Experiences are bound by the same metaphysical tragedy with which we cope, life and death. Forgetting is a small death ( Read more... )

Don't dwell
Just take everything and everyone with you.

You’re not a writer, you’re not a poet-you’re a speaker of truth. You aren’t filling an occupation, but instead something a little boy promised himself decades ago. Examining the world for what it is, and not just to know it, but to say it. A thousand, thousand lifetimes and there’s still something original to be had, still truth to uncover. And ( Read more... )

Years of experience
I got damn good at doing things
But lost direction

Dont be a stereotype, be an archetype.
A part of a person's psyche that they admire and long for
and can rarely gain access to
but that you unlock.

You're their key to finding themselves.

This will be revised, over time.

Definitive favorite albums of all time.
- Matthew Herbert - Scales
- Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht
- M.A.N.D.Y - Body Language Vol 2.
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- Black Eyes - Self Titled

Theorists note that whenever we communicate there are really at least six "people" involved: 1) who you think you are; 2) who you think the other person is; 3) who you think the other person thinks you are; 4) who the other person thinks s/he is; 5) who the other person thinks you are; and 6) who the other person thinks you think s/he is.

-Donnell

"My favorite metaphor these days is the 'fame in the brain' or 'cerebral celebrity theory', that is what consciousness is, is the relative political influence or fame of structures in the brain that win out in competition with rival structures for domination of the brain's activities in various ways."

-Dan Dennet
Professor of Philosophy, Carnegie

When it really boils down to it, if you think about all the friends you have now or have ever had, when you really widdle the list down, only one or two or three could ever really affect you. The rest; they knew you, they might have even been your best friends, dated you, married you, but they were just surrogates. They were just there to take the ( Read more... )

Getting past the first ninety percent isn't so difficult, But the next nine takes all of you. And that last one, won't ever come except to the lucky or privileged.