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Beyond simply "Not Knowing" It's CURIOSITY that makes it fun!
So this morning while langoring in bed, not knowing what the day held but not really caring either, I realized that the spark of life is 'not knowing' mixed with creativity: curiosity
if you are of the mindset that you "don't know" that's all gravy, because then you are potentially open to learning/interacting with reality/lifeeeee
and if you are ( Read more... ) -
Daniel Quinn's 'other way of thinking' seems to me to be "not knowing"
since "knowing" wasn't working for me, i tried to "know" more things as a solution.
i fell into the "more of the same" trap.
i couldn't imagine at the time that operating on a "not knowing" basis could be the solution (to my depression, to the challenges facing the world today). The solution to guilt, to the idea that i knew what i was doing and ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes Pain is Good, Stretching/Yoga, For One
short story:
i left work early yesterday (unexpectedly to my boss) and biked first to penn station where they wouldn't let me take my bike on the train b/c it was rush hour, so then biked to chinatown bus to philly to patco to free radiohead in camden at the (susqu)E(hanna) center last night, hung out with Paul DelMar & Colin & Dan Brill & Folk ( Read more... ) -
i could have just as easily sung:
Matt, you say you believe strongly in something,
but what the fuck does that belief mean
if it doesn't translate into the way that you live your life?
Matt, you say you believe strongly in something,
but what the fuck is that belief worth
if you support your life by putting your efforts behind an opposing belief?
Matt, you say you identify with a belief ( Read more... ) -
From an Email sent to my loved ones, subject: Tell me this isn't inspiring, eh?
Hello all,
So I've been writing "marketing" documents and project "proposals" (attached - please read if you like, :) and it's been super fun cause I feel like I'm writing the motivational documents needed to inspire a portion of the changes that are so badly needed.
Right now, I can't say I actually feel like doing the engineering analysis that I ( Read more... ) -
Thank you Noah Britton, :1
After another 3 hours of frustration not being able to obtain my Humira prescription drugs (since I switched insurance companies, another "Prior Authorization" for Oxford Health to approve before I can get my mediction, without which I'm now experiencing heavy symptoms from not being able to administer it for the last month... and I have health ( Read more... ) -
I played with them in practice yesterday!
and i’ll be playing with them on Wednesday at Lucky Cat at 245 Grand St, Brooklyn!
Dreams Come True!
hahahaha
See more progress on: Feeling Out of This World as I am Laughing, Dancing, Smiling, & Singing while playing music in the band, Eskalators -
Forgiveness / Renewal of the Creative Path
So there's this cultural practice from native peoples around the world that involves asking others for forgiveness and forgiving yourself for all the things you've done or haven't done, that you were aware of or not aware of, and that for whatever reason made someone else or made you feel less than totally thankful to be experiencing such an ( Read more... ) -
MOLOCH, i think we're all starting to figure you out
HOWL
for
Carl Solomon
I
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for
an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high ( Read more... ) -
Confidently Playful: A Regenerative Lifestyle
a message i sent to my family attached to an article on An Ice-Free North Pole by the End of Summer:
I'll do as best I can up here in New York (even while I wish to be closer to you & working with transitioning the culture of the Delaware Valley), but please, your help is needed now. This shit is real and is happening as we speak and you can help ( Read more... )