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Beard questions.
I'm sure I have more than a few friends who have beards, and might be able to advise me. Some of their beards are older than I am, which for some reason delights me ( Read more... ) -
Out, damned Spot.
I'll get myself a dog, I said. It'll help with my sense of isolation; I'll be less lonely, and maybe get out of the house more often ( Read more... ) -
Buddhist Anarchism
I stumbled upon an interesting phrase today: buddhist anarchism. I like the definition, but not one of the supporting examples from Gary Snyder, which I thought missed the point. (And also, is best read by following the cut rather than going to the site; the colors are terrible.) To be fair, it was written in the 1960s; but the sentiments seem to ( Read more... ) -
From Ambrose Bierce
The Tail of the Sphinx
A dog of a taciturn disposition said to his Tail:
"Whenever I am angry, you rise and bristle; when I am pleased, you wag; when I am alarmed, you tuck yourself in out of danger. You are too mercurial - you disclose all my emotions. My notion is that tails are given to conceal thought. It is my dearest ambition to be as ( Read more... ) -
Yep. Alive.
Wow, it's been a long, dark road. I haven't blogged here, or much of anywhere, in more than a year. I've been ... let's see, depressed, sick, drugged, sick, hospitalized, differently drugged, tired, blind, different drugs again but still depressed, cold, tired and cold, warm but lonely, cold, then finally warmer with my brain back with interspersed ( Read more... ) -
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Saturday night Dad (malixe) and I were driving on the freeway as an obviously young man on a crotch-rocket bike comes zooming in fast, in what sounded like an awfully low gear for freeway speeds. Weird, I thought for a moment, until he poped up vertically and wobbled there for a bit. Eek ( Read more... ) -
Super heroes
I've been thinking a lot about super heroes and super villains lately, so when I stumbled across this cartoon, I had to have a good laugh ( Read more... ) -
I forget sometimes...
It's too easy to forget and write in the journal only when things are stressful, confusing, frustrating, or sad. So this is me, remembering to write that things are Okay so far, much much better. I am getting off all the drugs that were causing problems and am still on just a few, the ones we know work ( Read more... )