“ Your belief system saturates the space around you.” ~ Aaron Huey Let’s talk about beliefs today. How do you form them? What’s your process? Do they just appear and suddenly exist somehow? The whole concept of belief is an interesting one when you get right down to it. They’re an interesting sort [...]
“ Only entropy comes easy.” ~ Anton Chekhov Well, Spring is springing no matter how you slice it. What do the longer days inspire in you? I suppose you may live somewhere that’s still covered in snow, but here in the Bay Area it’s nothing but sunshine. The hills are green, plants are [...]
“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Do you ever avoid talking about the elephant in the room? Well, I’m not going to do that today. The fact is, we are one big global family, and some of our kinfolk are [...]
“ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain Do you ever get so busy you [...]
“ Love is space and time measured by the heart.” ~ Marcel Proust What is there to say about love that hasn’t been said? It makes the world go round, it’s a many splendored thing, it’s the force that holds the universe together. There’s love for yourself. There’s love for another person. There’s [...]
“ Where words fail, music speaks...” ~ Hans Christian Andersen Have you ever thought about what your music says about you? What’s the over-arching vibe of each genre you choose? How does music transcend language? Some evolutionists think that our capacity to sing and make music came before we humans learned to talk. [...]
“ Learning never exhausts the mind.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci How do you learn things nowadays? What kind of learner are you? Do you find that learning new skills, talents, or techniques keeps you help your mind body and soul more limber? Everyone has a preferred way of garnering knowledge. But knowledge isn’t [...]
“ A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” ~ Mark Twain Are you a creature of habit? How much of your life is routine? How often is it spontaneous? One way to look at life is through the lens of [...]
“ Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Who are your "inter-dimensional allies"? Do you connect to nature? Or does the natural world connect with you? Even folks who live in the most sterile of high-rises have some tenuous connection to nature. Just as some Walden-esque [...]
“ The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.” ~ Alfred Adler What are you next to in life? Beyond the people who live next-door, who are your neighbors ideologically, culturally, or socially? Have you ever considered that to which you are adjacent? They say if you want to [...]
