reality is broken
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you be trippin’
Are you ready to take that ride?
sunday afternoon
black coffee pounding def beats through my veins a jazz rift drifts like dead flies against the newscaster’s sand blasted voice scratching head lines across my brain. senior prison officers pimping passes for pussy, didn’t…
naked man in the shower
Naked Man in the shower: “Are you local?” I open my eyes. A middle-aged, bald soapy guy is standing next to me. “Yeah, yeah just around the corner,” I say. “I’ve seen you in here…
fear, desire, and hope
I’m curious to know where I am going next. Several timely quotes have presented themselves to me at a time when I am feeling transient. The first is from Steve Jobs: “Remembering I’ll be dead…
interview with neil del strother, author of The Flower in the Desert
(Neil del Strother) Back in January, I posted a short review of The Flower in the Desert, by Neil del Strother. Recently, I had a opportunity to interview Neil about the book and his inspiration…
Waayaha Cusub
Something different from Somalia beside the usual reports of death and destruction:
the invitation
(click to enlarge) By the way, you knew I couldn’t stay away for long.
To what degree do you believe that your past experiences determine who you are, and what is possible for you now?
How this plays itself out for me is that most of us are unaware of the past experiences that control or influence our present behavior. Our innate tendency is to act habitually. This is a…
how much do you want what you want?
What are you must desirous of? Put another way, what is it that you want most? Now ask yourself how much do you really want it? Here’s a story about Socrates that may help you…
involutionary path and evolutionary path
This hit me smack dead between the eyes this morning. It’s a passage from a book by a Russian guy named Gurdjieff, who basically dedicated his life to answering the question: “What is the sense…
stay tuned for claylowe 2.0
I have existed from the morning of the world, and I shall exist until the last star falls from the heavens. Although I have taken the form of Clay Lowe, I am all men, as…
I’ve been in hermit mode for a week
I’ve been in hermit mode for a week, venturing out of my cave only for the essentials – food, water, and the gym. This time around in the cave, I’ve been studying the nature of…
how do i love thee?
From a poet to her Internet lover: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I’ll get my husband to eat horny goat weed and promise him sex in the woods. Once there,…
sex sales and the whole world is buying
A young lady of 15 has written a letter to the local paper. She is lamenting about the rampant sexism in her school. She says she often hears “lads saying how amazing a girl’s behind…
should we stay or should we go now?
The headlines in the British press over the past week have been fixated on President Obama’s upcoming decision on Afghanistan. What should he do – send more troops or look for an honorable way to…
is positive thinking undermining us?
I am in the business of helping people help themselves, or at least guiding them through a journey of self-help. One of my bones of contention with the self-help, positive psychology industry has been the…
news and world events
Re-engaging with the news and reading current affairs has reawakened a part of me that has lain dormant for many years now, probably since I left the army 12 years ago. I think back then,…
what interests me
I’m in transition phase, which means I’m between projects. I spent the doing some light research for my next project(s). My morning reflection time yielding a long list of to-do’s, but I ended up blowing…