So I'm gunna use this for a little more conventional communication. Maybe I'll get a little esoteric. (After proof reading I got real esoteric, be warned!)
As the title mentions I want to mostly address the canoe trip. I will give my thoughts on that as well as some side commentary as to my tertiary thoughts on the topic.
I'll start at the beginning. Brother Chris and I took a trip to the BWCA last year and it was very nice (read very nice as Borat would say it). When we saw groups of 4 and 6 canoes loaded with old men and women and very young children easily pass us in our kayaks we thought that this kind of trip would be great for our kids. We thought that this has the potential of being a trip that all The Brothers could do with there loved ones all in tow. It could be a great family bonding experience and something that could easily become a tradition with us.
The planning began immediately. We are currently cementing the planning. Of course this cement is still wet and pliable, which leads me to this posting.
It was going to be e and Eileen with The Twins and Chris and Sue with The Boys. Cliff was an unknown factor with The Rosie even more unknown. Archie and Barbie where pretty much out of the planning loop, just too damn far away to consider it. As is par for The Paulson course, smuch has stranged. Well, not smuch, but things have stranged a bit.
The current status is that Sue has bailed, using Alex's work scheduling as an excuse. This rather upsets me as my Lady needs another woman on the trip. I seriously considered bailing myself and my crew. I thought about it a lot, and have come to the conclusion that I was stupid for thinking it and that thinking has driven me to write this post, more on that thinking to come later. Also in some jello like stasis is Clifford. I talked with him on the phone and he sounded quite dispassionate about the trip and even made a statement that if it was too much hassle or extra expense that he could easily be excluded. (I will have to give him a couple disclaimers, he had several beers in him when I talked to him and he really hasn't been in the planning of the whole thing so he didn't have much idea of what was going on.) By the time you read this Cliffy your plans are probably more set in this regard, that is the advantage you have of not reading this until many days after it is posted. Cliff is currently trying to figure out if it is going to be to much work and hassle to bring The Rosie, I hope, when you are reading this, that The Rosie is part of The Posse.
Here are what I believe to be the nuts and scrapings (huh?) of the trip to be. We spend the night of 8/3 in Ely, MN in a hotel. We rent canoes for the next 3 days. On the morning of the fourth two adults, maybe a kid get an early start and find a camp site and claim it. This is our camp site for both nights of camping. We make the trip as easy and enjoyable on the kids as possible. They gotta learn the hard stuff of canoe camping, portage, camp clean up, etc., but it's gotta be fun and enjoyable. We pack out Thursday and head home, maybe hit the Dairy Queen for a Blizzard on the way. If it proves to be a positive experience I envision us doing it with our children and grandchildren.
To my thoughts on bailing out myself... First off, I have put those thoughts aside as silly, I am far to excited about the possibilities mentioned above. But, I will admit to being quite upset and even depressed after speaking with Chris and finding out about the loss in his parties' size and also with Cliff and his seeming dispassion. I was thinking that this meant too much to me, that my Brothers did not have the care about being together in this way and I did. I'm a Tard, I know. It just that I have no friends, as I have mentioned before, all I have is you. This is why I wanted to use this damn Internet to help my relationship with you, I knew a blog would be mentioned and Skype is kool, maybe I'll get back into Go or some other game to play with you in the e-world. Now that Archie is in WI at least we all have a better proximity to each other. I would rather have physical contact with you, where I can touch you, connect with you, and put you in a head lock! I know it is silly but I have ideas of us all being together again as old men, maybe retiring in some condominium complex in Costa Rica or Arizona.
Damn, I've gone on too long. I'm tired. I've spewed enough for now. I've got more thoughts but I'll save them for anyone who can be bothered to respond to this drivel. I will conclude with a thought for Archie. I know it's out of your planning, but if there is a way, you might want to think about this trip, hopefully it will go well enough that you can go next year.
