I want to have this conversation with you, but I can't ( Read more... )

i've jumped ship to facecrack. will still post any longer blog entries here occasionally.. but for shorter snapshots of my life & thoughts, add me at http://www.facebook.com/minae. i post longer entries there too, as Notes.

Sunning, swimming, sneaking people-watching behind sunglasses. Fake white-sand beach and fake waves, but the Nevada sun is blazing and real and reminds me of childhood ( Read more... )

"if i am i because you are you
and you are you because i am i
then i am not i
and you are not you.
but if i am i because i am i
and you are you because you are you
then i am i
and you are you
and we can talk."

thinking that: an addiction-prone personality is one that is very good at creating narrow justifications & avoiding personal responsibility.

- measured self-control. but also: the ability to release that control ( Read more... )

It's the self that blinds the self.

The birds they sang at the break of day ( Read more... )

There's a Buddhist story I read as a teen that resonates with me on many an occasion. I can't recall where I read it, but reconstructed in at least approximate form from memory, it goes something like this. (And there may be other versions ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder if people in other countries are learning English grammar from internet memes like lolcats.

I just got a piece of spam trying to get me to click on a link with this subject line: "Barack Obama can lost President's Chair".