metaphor
if you are looking for the path of your life can you become lost on your way?
let go of the metaphor, life is just life
live and learn
this is something that many people seem to be against
why be against anything?
be for something
don't surrender
you can leave late and arrive early
Wednesday
Monday
three questions
What are you reading now?
I just finished "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B. Irvine. I was very disappointed when I came to the end because I really wanted to keep reading! I guess I picked up some momentum in the course of the read. I am reading "The Unfettered Mind" by Takuan Soho on the side, it seems I am always reading some book on the side, so to speak. Soho was a 17th century Zen Buddhist monk. The book I am starting on now is "Working Out, Working Within" by Jerry Lynch. It may promise more than it delivers, we shall see.
What are your current projects?
Well I want to ramp up my exercise program. My job is 100 percent sedentary and that is killing me slowly. I want to put my house in a different order than the one it is now, I have too much of the mad scientist environment going on at the moment. And I want to write more.
What is your greatest fear?
Well you know nature films have gotten better and better over the years so along the way I decided that Lions were about the best thing to be afraid of!
I just finished "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B. Irvine. I was very disappointed when I came to the end because I really wanted to keep reading! I guess I picked up some momentum in the course of the read. I am reading "The Unfettered Mind" by Takuan Soho on the side, it seems I am always reading some book on the side, so to speak. Soho was a 17th century Zen Buddhist monk. The book I am starting on now is "Working Out, Working Within" by Jerry Lynch. It may promise more than it delivers, we shall see.
What are your current projects?
Well I want to ramp up my exercise program. My job is 100 percent sedentary and that is killing me slowly. I want to put my house in a different order than the one it is now, I have too much of the mad scientist environment going on at the moment. And I want to write more.
What is your greatest fear?
Well you know nature films have gotten better and better over the years so along the way I decided that Lions were about the best thing to be afraid of!
Friday
waiting
“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope”
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
Epictetus
Just sitting here waiting for a call regarding an echocardiogram I had this week. Of course I don't know at the moment why they have to talk to me so this must be a cosmic test.
Beyond that I am feeling better, losing weight, reading and thinking on the waterfront. Looking for a truth that will suit me, not the phrase that I thought I would use when I started to write it but closer to the truth for all of us, don't you think?
I was reading a book at lunch today because I knew I would be alone for a change. I was hoping someone would notice the title but I don't think anyone did. That is an idea that entered my mind and wouldn't leave, like a signpost planted at an intersection that said "You are not where you want to be!"
I am reading books about Stoicism, Zen and Enlightenment now-a-days, I think they go together pretty well. I've even gone to all the discount book stores this past week, nosing around, something I use to do all the time but stopped when I became one of Amazon's best customers.
Sometimes I feel like I am walking on a surface that is not the same one that everyone else is on. I don't get this feeling when I am cutting the grass or cleaning the house, I think that signpost is there again.
Whatever level I am on it is time to step up to the next one. There was a women's triathlon held near me a few weeks ago and the lady who won it said she trained twenty hours a week.
This is a lot more exercise than I am getting now but no more than I have done in the past. Right now I am doing about six hours a week and making progress but not in all the right places.
Well the call never came through so i will spend the weekend wondering.
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
Epictetus
Just sitting here waiting for a call regarding an echocardiogram I had this week. Of course I don't know at the moment why they have to talk to me so this must be a cosmic test.
Beyond that I am feeling better, losing weight, reading and thinking on the waterfront. Looking for a truth that will suit me, not the phrase that I thought I would use when I started to write it but closer to the truth for all of us, don't you think?
I was reading a book at lunch today because I knew I would be alone for a change. I was hoping someone would notice the title but I don't think anyone did. That is an idea that entered my mind and wouldn't leave, like a signpost planted at an intersection that said "You are not where you want to be!"
I am reading books about Stoicism, Zen and Enlightenment now-a-days, I think they go together pretty well. I've even gone to all the discount book stores this past week, nosing around, something I use to do all the time but stopped when I became one of Amazon's best customers.
Sometimes I feel like I am walking on a surface that is not the same one that everyone else is on. I don't get this feeling when I am cutting the grass or cleaning the house, I think that signpost is there again.
Whatever level I am on it is time to step up to the next one. There was a women's triathlon held near me a few weeks ago and the lady who won it said she trained twenty hours a week.
This is a lot more exercise than I am getting now but no more than I have done in the past. Right now I am doing about six hours a week and making progress but not in all the right places.
Well the call never came through so i will spend the weekend wondering.
Wednesday
point of view
I met a girl who said she could interpret dreams.
I said okay, this is what I dreamed last night. I was flying in the tail of an XB-35 and I heard the pilot reciting poems by John Keats and Robert Browning but he didn't know the words.
She turned and walked away.
I said okay, this is what I dreamed last night. I was flying in the tail of an XB-35 and I heard the pilot reciting poems by John Keats and Robert Browning but he didn't know the words.
She turned and walked away.
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