moments live forever now, distilled and bottled into pixels- so they never exist fully (existence has a start and end) we engrave captions on tombstones of graveyards of memories. but most life happens between discrete points in time. bottling moments is an art form that approximates the essence of the moment but approximations are never … Continue reading digital moments
so in the end everyone was given the same moments and minutes that stretched into days and years and decades the only difference, then, was in their allocation of these moments gifted in the epilogue the only chapters anyone talked about were Relationships, Health, Experience, and Impact tick tock
Inside everyone In quiet corners of their mind and heart Reside their dormant selves: Shadows, reflections, echoes They could not all have co-existed Opportunity costs to moving forward in time But sometimes I miss mine... The self which would sit at the window of a library and decode endless pages of equations of the physics … Continue reading dormant selves
1. Warm smile. The world is quite cold. 2. Everyone has a story that wants to burst out from them. A recent triumph, loss(es), an idea, a vision. Let them speak it and listen. Offer a reflection of their energy. It's an impossible world, and it's reassuring to exist. 3. Take out the big scull … Continue reading steps to making a friend
stars like pinpricks on a dark curtain in front of blinding light We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too … Continue reading eternity
"I want to stay as close on the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ... Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
Pay attention This common saying implies that there is a finite amount of attention. And it's true. The currency of attention is a blend of time, energy, and intentional presence. I think the way we are paying attention is broken right now. At present we have a seemingly endless streams of new apps that we … Continue reading on attention
learning that plans are important to get the ship out of port, but being a good sailor is knowing how to navigate storms and surges learning that experience is not measured in the number of successes, but the hours spent resolving failures learning how to keep my head down, voice soft, and put in the … Continue reading progress
Mt. Vesuvius, Italy We are not continuous The perceived continuity between our present and past versions self is a burden we do not need to carry It is an illusion Be always on the edge, as the critical point in a chemical reaction "You've changed" "Yes" You do not owe rationale to anyone Not even … Continue reading on continuity & development
Cooking is music, really Ingredients are notes on the staff, recipes are chords, and the plate is silence Symphonies on the tongue of life and spice Respect the ingredients and understand them, there's history there Written in love
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