A year and a half ago I handed the Moleskine journal that I kept on my person for flashes of writing inspiration to tesseracting, at her request. Eighteen months later there is not much else in that journal, but what she wrote remains, along with the art that her husband, gear_halo, sketched at the end ( Read more... )

"Those kinds of dreams cannot be found... You have to build them. And I promise you, your hands are still strong, and there is plenty of time."
--Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, Farscape, "Thank God It's Friday, Again" (S1E6)

On the one hand, I can completely understand the sentiment here. On the other hand, I still want to move out as soon as possible.


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"That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is or how important each moment must be, so his life never came into focus. He drifted through much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented ( Read more... )

"When you've made progress avoiding your indulgences and that little voice in your head tells you it's okay to start exposing yourself to temptation again -- ignore it."

- David DiSalvo in Scientific American Mind

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.


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One of these mornings
Won't be very long
You will look for me
And I'll be gone

Apologies for the large image. If I cut this, people would skip over it and I think it's worth reading. It certainly got me thinking. Thinking I need to do more acting.


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The biggest problem with being over-interviewed, and exhausted, and testy, and very, very tired, is you get much too honest. Journalist today, "Do you write books with fantasies because you are not happy in the real world?" Me, "Why would you ask such a question? I mean, do you actually think that people write fantasies because they're miserable, ( Read more... )

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended ( Read more... )