A Thousand Years A thousand years, a thousand more, A thousand times a million doors to eternity I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times An endless turning stairway climbs To a tower of souls If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars, The towers rise to numberless floors in space I […]
If—
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being […]
Three kinds of people in the world
There are three kinds of people in the world, those who are asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake. If you try to wake up the sleeping, he will just mumble and go back to sleep. If you wake up the stirring, he will wake up just long enough to curse you […]
A 13 year old note
Was going through my office desk and found a notebook with a note that I wrote in 2000 while visiting Karlsbad, CZ. Completely forgot what I wrote in it until now. While the note is somewhat cryptic, the memories it activated came back flooding through me. Kind of cool. ——– Fear. Longing. Desire. Incompleteness. Grief. […]
“Evil”
So, my godson and his mom went to the Universal Studios and brought me back a gift, a t-shirt. A nice, comfortable, thick cotton t-shirt. The front of if had this image. I (kind of) understand the Good-Looking Bold Guy thing. But Evil? EVIL?????? I get the reference to the cartoon. Yet…
My Voice
WITHIN this restless, hurried, modern world We took our hearts’ full pleasure–You and I, And now the white sails of our ship are furled, And spent the lading of our argosy. Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan, For very weeping is my gladness fled, Sorrow hath paled my lip’s vermilion, And Ruin draws […]
Entracte 1
Sat down to write something inspiring or, at the very least, depressing, yet could not finish – got stuck on the verbs while listening to the soundtrack of Amelie. It has been a nut of a day. No, a nut of a year. Will go back to it some other time. So instead, decided to […]
Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If […]
Illusion and Reality
What is seen is not the Truth What is cannot be said Trust comes not without seeing Nor understanding without words The wise comprehends with knowledge To the ignorant it is but a wonder Some worship the formless God Some worship His various forms In what way He is beyond these attributes Only the Knower […]
Werner Erhard’s article
Got into reading this article this morning. It is the cornerstone of what I have been thinking for a while now. The man is one of the most important thinkers these days. Regardless of anything else, I admire him immensely. How has your second act been doing so far and what do you have written […]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
After spending the afternoon with my godson and dropping him off at his mother’s house, I decided to go to Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto as it was pretty close from where I was. Having nothing to do (first *entire* weekend in many, many years), this was a great time to take for myself. It […]
Heaven and Hell
I had this iteration of the old joke around forever. Been going through the files on my laptop and could not resist not to post it. Heaven is where: The police are British The chefs are Italian The mechanics are German The lovers are French and it is all organized by the Swiss Hell is […]