Luv,
Brother e
PS. I guess I ain't done yet. I have a dog now. She is cute as hell. She just came into my garage one day when I was cleaning out the car and hasn't left, that was a month ago. She follows me everywhere, the kids and Eileen love her. Also, for about the last 3 months or so I think about shooting myself in the head every night before I go to sleep, sometimes it's the first thing I think of when I wake up, I do not think about it during the day. Don't worry, I won't do it, I got too much going on that's good. I know I am needed and loved. I think about it none the less, it's fucking weird. I just wonder what the fuck life is all about anyway. There is so little of it, life that is. What difference does it make if you are alive for 45 years or 100? I really need to evolve into a computer and live for a few centuries or eons. OK, I'm done now, I'm fantasizing and swearing, gotta go.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Dong!!!!!!!!!!
Can you believe that 50% of Paulson boys don't know that Vietnam's currency is the dong?!? How has this factoid gotten by us? My son actually pointed it out to me.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Religion
OK y'all. Here is something to chew on. This is essentially what my final essay in religion was on. It is my professor's summary of the final chapter in the second of our two texts (this one attempting to summarize the beliefs of the "world's religions."
What do you think? If you would like me to go first, I will, but I would like to hear your thoughts. I could also post or attach my 4 page paper, but it isn't very good and it is written for the professor so it does not necessarily pertain to this conversation.
Any way you look at it, there is some good fodder here. Take a bite and let me know how it tastes to you.
Cliff
Drawn from The World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions, by Huston Smith.
After his brilliant discussion of the world religions, Smith asks the question: What do we make of this?
To answer this big question, he asks three particular questions.
1. How are we to pattern the religions of the world--what is the relation between the religions?
A.We could try to argue that one is superior. We hear less of that today than previously, but the question should not be dismissed out of hand. Smith states: "Nothing in the comparative study of religions requires that they cross the finishing line of the reader's regard in a dead heat."
B.We could argue the opposite--that they are all alike despite particular differences. There are enduring truths that all subscribe to and this is what is important. But this position is difficult to maintain because there are essential differences and beliefs that traditions say are non-negotiable. It is impossible to have a single world religion.
C.Smith believes that the way they relate can be likened to a stained glass window whose sections divide the light of the sun into different colors. This analogy allows for significant differences without pronouncing their relative worth. We see different angles of how religious truth is perceived. To draw on theological language, if God is to be revealed, it must be through the idioms, cultures, and values of the respective hearers. A passage from the Qur'an is relevant here: "We never sent a messenger except with the language of his people, so that he might make [the message] clear for them."
2. Do these religions have anything to say collectively to the world at large? What wisdom do they offer?
Science discloses the nature of reality but not all of reality. Scientific truth applies only to the empirical world. The ultimately worthful aspects of reality--its meanings, values, and purposes--go beyond science.
Where can we turn for counsel concerning things that matter most? We must recognize that these religious traditions reflect old cosmologies, social mores, and the like, and these must be reassessed in the light of science and contemporary life.
So don't get trapped in this. You are not the community of Corinth, Smith tells us. You are not the followers of Muhammad in seventh century Mecca.
Thus it is best to "pass a strainer" through the world's religions to lift out their conclusions about reality and how life should be lived. This is the winnowed wisdom of the human race.
Here are the specifics of that wisdom, according to Smith:
a.In the realm of ethics, the Decalogue tells the cross-cultural story. We should avoid murder, thieving, lying, and adultery.
b.But what should we be like? What should we strive to be, in positive terms? Certain virtues are cross-cultural: humility, charity, and veracity.
c.However, there are obstacles to achieving these virtues. Buddha identified three: greed, hatred, and delusion. If eliminated, we find selflessness (humility), compassion (charity), and seeing things in their suchness (veracity).
What about vision? About the ultimate character of things?
A.First, we have difficulty seeing the really big picture; that is, the full picture of reality. It is like a tapestry which we face from its wrong side, so that we see only knots and threads, and it seems chaotic. The religions of the world are efforts to see on the other side of the tapestry, to discover the pattern which gives meaning to the whole. And in so doing, we see unity in the universe, a grand design of some kind, the Unity of all things.
B.Second, if things are pervaded by a grand design, they are not only more integrated than they seem; they are also better than they seem. Another allegory: if astronomy helps us understand that the universe is bigger than human senses disclose, then the world's religions tell us that it is better than our sensibilities discern. The religions have an ontological exuberance. The human self is more than what it seems; Atman/Buddha nature, for example. Humans born in the image of God is another example, from Judaism and Christianity.
