Everything fixed is marred

Writing about not being able to

Had dinner with some friends the other night. Told them they might not see me for awhile, that I was making a big push, that I needed to get this thing out of me, that it was the only way I could move on. Spent the last couple of days

Are you anyone without others?

The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?” From a Zero K, a novel by Don DeLillo

Money money money, money

Just finished reading “Stop Asking Whether Money Buys Happiness” by Michael Mechanic, writing for The Atlantic; from the article: For more than a half century, researchers at UCLA have conducted a massive annual survey of incoming college students titled “The American Freshman: National Norms.” One part of the survey asks

Move through the world despite the chaos

Calm down, don’t judge, accept people for what they are, get control of your own reactions, and move through the world despite the chaos of it. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist Note: The quote was transcribed from “Adapting To Change In An Accelerating World”, a conversation between Haidt and

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If there’s no hope of redemption, why bother paying any attention to the hellfire preacher, his crooked finger pointed straight at you?

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