"live like we're dying" popular subject song and an interesting subject - It seems to me you have two choices. First, spend the time left to you trying to get or do things for you. Second, spend the time you have left trying to make sure you leave the world and people you encounter better for your having been there ( Read more... )

The Twitter general posting, where you get little snapshots of what everybody is posting, is interesting. I had seen an editorial about it a little while back, Twitter I mean, and the writer referred to it as a 'Stream of Conciseness' for a part of humanity. That made me curious so I did a little looking. The estimated figures seem to be about 6 to ( Read more... )

I think I shall try to start writing again.

How does one express the 'rightness' of possessing a clock that ticks aloud. The measured increments of lost time while the eyes are held by another promise that fades into the dark. The tick that echoes loudly in that time of night when all that remains is to stare as the false dawn comes and goes along the eastern horizon. A rightness that forces ( Read more... )

the mind turns to lots of things at 3AM when can't sleep ( Read more... )

The sounds of late night
the thoughts of late night
that over tired discontent spiced with a dash of restlessness
the simmering disquiet continually pushed away
oh for the abrupt appearance of a yawn
for would infer the curtain is about to come down

is not so much a desire to write as picking things out from past hand written words to toss free on the electronic winds . . I doubt not the urge shall soon abate

As long and hard as you may work on seeing your truth. As clearly and in great detail as you see the aspects of it. You still are limited by your own vision. To gain more knowledge you must see it in the light of another understanding. Multiple light sources always illuminate more sides then a single point of light.

why is it - so often the person who bemoans the lack of a friend - talking real friend you can talk to kind of friend - is so often the same person that works so hard to close others out or has no time to be a friend. How many times is the lack of a real friend not finding one and how many is not being one.

re earlier comment . . that was not to say that the consequences of karma are the unpleasant things that occur. As with the comment that followed, it is not that simple and bad undeserved things do happen. And yet it is also true we bring a lot of it upon ourselves.