C.Third, reality is steeped in ineluctable mystery; we are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery. The more we know, the less we know. "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." Things are more mysterious than they seem.
So we are left with this: things are more integrated than they seem, they are better than they seem, and they are more mysterious than they seem. Something like this emerges as the highest common denominator of the wisdom traditions' reports.
And when we add to this that they also help establish for ethical behavior human virtues, "one wonders if a wiser platform for life has been conceived."
At the center of religious life is a particular kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful beginnings, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. There are only hints of this, but they are all-important.
3. So what do we do? How do we live in such a religiously pluralistic world that is at the same time growing more secular?
If one of the wisdom traditions claims us, we begin by listening to it.
But we also listen to the faith of others, including the secularists. The planet grows smaller, and we must seek to understand others. The marvelous scientific advances of our age must be matched by advances in human relations.
Understanding brings respect. Understanding can lead to love, and love can lead to understanding. The two are reciprocal.
So we must listen to understand.
Thomas Merton said that "God speaks to us in three places: in scripture, in our deepest selves, and in the voice of the stranger."
Said the Buddha, "He who would, may reach the utmost height--but he must be eager to learn."
What do you think? If you would like me to go first, I will, but I would like to hear your thoughts. I could also post or attach my 4 page paper, but it isn't very good and it is written for the professor so it does not necessarily pertain to this conversation.
Any way you look at it, there is some good fodder here. Take a bite and let me know how it tastes to you.
Cliff
Drawn from The World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions, by Huston Smith.
After his brilliant discussion of the world religions, Smith asks the question: What do we make of this?
To answer this big question, he asks three particular questions.
1. How are we to pattern the religions of the world--what is the relation between the religions?
A.We could try to argue that one is superior. We hear less of that today than previously, but the question should not be dismissed out of hand. Smith states: "Nothing in the comparative study of religions requires that they cross the finishing line of the reader's regard in a dead heat."
B.We could argue the opposite--that they are all alike despite particular differences. There are enduring truths that all subscribe to and this is what is important. But this position is difficult to maintain because there are essential differences and beliefs that traditions say are non-negotiable. It is impossible to have a single world religion.
C.Smith believes that the way they relate can be likened to a stained glass window whose sections divide the light of the sun into different colors. This analogy allows for significant differences without pronouncing their relative worth. We see different angles of how religious truth is perceived. To draw on theological language, if God is to be revealed, it must be through the idioms, cultures, and values of the respective hearers. A passage from the Qur'an is relevant here: "We never sent a messenger except with the language of his people, so that he might make [the message] clear for them."
2. Do these religions have anything to say collectively to the world at large? What wisdom do they offer?
Science discloses the nature of reality but not all of reality. Scientific truth applies only to the empirical world. The ultimately worthful aspects of reality--its meanings, values, and purposes--go beyond science.
Where can we turn for counsel concerning things that matter most? We must recognize that these religious traditions reflect old cosmologies, social mores, and the like, and these must be reassessed in the light of science and contemporary life.
So don't get trapped in this. You are not the community of Corinth, Smith tells us. You are not the followers of Muhammad in seventh century Mecca.
Thus it is best to "pass a strainer" through the world's religions to lift out their conclusions about reality and how life should be lived. This is the winnowed wisdom of the human race.
Here are the specifics of that wisdom, according to Smith:
a.In the realm of ethics, the Decalogue tells the cross-cultural story. We should avoid murder, thieving, lying, and adultery.
b.But what should we be like? What should we strive to be, in positive terms? Certain virtues are cross-cultural: humility, charity, and veracity.
c.However, there are obstacles to achieving these virtues. Buddha identified three: greed, hatred, and delusion. If eliminated, we find selflessness (humility), compassion (charity), and seeing things in their suchness (veracity).
What about vision? About the ultimate character of things?
