This sentence just came to me: "I prefer to think in writing, and I prefer to write in public."

Thinking in writing and writing in public makes my thinking better.

I know that "public" implies an anonymous, general public. Just anyone who might happen along the street, it doesn't matter who. But I don't feel it that way. Especially when I write ( Read more... )

I am going to write this here. I am going to write this now.

I am going to write this here and now, and see what happens, and then decide what to do next. This is an experiment in causality.

I could think more about it first; think about who owns this platform, where the servers are located, who reads these blogs, who benefits from content posted ( Read more... )

Needs have to be met. That's what "needs" means. I needed a setting and couldn't use the one I had. So I had to leave.

The electrification of the Tom Sachs, my camperized delivery van, was finished. The cargo bays were stocked, and the solar panels were clean. The Winnebago drop-trailer, Intrepid, was packed and ready. It was time to go.

My ( Read more... )

Furi Curi, is, curiously, pronounced Fooly Cooly. And equally curiously, abbreviated FLCL. It is a three-season anime program produced by three anime studios including Production I.G. and Gainax. Production I.G. was a partner in Ghost in the Shell.

I started watching FLCL because it YouTube promoted a clip of the show to me where one of the ( Read more... )

The January 2001 Harvard Business Review published the article, Strategy as Simple Rules. Simple rules that are always in effect, allow individuals and organizations to survive and prosper in chaotic circumstances in the absence of centralized direction.

I am thinking about simple rules because the Consulate is better this afternoon; tidier. More ( Read more... )

This month, January 2021, will be the third anniversary of our trip to Calgary to venerate Saint Francis Xavier's severed arm. Over the course of 2018, the St. Francis Xavier Canadian Relic Pilgrimage saw the saint's arm fly in its own Air Canada seat, to fourteen cities across the country.

Francis was a University of Paris student in 1525 and was ( Read more... )

The hypothesis that dreaming is an important feature of mental health seems reasonable to me, and I trust the science that says everyone does it even if they do not remember doing so. It has been a long time since I can remember dreaming. Perhaps my night-time habits reduce dream frequency or they eliminate my ability to remember them, but I hardly ( Read more... )

It is December 19th, 2020. I have to check the number of lock-down days since March 15th. It is a Saturday which is, by the calendars I subscribe to, the last day of the week. It is Saturn's Day, named for the Titan who ate his children. Francisco Goya's 1823 painting, Saturn Devouring His Son, comes to mind. It is the day best suited day of the ( Read more... )

2020 is close.

I can't put a pin in the moment when the idea came to me, in the darkness of a 2019 night, that we could all be united in love for God.

I do remember that it was 2014 when I noticed the God-shaped hole in my life. It was after my second or third viewing of Christopher Nolan's, Interstellar, and I heard myself describing the movie ( Read more... )

A little strangely, Flo does not seem to appear as a character in the old ERC/CEBA stories (Environmental Resource Centre/Centre for Environmental Business and Advocacy) of this blog. She was a pillar of the the organizations that made those places go. A book-keeper by trade, and Treasurer of the Tomorrow Foundation for a Sustainable Future for ( Read more... )