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Reframe Refrain
As Spring is almost upon us I’ve been thinking about the idea of turning a new leaf. Of new chapters and new beginnings and how important it can be to update the scriptwriters in our heads. I think a lot about change, the ways in which we all change physically (my knee makes an insane noise when I do squats now), with our time (where does it go?), and energy (the way men sometimes soften in their old age). But also more active change, the change of confrontation, of squaring up to the things that scare you. Confronting your fear of flying to see your grandkids. Confronting the things that are keeping you stuck. The thoughts that don’t offering anything. That fight to keep you off-rhythm and to one side.
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Big Whoops and Welcome Mats
I've been thinking a lot about jobs and careers, and how to spend time. Sometimes I feel as if I do not fit into society. I am exasperated and enraged by how we have organized things. I have a comment box and a half’s worth of complaints, just about jobs and working life in America. So many times I have asked myself the question, what do I want to do for work. And putting aside that it is extremely hard to be an artist as an occupation in twilight of American empire (or at any time in America for that matter) I actually have some ideas.
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Riches in the Ruins
I put a new national parks calendar on the wall that says 2025 and as the second part of that ritual dictates, I’m trying to parse how to live more fully. This is a question that calls out like a 5 year old’s call and response of “why?”. It comes like a period at the end of every thought, if not
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Nice Thing Now and Again
I just finished a lovely book on mushrooms 'A Tangled Life' by Merlin Shandrake, and in it he discusses symbiosis, and how its original definitio... -
Wet Bulb Time
When talking to my mom and relatives it was revealed to me that they feel mentally about 30 years old. That's when things stopped shifting and the main things that changed for them were circumstantial or habits based, but nothing transformational could be recalled. -
Quantified Yearning
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Medication and Expectation
A post about the fine line between pushing yourself towards glory and flicking yourself on the ear (self inflicted wedgies etc. so on). Where does work fit into it? And how does one just feel comfortable? You think I know?