A.First, we have difficulty seeing the really big picture; that is, the full picture of reality. It is like a tapestry which we face from its wrong side, so that we see only knots and threads, and it seems chaotic. The religions of the world are efforts to see on the other side of the tapestry, to discover the pattern which gives meaning to the whole. And in so doing, we see unity in the universe, a grand design of some kind, the Unity of all things.
B.Second, if things are pervaded by a grand design, they are not only more integrated than they seem; they are also better than they seem. Another allegory: if astronomy helps us understand that the universe is bigger than human senses disclose, then the world's religions tell us that it is better than our sensibilities discern. The religions have an ontological exuberance. The human self is more than what it seems; Atman/Buddha nature, for example. Humans born in the image of God is another example, from Judaism and Christianity.
C.Third, reality is steeped in ineluctable mystery; we are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery. The more we know, the less we know. "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." Things are more mysterious than they seem.
So we are left with this: things are more integrated than they seem, they are better than they seem, and they are more mysterious than they seem. Something like this emerges as the highest common denominator of the wisdom traditions' reports.
And when we add to this that they also help establish for ethical behavior human virtues, "one wonders if a wiser platform for life has been conceived."
At the center of religious life is a particular kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful beginnings, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. There are only hints of this, but they are all-important.
3. So what do we do? How do we live in such a religiously pluralistic world that is at the same time growing more secular?
If one of the wisdom traditions claims us, we begin by listening to it.
But we also listen to the faith of others, including the secularists. The planet grows smaller, and we must seek to understand others. The marvelous scientific advances of our age must be matched by advances in human relations.
Understanding brings respect. Understanding can lead to love, and love can lead to understanding. The two are reciprocal.
So we must listen to understand.
Thomas Merton said that "God speaks to us in three places: in scripture, in our deepest selves, and in the voice of the stranger."
Said the Buddha, "He who would, may reach the utmost height--but he must be eager to learn."
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
County information
Hey Guys, No time to chat but ran across something for everyone. If you want to know about your neighbors or are looking into a community these GIS maps are great resources. Wisconsin is really in front of most states on this. Gotta get back to work,
erd
http://coastal.lic.wisc.edu/wisconsin-ims/wisconsin-ims.htm and
erd
http://coastal.lic.wisc.edu/wisconsin-ims/wisconsin-ims.htm and
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Dropbox
I found a nice way to exchange files -- easier than remotely managing Mom's machine. It's an online storage service that's free for accounts up to 2GB. It functions (in Windows, Linux and Mac) just like a normal folder on your local hard drive. You can add and remove stuff from the folder, and it synchronizes its contents with the online storage. It is handy for sharing files among friends, and/or for sharing a common folder at home and at work (as well as for backup if you pay for more space).
It's called dropbox. If you sign up via this invite (https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExMjQyNjg5), I think they'll give you an extra quarter-gig of free storage. On that page, you can click the 'screencast' link to see a short video demo of some of the features -- much easier than me explaining.
After you get an account and install the client software, make a folder to share and let everyone know. Should be a nice way to share tunes and other stuff.
Write a comment if you set 'er up, then we can trade some files, or if there are any problems, questions or concerns.
It's called dropbox. If you sign up via this invite (https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExMjQyNjg5), I think they'll give you an extra quarter-gig of free storage. On that page, you can click the 'screencast' link to see a short video demo of some of the features -- much easier than me explaining.
After you get an account and install the client software, make a folder to share and let everyone know. Should be a nice way to share tunes and other stuff.
Write a comment if you set 'er up, then we can trade some files, or if there are any problems, questions or concerns.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Happy Birthday A and B
Hey Dude and Dudette-
Happy Birthday like thing to the both of you. If I know you two, you are out lavishing gifts on each other. Anyway hope you are enjoying life's gifts, at least. Love you both,
Cliff
Happy Birthday like thing to the both of you. If I know you two, you are out lavishing gifts on each other. Anyway hope you are enjoying life's gifts, at least. Love you both,
Cliff
Monday, April 27, 2009
Why?
Can you tell me?
Bet you can't.
You might ask why what? How can I respond? It's just...Why?
My only answer is...Why not? Of course, it is another question, not an answer.
There are no answers, only choices. The beauty is that you get to choose.
