Oo, I think I've solved a big one:  The age-old problem (to me) of needing three very specific things from my personal organization software* and process/system, and having them be VERY hard to get in ways that don't interfere with or ruin each other.

(*not that personal org should or must be done with software, but it's inevitable that at ( Read more... )

Most of my life, I was a slave to my mind, and if you'd asked me I would have said straight-faced that the whole useful world was inside it; a straight-up victim of stockholm syndrome of the brain. Held and tortured and unable to even think of another reality.

Here's what I've learned: The body is a violin that responds exquisitely to ( Read more... )

Who are you?  How do you want to live?  Do you want to settle down or see the world?  Raise kids or stay in college forever?  Write books or become a CEO or earn your place as a pillar of your community…?

If you find somebody who thinks you're The Specialest Favorite, how far will you change to suit their lifestyle so that you can live together ( Read more... )

This topic has been on my mind a lot lately for…various reasons, we'll say.  For background, I myself am a smart person (we can define that later if you like, but if you care about definitions then you're probably smart enough to qualify ;), and I'm pretty sure I've had every single self-esteem problem in the book, or damn close.  I've crawled my ( Read more... )

I love that look you get when I've really crossed a line.  I love how your eyes go wide and how your breath catches for a moment.  Sometimes you muster, and give me a wry smile or shake your head; but sometimes I manage to stop you completely, make you mutter into your beer-glass and blush.

I confess, I kind of live for those moments.  They're ( Read more... )

This, I think, falls under "Blogging nobody wants to read" - Sometimes I wake up and I'm not sure what to think, what to do, and then I sit down and write for a while and EUREKA, I HAVE IT!.  That's what happened today, and though I'm sure no-one probably cares about the process, I can't just throw that writing away…that would be like painstakingly ( Read more... )

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It’s not that the logic wasn’t sound.

It’s not that the break from dogmatic bickering and silly literalism wasn’t nice.

It’s not that I wasn’t cool with being a religious minority (I still am one, unless you live somewhere that’s flooded with Chan Buddhists I guess).

BUT.

I saw this and thought, “Yeah, that’s part of why.”

Hey, I bore easily.  ;)


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The point of living is to be awake for it.

That’s true no matter what the Big Picture turns out to be - we could reincarnate; we could all be dreaming right now; we could be a biological accident that disappears with the death of our physical bodies - it doesn’t matter.  Any way you look at it, life is pointless if you’re not paying attention.

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