miracle* I have ever known.” ~ EveDestiny Continue reading

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.” ― Anne Rice Continue reading

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” ~ Federico Fellini Continue reading

The problem is the PRICE, not the PERFORMANCE. Continue reading

After ruminating once again on the dark joy that is everything Rust Cohle said in "True Detective" (Season One, which is the only season in my opinion), I stumbled across Thomas Ligotti, who wrote "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race." One quote from Ligotti rang especially pure and high painful... Continue reading

Why all the pithy sayings about Spring Cleaning? New Year's is where the purging is at in my world. I seem to spend a measure of each new year cleaning: cleaning projects, clearing decks, making space, be it email inboxes or piled up papers or follows on Twitter, and this... Continue reading

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” ― Kiran Desai, "The Inheritance of Loss" Continue reading

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Continue reading

“You can, you should, and if you are brave enough to start, you will.” ~ Stephen King Continue reading

In for a penny, in for a pound, or What We Carry (And How We Carry It) Defines Us. Continue reading

I've begun a long-overdue experiment at work: the standing desk. So far, my back thanks me. My feet, not so much. But a cushiony pad should help, and standing in bursts will likely help take my ample load off my aching arches. Continue reading