Make good choices.
Bet you can't.
You might ask why what? How can I respond? It's just...Why?
My only answer is...Why not? Of course, it is another question, not an answer.
There are no answers, only choices. The beauty is that you get to choose.
Make good choices.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Class materials
I hope you guys like this idea, but if not let me know and I will save myself the humiliation of being the only non-college educated one among us. I am taking a full load of classes now and again in the fall. Occasionally I find some really cool stuff or interesting ideas we are discussing. This format allows me to just post cool links or quick ideas about them. Here is the first from my geography class. Also, I sometimes have an assignment that I think is worth analyzing, let me know if you are interested and I can paste or maybe attach (not sure this is possible) some of them. Certainly not necessary, but could be good fodder.
Cliff
My geography site is the National Atlas. If Chris ever logs in, I think this may be classroom material. But it also has a ton of other info. Let me know if you think it is worth your time.
Cliff
My geography site is the National Atlas. If Chris ever logs in, I think this may be classroom material. But it also has a ton of other info. Let me know if you think it is worth your time.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Using RSS....
I would really like to get an RSS feed for this blog and for individual posts. You probably do, too, if you're interested in using this blog regularly.
Let me explain how the RSS feed works. The idea is that you get an application called an "RSS Reader" which checks for updates on web pages that you "subscribe" to. That is, you subscribe to the RSS feed of a few web pages that interest you, such as blogs or photo websites or newspapers. That way you don't have to visit those websites to see what's new -- you get the new content right in your RSS Reader as soon as it's posted.
In our case, if there are four or five conversations (ie, blog posts) here that are getting new comments, you'll have to check each post to see if someone added a new comment -- unless you get the RSS feed. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of the entire blog (thereby getting notified when there's a new post), and you can subscribe to the RSS feed of a particular post (thereby getting notified when there's a new comment on that post). The RSS Reader makes it very easy to read new comments and posts as they are created. It has a look and feel kind of like an email program. Also, if you want, you can click the entry in your RSS Reader to jump to that new post (or comment), in order to add your own text to the conversation. Once you have your RSS Reader set up, subscribing to a new post is as easy as clicking the RSS symbol in the address bar (something like this:
).
Getting the RSS feed is also nice for when the blog has some down-time, and there is no new content for a few days. You don't want to have to go checking it every day with nothing there. Or if you left a particularly funny comment and are anxious to see reactions to it -- just watch the reader (which updates itself) for new content rather than reloading the blog post page.
There's only one down-side to having an RSS feed on our blog. Unfortunately, after a little looking around, there appears to be no way to do this if we have a private blog. But, you know, the blog really is private if nobody else knows that it exists. And we can make it private later, if need be. And we can move to a new address, too, if needed later.
To me, the benefits of having the RSS feed seem to far outweigh this downside. What do you guys think?
Let me explain how the RSS feed works. The idea is that you get an application called an "RSS Reader" which checks for updates on web pages that you "subscribe" to. That is, you subscribe to the RSS feed of a few web pages that interest you, such as blogs or photo websites or newspapers. That way you don't have to visit those websites to see what's new -- you get the new content right in your RSS Reader as soon as it's posted.
In our case, if there are four or five conversations (ie, blog posts) here that are getting new comments, you'll have to check each post to see if someone added a new comment -- unless you get the RSS feed. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of the entire blog (thereby getting notified when there's a new post), and you can subscribe to the RSS feed of a particular post (thereby getting notified when there's a new comment on that post). The RSS Reader makes it very easy to read new comments and posts as they are created. It has a look and feel kind of like an email program. Also, if you want, you can click the entry in your RSS Reader to jump to that new post (or comment), in order to add your own text to the conversation. Once you have your RSS Reader set up, subscribing to a new post is as easy as clicking the RSS symbol in the address bar (something like this:
).Getting the RSS feed is also nice for when the blog has some down-time, and there is no new content for a few days. You don't want to have to go checking it every day with nothing there. Or if you left a particularly funny comment and are anxious to see reactions to it -- just watch the reader (which updates itself) for new content rather than reloading the blog post page.
