As I returned to my homestead, half-eaten pizza in hand, I noticed that the moon was an ever so slight crescent in the sky. Yet it shone bright and pleaded with me to pay attention to it. So I obeyed, as if I had had a choice to turn away, and marveled at the beauty that was the moon. Not only the crescent beacon, but also the outline of the ( Read more... )

Much of my University career and time afterward has been spent questioning the purpose of life. The past couple of days, however, my thinking has turned in a new direction that questions the purpose of finding purpose. But "purpose" is a bit of a slippery term, because what if I fulfill it? Does that mean that I must die at that moment? Or just ( Read more... )

I'm not a blogger by nature. But I'm trying to learn, so I begin with why it feels like such a difficult thing to do. And as I walked across the street excitedly, to buy fish and chips (only to find that it was closed) I realized that blogging resembles that conversation that always arises when you meet a bunch of new people in a short period of ( Read more... )

I was wondering today if there are, in fact, any original thoughts to be made or contemplated. Every thought that I have analyzed seems to be something that could easily have been made many years before it even occurred to me. I'm sure that many people have also contemplated this same thought as I am having now. Hmmm...

This is my first entry. WOOT!