I did many things, including making posts here to my journal, for reasons due to seeking approval or reassurance in times past. As I've slowly moved past that, I've neglected posting in it, since my original reason for doing so was now irrelevant. Now, I'm going to post because I want to, and because I have something to say - not to vent, and not ( Read more... )

I made a post about "running" a while ago. It was meant as a reminder to myself to not think lazily, to not blind myself to anything within me, and treat each breath as its own universe. To not let self-doubt or fear control my actions any longer ( Read more... )

Uncertainty is what confounds the best-laid plans and upsets the most flat-lining situations being taken for granted. How do you act when someone or something you care about has something serious happen ( Read more... )

No more running.

I read an interesting perspective about time from the book Dinotopia: "Your culture views time as nothing more than a straight line. Your more Eastern brothers and sisters view time as a circle. In our view, we look at it as both. Time, as they say, is a helix - things move forward and progress, but history always repeats ( Read more... )

So, as it's been a while since I last sat down and self-reflected (that's amusing to think of by itself), here I now sit - my Yerba Mate tea steaming to my right, my aging but still reliable and slick laptop in front of me, incense burning ten feet to my left, and a cooling breeze made by the fan above me. I am grateful for all of them ( Read more... )

Over the ages you have followed objects,
Never once turning back to look within.
Time slips away;
Months and years are wasted.

- Kuei-Shan (771-854)

Car is now rescued, and I made sure to familiarize myself with basic parts of the car ( Read more... )

I feel elated ( Read more... )

A friend of mine on a forum I frequent posted this article, and his commentary afterward. The article is good - the commentary is better. First, the article.

( The original article, entitled Clinton's Spin Machine: Spun Dry )