There's only one down-side to having an RSS feed on our blog. Unfortunately, after a little looking around, there appears to be no way to do this if we have a private blog. But, you know, the blog really is private if nobody else knows that it exists. And we can make it private later, if need be. And we can move to a new address, too, if needed later.
To me, the benefits of having the RSS feed seem to far outweigh this downside. What do you guys think?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sleepy Pete and the infinite
This is the real me. How often do we look for that person? This is the me that feels the most comfortable in my skin. 11:30 at night, small glass of whiskey, tired but compelled to move on, looking for a glimmer of truth. There it is... oh, nope, just an illusion in my periphery. I love this place, this time.
Hmmm?
I wonder...
erd
Hmmm?
I wonder...
erd
Comfortable with no meaning, I think.
I can only come up with other two choices? Religious beliefs or depression.
You know I can't go the religious route. It seems too ridiculous and outlandish. I would have to believe in fairy tales and Candy Mountain. I guess I do make up my own belief system, but I that is it's own topic. I also prefer the idea of "evidence" as Dawkins puts it.
Depression is a path I have taken a couple times. Nothing too serious, but I have been there. It may be a natural Paulson disposition or tendency. It is certainly not enjoyable nor is it productive. Of course, since there seems to be no meaning, why worry about production?
I know the most obvious answer is that "you make your own meaning, erik." I believe that every individual is the center of The Universe, so yeh, of course, each person defines their own meaning. Even this idea perturbs me a bit, 6.5 billion meanings, or purposes, to life? Come on.
Pleasure, personal pleasure. That is all I can come to as a come point for all those meanings or statements of purpose. I don't care if you are religious, depressed, or got your own idea. It all comes down to what you, the individual wants that meaning to be.
It is all up to you. Please choose correctly, so you don't F it up for me.
e
You know I can't go the religious route. It seems too ridiculous and outlandish. I would have to believe in fairy tales and Candy Mountain. I guess I do make up my own belief system, but I that is it's own topic. I also prefer the idea of "evidence" as Dawkins puts it.
Depression is a path I have taken a couple times. Nothing too serious, but I have been there. It may be a natural Paulson disposition or tendency. It is certainly not enjoyable nor is it productive. Of course, since there seems to be no meaning, why worry about production?
I know the most obvious answer is that "you make your own meaning, erik." I believe that every individual is the center of The Universe, so yeh, of course, each person defines their own meaning. Even this idea perturbs me a bit, 6.5 billion meanings, or purposes, to life? Come on.
Pleasure, personal pleasure. That is all I can come to as a come point for all those meanings or statements of purpose. I don't care if you are religious, depressed, or got your own idea. It all comes down to what you, the individual wants that meaning to be.
It is all up to you. Please choose correctly, so you don't F it up for me.
e
Saturday, April 18, 2009
What's goin' on?
How can I answer?
So many things go on in one moment. How do I, or should I, choose the right one? Each moment poses so many tangentials that any one is the "right one." The moment that I choose to work, and live, with is so very important because it will lead to different tangents. This choice goes on and on into the infinite. How many possible lives can I live? Of course I only live one of those, but think of all the other eriks out there (in those alternate universes)living with you, the alternate yous.
I can only express that I love the thought of being with another you in another universe. I am your brother in each universe.
Yours in every universe and time,
your brother,
e
So many things go on in one moment. How do I, or should I, choose the right one? Each moment poses so many tangentials that any one is the "right one." The moment that I choose to work, and live, with is so very important because it will lead to different tangents. This choice goes on and on into the infinite. How many possible lives can I live? Of course I only live one of those, but think of all the other eriks out there (in those alternate universes)living with you, the alternate yous.
I can only express that I love the thought of being with another you in another universe. I am your brother in each universe.
Yours in every universe and time,
your brother,
e
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I gotta a wine in my hand and two corndogs in my gut.
...and I sip and feel fine. Yeh, I feel fine.
I just got off my jog and I thought of you, my brother.
I just had what I consider a big event in my life happen. A possibility of a turning point in my life. Augs leaving me. Sure, not a total separation, but a hint of it, the foretelling of my future, a little insight of things to come. My time cone.
