The depravity of a few aberrant souls is not indicative of the global human state. Most of us, when not coerced by this misrepresentation, are capable of reason and compassion. Dealing swiftly and sufficiently with injustice is no more or less important than retaining positive interactions with others.

Listening to the music that freely and fervently flowed after relocating to Portland: everything I had and have set so sensibly into emotive lines of melody. One day until we move to our house, that is our house. It's easy to see just how lost I have been since moving into this, the second rental we occupied. 6 months of work and tire, drink and ( Read more... )

There are certain works of music that consistently, predictably, bring me to tears. Each time the feeling begins before the music starts. It is known, what is going to happen, and it is know that it cannot be stopped. At first, the feeling is shame, that I can still be affected as such. This movement may rather be, one of the things at age 35, ( Read more... )

Trekked across the broken shores of Lake Michigan today, at first irate by the litter left everpresent thanks to inconsiderate Chicagoans. Glory in large bodies of water seems automatic, as depravity in humanity seems the same. This is a falsehood though, brought on by an irritating contempt for unnatural environments. This opinion is no more ( Read more... )

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So, the big problem with keeping it real from the inside, is walking a journey of a million miles one pretentious rock stiff Italian leather step at a time.  I can tell you, having been in a van filled with drugs and drug dealers, and having eaten at the finest stratospherically overelaborate food venues on a golden company dime - that the prior is ( Read more... )

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