... circumstances indicate that the path
to your destination twists and turns in a
bewildering way. Your insight, however,
can penetrate and make sense of confusion.
-definition, juxtaposition from Tarot.com

Go to the bathroom first ( Read more... )

Go, PowerCat, go!

Walking home from work last evening,
I walked into the wind.

Walking to work this morning,
I walked into the wind.

I feel on the verge of uplift --
but the wind is always in front,
and I don't know how to sail.
Or remember, yet, how to fly.

A man traveling through the darkness ( Read more... )

You reach a point where you can either
do something or be somebody.
- Major John Boyd

How do you free yourself, even momentarily,
from being somebody in order to do something
instead (or as well)?

Looking to do something with a meaningful
connection, not as defined by anyone else
save this silly goose trying to dissolve
her bottle.

Sometimes when ( Read more... )

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

One can do things without having a goal, but ( Read more... )

Shucks, folks, I'm speechless.
-Lion

For those of you whom I haven't had
much chance to talk to very recently,
and even for many of those I have:

As of Nov. 28, 2005, I enter a new world.

I will be an independent contractor
in my chosen field of user-centered
analysis, design, and testing. I have
a chance to operate as a consultant
with Human ( Read more... )

Please tell why, do we build castles in the sky,
Oh tell me why, all the castles way up high--
Ian Van Dahl

Is dreaming just a butterfly, or
just a sticky grey cocoon we spin and break open?

If I dream of being in Kansas City, and
not being able to find the rental car
that I need to return to the airport
so that I can get back home --

(crows and ( Read more... )

Inevitably, Cosmic Forces get involved.
You know how it goes.
-Top 10, issue #2

Personal, positive, present tense.
Visual, auditory, emotional.

While walking to the Metro this morning,
I get a small stone stuck inside my shoe,
small enough to rattle around while walking.

With all the construction going on, both housing ( Read more... )

Lion: All right. I'll go in there
for Dorothy - Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch -
guards or no guards - I'll tear 'em apart.
Ohhh! I may not come out alive but I'm going in there.
There's only one thing I want you fellas to do...
Tin Man and Scarecrow: What's that?
Lion: Talk me out of it.

Last weekend, while the mice were away:
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You, the butterfly -
I, Chuang-Tzu's
dreaming heart.
-Coleman Barks

The heat in the air has broken, so ( Read more... )

I experience love very deeply, and grow
richer because of this every day.

Spring. It's here, but it's not here ( Read more... )