Binned the lot.
Cleaning off the desktop and throwing away old Word files, journal fodder or entries I’d started but abandoned due to losing the thread, the thought, the steam - or realizing it’s total bullshit. Or said much better elsewhere.
And all these icons are getting in the way of my Cate Blanchett wallpaper.
If this entry was paper, you’d’ve found it balled up by the wastebasket and opened it up, hoping it was the directions-to-the-party paper you’ve misplaced.
Could be some good. “One man’s trash…”
(Hell, did I post some of these? It’s beginning to get away from me.)
1. Steven Kotler, West of Jesus
Endorphins present during mystical experience;
Aye, because the body must be involved in it.
Pilgrimage, trek, ordeal, training.
2. Acting in certainty is comfort.
Acting with uncertainty is courage.
Keys to successful execution:
Careful forethought.
“Act quickly, think slowly.”
3. Impressions of Vegas.
A grasshopper in the morning-empty food court.
“What are you doing here, friend? You should be in the desert,” I say to the locust.
“This is the desert,” says Kevin.
The desert, paved.
The Excalibur. An opportunity to recreate one of the richest mythologies. “What the fuck is that? It’s a big It’s A Small World, that’s what that is.”
At 0630, there are people at the tables. People at the bars. A goodly amount of people walking the strip. A Starbucks coffeeshop. No surprise.
$2.50 for a cup of coffee that costs $1.45?
Nickle and dimed.
Fremont Street, the original strip, has “The Fremont Street Experience.” They’ve put an arch over a football field length or so, and it becomes a huge television featuring shots of women, poker chips, drinks being poured, etc.
Poker chips at Texas Hold ‘Em.
Bear hunting and missing “Don’t come here for the hunting.”
Monkey and the cue ball
Kevin’s initiate task lessons:
Don’t sweat small stuff
Check your teammates
Stay sharp
4. In defense of alarmism.
Hold up; here’s a definition:
alarmist
noun
someone who is considered to be exaggerating a danger and so causing needless worry or panic.
adjective
creating needless worry or panic
and here’s the base word:
alarm
noun
an anxious awareness of danger
• [in sing. ] a warning of danger.
• a warning sound or device : a burglar alarm.
• an alarm clock.
verb
1 [ trans. ] cause (someone) to feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger
2 (be alarmed) be fitted or protected with an alarm
ORIGIN late Middle English (as an exclamation meaning [to arms!] ): from Old French alarme, from Italian allarme, from all' arme! ‘to arms!’
So wait: what do you call someone who warns you of the possibility of real danger?
5. From Secrets Before Your Eyes.
The Truth is here right now.
The Truth is speakable at this very moment.
Heaven is right now.
Hell smoulders this moment.
You think that spirituality starts at the point of your death?
You think that spirituality is happening only on a mountaintop peopled by exotic-looking beings?
Your spiritual advisor will speak the truth to you during the course of the day.
He holds nothing back when you are ready to hear.
No secrets,
no having to pass tests
or banging on a skull drum.
When calamity strikes, your spiritual advisor falls mute.
She is simply there.
She stays out of your way, yet is close.
She cooks a meal, and sets the table before you.
If you cannot eat, the food sits, and is eventually cleared away. The table is set until you are ready to eat.
Should you need embrace, he embraces without word.
Should you need words, he lets them fall softly and sparingly, knowing the nature of the healing of wounds.
And all these icons are getting in the way of my Cate Blanchett wallpaper.
If this entry was paper, you’d’ve found it balled up by the wastebasket and opened it up, hoping it was the directions-to-the-party paper you’ve misplaced.
Could be some good. “One man’s trash…”
(Hell, did I post some of these? It’s beginning to get away from me.)
1. Steven Kotler, West of Jesus
Endorphins present during mystical experience;
Aye, because the body must be involved in it.
Pilgrimage, trek, ordeal, training.
2. Acting in certainty is comfort.
Acting with uncertainty is courage.
Keys to successful execution:
Careful forethought.
“Act quickly, think slowly.”
3. Impressions of Vegas.
A grasshopper in the morning-empty food court.
“What are you doing here, friend? You should be in the desert,” I say to the locust.
“This is the desert,” says Kevin.
The desert, paved.
The Excalibur. An opportunity to recreate one of the richest mythologies. “What the fuck is that? It’s a big It’s A Small World, that’s what that is.”
At 0630, there are people at the tables. People at the bars. A goodly amount of people walking the strip. A Starbucks coffeeshop. No surprise.
$2.50 for a cup of coffee that costs $1.45?
Nickle and dimed.
Fremont Street, the original strip, has “The Fremont Street Experience.” They’ve put an arch over a football field length or so, and it becomes a huge television featuring shots of women, poker chips, drinks being poured, etc.
Poker chips at Texas Hold ‘Em.
Bear hunting and missing “Don’t come here for the hunting.”
Monkey and the cue ball
Kevin’s initiate task lessons:
Don’t sweat small stuff
Check your teammates
Stay sharp
4. In defense of alarmism.
Hold up; here’s a definition:
alarmist
noun
someone who is considered to be exaggerating a danger and so causing needless worry or panic.
adjective
creating needless worry or panic
and here’s the base word:
alarm
noun
an anxious awareness of danger
• [in sing. ] a warning of danger.
• a warning sound or device : a burglar alarm.
• an alarm clock.
verb
1 [ trans. ] cause (someone) to feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger
2 (be alarmed) be fitted or protected with an alarm
ORIGIN late Middle English (as an exclamation meaning [to arms!] ): from Old French alarme, from Italian allarme, from all' arme! ‘to arms!’
So wait: what do you call someone who warns you of the possibility of real danger?
5. From Secrets Before Your Eyes.
The Truth is here right now.
The Truth is speakable at this very moment.
Heaven is right now.
Hell smoulders this moment.
You think that spirituality starts at the point of your death?
You think that spirituality is happening only on a mountaintop peopled by exotic-looking beings?
Your spiritual advisor will speak the truth to you during the course of the day.
He holds nothing back when you are ready to hear.
No secrets,
no having to pass tests
or banging on a skull drum.
When calamity strikes, your spiritual advisor falls mute.
She is simply there.
She stays out of your way, yet is close.
She cooks a meal, and sets the table before you.
If you cannot eat, the food sits, and is eventually cleared away. The table is set until you are ready to eat.
Should you need embrace, he embraces without word.
Should you need words, he lets them fall softly and sparingly, knowing the nature of the healing of wounds.