It doesn't happen often, but world, look out. My competitiveness has been provoked ( Read more... )

I dreamt of Stream last night ( Read more... )

I happened to pick up a magazine off the staff table at work today. A relatively recent issue of New Scientist. A random article caught my eye, and I flipped forward. There in clear text was the current story of Stream's great project. I had to stop and think for a minute ( Read more... )

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep when our beds are burning

I got caught up in music and lyrics last night. Singing and researching. And I was reminded of a few things.

Take all the trouble that you can afford
At least you won't have time to be boredThat fight and focus that I have, the drive to change things. To catalyse ( Read more... )

I was talking with Fred and song_gatherer last night. They asked about Stream, and I told them what I'd decided recently - to opt for no contact. To simply fade out. It's not going to get me in in any of the directions I wanted to go, and it takes energy I don't want to spend. For three and a half weeks out of four. But for four or five days out of every cycle ( Read more... )

I seem to be picking up resonant novels lately, which I presume is accidentally-on-purpose as far as my subconscious goes. First there was Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey, which had some very familiar dynamics in it to do with wanting to do the things that please someone, even while you maintain an apparently completely individual sense of self. And ( Read more... )

I believe that we create the experiences that come to us, and that to a certain degree we create the people we interact with. Not by making them, and only a little by our perceptions of them. More, it's by attracting to ourselves, and being attracted to, the people that will bring us the experiences we're subconsciously trying to create. Which ( Read more... )

ebonhippy made a good point in a comment on Doz' journal. He said that I needed someone to fight against, to know what I was fighting for/to be. (That's a relatively inept paraphrasing.) It got me thinking ( Read more... )

-bursts out laughing ( Read more... )

This post was originally drafted on February 13th, but for various reasons I didn't get back to finishing and posting it until now ( Read more... )