Today I got home from school, napped, and consumed a load of carbs- my usual Wednesday afternoon dwindle to a near halt. When I woke up, work was still washing up on the shores of my mind like a stupid duck-shaped paddle boat that someone forgot to tie to the dock. So I planned some objectives and KUD’s […]

Some Tuesday morning perspective: Dear, Dear One, This life is too short to spend one more minute of it fretting. Trust me— who knows how many more sunrises I (you) will see? Let go. You can’t control the future. The things you think are worth worrying about are just heartbeats, dust, nothing. Eternity is ours, […]

This, this that I call my self, Is a bridge only. What the God of suns and stars does behind my skull, in my veins and ventricles, I cannot fathom What the God of my heart does outside my flesh, What God does with wind and tree and rock, And the exhalations and inhalations of […]

Interesting expression of one author’s experience in relation to Søren Kierkegaard’s existential questions. The Path of Writing | Tricycle.

Peter Fleischer: Privacy…?: The right to be forgotten, or how to edit your history. A comprehensive and easy to read overview of internet privacy issues, the European droit “a l’oubli,” straight from the horse’s mouth: that of Peter Fleischer, Google’s privacy policy director. The whole blog is a must-read, really.

An examination of how to prioritize writing in your life, with Sean Murphy’s ever-moderate, equivocal and clear insights. Newsletter – Sean Murphy. Sean has been my zen teacher since I was a little squirt, just out of college. His tone alone teaches me much about meditation, writing, and goals in life. Enjoy!

“Without relationship, there is no existence: to be is to be related. Most of us do not seem to realize this;that the world is my relationship with others, whether one or many. My problem is that of relationship. What I am, that I project, and obviously, if I do not understand myself, the whole of […]

“Is it possible to be related without idea, without demand, without ownership, possession? Can we commune with each other – which is real relationship on all the different levels of consciousness – if we are related to each other through a desire, a physical or psychological need? And can there be relationship without these conditioning […]

One must wonder if it is a good thing that, “Instead of constraining our power, [international organizations] magnified it.”” -Barack Obama http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140343/stewart-patrick/the-unruled-world

I have purchased, for €6, a copy of Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra, and I am finding it a delightful companion, one that shares my whimsy and romanticism. Of Andalusia, he says: “For the greater part it is a stern, melancholy country, with rugged mountains and long sweeping plains, destitute of trees, and indescribably […]