* Enjoy life: your own and life, all life, in general. Embrace living ( Read more... )

I sent this note to the Austin-based duo Beat Root Revival to-day after their performance last night opening for the Brian Setzer Orchestra ( Read more... )

The fragility and wonderfulness of life has become much more apparent to me in 2016 than ever. So many great people have died this year...and there are so many threats to life on this planet that have arose and will grow stronger in coming years ( Read more... )

I noticed my hardcopy journal (Anything Book, brown "executive" leather cover) is soon to end. This is the last of the Anything Books I bought in Garden City Kansas in late 1991 ( Read more... )

I woke about an hour earlier than I should have this morning. Couldn't sleep. My mind was buzzing with questions about living and success...and if it was possible for anyone to live a happy fulfilling life from birth to death...and if so, what makes that possible ( Read more... )

This morning and the previous morning I had dreams unlike others I have had. Why I have them now, I don't know, but somehow they mark a pivotal moment in my life ( Read more... )

Glad to be back from Eugene. I returned a day early because two of the events scheduled by the University of Oregon Department of Computer and Information Sciences did not happen. Whether or not the other three events were going to happen I don't know. I feel like I was stood up for a date twice in a row. I did go to the first event on Thursday ( Read more... )

You may have seen the trailer for a new Jim Carrey movie about a guy who says no to everything...and his life is "no where". Then he starts saying yes to everything and his life expands and changes in unpredictable and apparently joyous ways. That is, at least, the impression I get from the trailer ( Read more... )