Approaching motorist hits the breaks and mouths what looks like profanity. As I seemingly interrupted her interpretation of what she thought was real. Story's we're all telling but rarely offering space to hear anyone but ours 1223
The chickadees have changed their song, a friend tells me. They know what is coming, what is bound to come, even though the days have taught me it is better to doubt.
"The survival of poetry depends on the failure of language." Robert Bringhurst
"All human creativity issues from the urgency of longing." John o'Donohue
Find the joys. Sometimes they are impossibly small. Hang tight, my friend, there is enough lightning in these bottles to coax the sun to rise.
Is it just my feed, or is YouTube generally now just video essays about how the world isn't good anymore?
Are we the new disappointed generation?
One of my favourite things about reading is when it reminds me how hard it is often, for so many of us to simply be alive.
How tired I am of advertising as our current cultural expression... when all our media is social.
Reading about meditation (cause I have no time to actually meditate) and in a chapter called "Sifted by Boredom" a paragraph concludes with:
"(Let) certain fields of the mind lie fallow, fields manured with boredom."
I love monkish books on stillness.
I just "exported" my "library" of saved tracks/albums from Tidal to an Excel sheet... and it comes out to just over 15,000 entries.
Am I the problem?
Trying to find and foster a meditation practice while balancing work/life/school/reality can feel impossible.
"The essential, that which is given to us in the metaphorical fire of this quiet oneness, never imposes itself on us, while the unessential is constantly imposing itself on us." J. Finlay
Someone at my co-working space just described me as "the most emotionally aware man I've ever met".
Is this a blessing, or is this a curse?
Should I add it to my dating profile?
Y/N?
Lately I've been hit with a series of bizarre Tai-Chi ads on YouTube? A ludicrously fit fellow telling me about how he got so fit. Except in small writing at the bottom the video confesses that it is Ai-Generated.
You're telling me "unrealistic" body standards are now actually, entirely, not-real.
Scribbled this down the other day:
On the porch, slow sunny fall morning, quiet jazz, time could, if it would be so kind, pause here for a brief forever 1049
"It is an old ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way." R. May
Every year I forget, though July can be cruel with its continuous unforgiving heat, August can be kind, the breeze and still the sun, spinning out the summer days.
One of the ways I can tell movies and tv™️ aren't real is that there are never scenes where characters are just sweating for no reason. Life (as of late) seems to mostly involve just sweating. For no reason.
Let's see more stories about that.
Or let's cool it around here. With the sweating.
Does anyone else ever get the urge to check into a hotel just for a nice night? Nothing sketchy. Just a cable TV movie and mediocre breakfast buffet in the morning.
I could of sworn there were Ads in my dreams last night... must I now pay for a premium uninterrupted sleep experience?
Or is life so bombarded by them that my sillie subconscious replicates them even while I drift?
Oh my.
My lord, the sweetness of a cool summer's day. Almost makes that other, harsh unbearable, bearable.
Either way, it's quite kind today.
I've consistently, as of late, spotted a beautiful bird, mid-flight, immediately drop a huge shit. Wonders never cease.
I just tried to swipe-type "Google" but my phone autocorrected it to "giggle".
Maybe you're right. Maybe that's what I really need.
The internet contains a surprising repertoire of unhappiness. And though it all appears to be on offer for free it takes its toll. It takes its toll on me.
"I am pleasantly located in the deep sea, but love will row you out, if her hands are strong, and don’t wait till I land, for I’m going ashore on the other side." Emily Dickinson
Hahaha True☝️
I'm sure this already exists, but I'd like to create a personalized bot that just responds to every post with "Hahaha True☝️"
I had nothing to do today so I did that
"If the circumstance cannot change, the person must."
Kay Redfield Jamison - Healing the Unquiet Mind (reflecting on the philosophy of Viktor Frankl)
How come they don't tell you that Jane Austen remained single until her untimely death?
The one writing these stories, and the one living them are perhaps two different people entirely.
Then again, love is often most sweet in imagination.
Commitment, long-suffering, grief are a difficult sell.
You know you're doing it right when your times of prayerful meditation (variations on the same theme) give way to tumbling into a nap.
There is a spirit of restoration, which perhaps knows that your deepest need is rest, even when unconsciously ignore it.
It insists.
Strange how these devices take us from the present and project us (like astral travelers) into a million stories with mixed intentions.
Justice and capitalism competing for my attention, my wallet, my soul.
So I'll reflect on it here?
"And you expect me to believe, that any of this is real?"
