January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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So this is Christmas (in PDX)
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The first frame is just before I twisted my ankle, but that didn’t stop me from climbing a tree, walking for miles the next day, and marching for many more miles on the following day with E.
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Martin Teague: Sir? If you don't mind my asking... why a box?
Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Where upon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.
Martin Teague: It's quite depressing, if you think of it that way.
Arlington Steward: Don't think of it that way... think of it as a temporary state of being.
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between 27 and 33 and infinity
July 2011
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“Shut up, he explained.”
– Ring Lardner
June 2011
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March 2011
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December 2010
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“There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
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November 2010
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“No, bereavement (depression) is different from sickness. What should I be cured...”
– Roland Barthes, French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His essays on mourning — his mother having died when he was in his 60’s — have been enlightening and have helped push me further along in understanding my own mother’s death. (last year)
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October 2010
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“The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
September 2010
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“Being naked alone is different. In a world that’s increasingly ‘transparent’,...”
– Robert Rowling Smith on Being Naked
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August 2010
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July 2010
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You switch on for the city Long gone from the...
June 2010
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What would you say you believe in?
April 2010
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“If we do not want to live meaninglessly, then we need to give ourselves over...”
– Eva Hoffman, ‘Time’
March 2010
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January 2010
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“Mr. Fox: Mole! What d’you got?
Mole: I can see in the dark.
Mr. Fox: We...”
– Despite my own “heart-on-sleeve” way of life, there is always more left to discover about one other, and sometimes it’s the timing of when it all comes pouring out that makes all the difference.
December 2009
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“I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little...”
– David Byrne, in 1986’s “True Stories”, a film that he wrote, starred in, and directed.
We watched at Zoya’s on Halloween, her dressed as Oregon Trail, Evan as himself, and E and I as nouveau réalisme. Naturally.
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“Not every clocktick needs a martyr.”
– John Woods
Particularly appropriate, I feel, in the day and age of GTD, TODO apps, and the general weight and constant pressure of time. Unstructured time is infinitely valuable for us all - for recharging, regeneration, and personal growth.
November 2009
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It's the only place I know how to bear
Thirteen years ago this morning I walked into my parents’ bedroom on an overcast and somewhat rainy Tuesday morning to find my Mother in bed, lying lifelessly still.
I froze that day, a state of mind that I’ve existed in ever since. That is until this time last year, when I finally exhaled, or perhaps more fittingly, inhaled, and came to see that my life’s journey hasn’t taken...
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Untitled
Scott: Where do you get these artsy tweets and away msgs?
Ian: My mind.
Ian: Or drugs.
Ian: Your call.
Scott: The union of both?
Ian: Well, so actually, I stare at the drugs and wonder what I would think I would think if I was ever on them.
October 2009
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“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn...”
– Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs
This dude was on(to) something.
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July 2009
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February 2009
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“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
– Albert Camus, French author, philosopher and Nobel prize-winning journalist
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City Bakery's Hot Chocolate Festival!
Today marks the start of City Bakery’s 17th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival, which runs throughout the month. Fearing that I would miss my favorites again this year (cinnamon, bourbon, and lemon), I created an iCal filled with the days’ flavors. They’re kicking off the month, and SuperBowl Sunday, with beer hot chocolate! Take a peek or subscribe!
January 2009
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“I love the way we all suddenly stop traducing our enemy when we hear they have a...”
– Don Paterson, from his most recently published book of aphorisms, “Best Thought, Worst Thought.”