I am beginning to see that many of the theories I’ve wildly hypothesized to myself over the past months - those which I have nearly come to live by, to wake up to each morning and fall asleep with each night - those that all my other goals and passions orbit around, ideas whose truth I would pursue even if just to discover in the end their calling ( Read more... )

On my walk tonight, I noticed a person moving toward the open side door of the B’nai Jeshuran Temple. Slowly transformed by the light, the figure changed from a shadow to an elderly woman. I followed the spill of light along the building’s edifice to its huge panes of stained glass, laced with a red so deep it gave the illusion of blood - which ( Read more... )

I need to clean my room ( Read more... )

I fear the reduction of my life into work. It is simple work and it is that about it which bothers me I think. Yes, the hardest part about my work is its simplicity ( Read more... )

I rarely do this, but it's a more full version of the second sentiment that's killing my brain ( Read more... )

I'm worried about the words that are stuck in my head. There are three sentences in particular that worry me. It is this third grouping of words which follow the sentiments of their preceding incessant utterances that worry me most. This in part because they are the third incarnation of this haunting (and by then, it is a possession) and also ( Read more... )

I think I'll determine my success in life by how much food I can afford to order at an Indian restaurant. If I can start with a mango lassi, upgrade from chicken to lamb for the main dish, and get garlic naan PLUS tabuli naan for dessert, I will consider myself to be at ideal financial stability.

I may have been wrong about dominance. It isn't that dominance is wrong.
Dominant and recessive characterize most representations of life. (Few things are perfectly balanced.)

But it must be a cycle. A person is not to be dominant in all situations. Rather, it is an allowance of one's natural abilities to come forth in any given situation.

Perceptionless as they were free
Pressed now,
Landed from flight.
Imprisoned to their fight

Banal - so lacking in originality as to be obvious or boring ( Read more... )