I thought of you, each of you. You have things in your lives, the center of your life for this moment and those moments to come.
Most obvious is Cliff, you gotta a few things on that plate, some of those major life changing things, where that time cone in front of you shifting all over. What opportunity for excitement and joy you have in that cone. New person in the family, that is, of course, one of the top 3 (arbitrarily chosen, but used to emphisize it's rank) life changing events any person can have. A new house and town, that's a biggie for changing the trajectory of life (maybe top 10). Talk about damn good luck on selling the house, you should really think about a short trip to Las Vegas real soon while you still have the groove going.
I now Archie is working at those same big changes in life. Looking for a new town and new job, like I said changes in the top 10. I understand you are thinking about making that more than just a top 10 move in the fact that you just might "settle down" which I think on an individual level that moves it to a top 5. Big changes. I know, and can emapthize with, the making a baby thing you are going through, I lived it. I have jerked off into my fair share of plastic bottles! On a more serious note I know the disappointments that come from such a great effort can really suck. The only advice I can give is to keep on jerking off into those bottles and to always keep in mind that it is impossible to go outside that time cone.
I thought of Chris's deal of the moment, on the surface it doesn't seem so big, but I say that is because it doesn't have the emotional quality of the other life changing events. Well, I guess I have to admit it probably isn't really very life changing, I would have to put it in the top 200 or 300. That does not keep it for it's value and importance to being in the moment. Being alive and what we are doing in our life should be at the top of is important in our lives. I am talking about all the work and effort in putting in your flooring. I have experienced that as well and can appriciate what it means to the moment and to your dreaming of what is contained in that time cone in front of you.
Well, I have gone off enough and really said nothing. I want to leave you with the knowledge that you are all in the time cone ahead of me, you are at the point of time that I am in right now as I am in the point with you while you are reading this.
I love you brother.
e
I just got off my jog and I thought of you, my brother.
I just had what I consider a big event in my life happen. A possibility of a turning point in my life. Augs leaving me. Sure, not a total separation, but a hint of it, the foretelling of my future, a little insight of things to come. My time cone.
I thought of you, each of you. You have things in your lives, the center of your life for this moment and those moments to come.
Most obvious is Cliff, you gotta a few things on that plate, some of those major life changing things, where that time cone in front of you shifting all over. What opportunity for excitement and joy you have in that cone. New person in the family, that is, of course, one of the top 3 (arbitrarily chosen, but used to emphisize it's rank) life changing events any person can have. A new house and town, that's a biggie for changing the trajectory of life (maybe top 10). Talk about damn good luck on selling the house, you should really think about a short trip to Las Vegas real soon while you still have the groove going.
I now Archie is working at those same big changes in life. Looking for a new town and new job, like I said changes in the top 10. I understand you are thinking about making that more than just a top 10 move in the fact that you just might "settle down" which I think on an individual level that moves it to a top 5. Big changes. I know, and can emapthize with, the making a baby thing you are going through, I lived it. I have jerked off into my fair share of plastic bottles! On a more serious note I know the disappointments that come from such a great effort can really suck. The only advice I can give is to keep on jerking off into those bottles and to always keep in mind that it is impossible to go outside that time cone.
I thought of Chris's deal of the moment, on the surface it doesn't seem so big, but I say that is because it doesn't have the emotional quality of the other life changing events. Well, I guess I have to admit it probably isn't really very life changing, I would have to put it in the top 200 or 300. That does not keep it for it's value and importance to being in the moment. Being alive and what we are doing in our life should be at the top of is important in our lives. I am talking about all the work and effort in putting in your flooring. I have experienced that as well and can appriciate what it means to the moment and to your dreaming of what is contained in that time cone in front of you.
Well, I have gone off enough and really said nothing. I want to leave you with the knowledge that you are all in the time cone ahead of me, you are at the point of time that I am in right now as I am in the point with you while you are reading this.
I love you brother.
e
Sunday, April 12, 2009
the thing speaks for itself
Anyone want to place bets on how long this blog will last?
First step is to get us all on here as authors and contributors. The idea is that we are all owners of this thing, so go ahead and change the look, make new posts, et cetera.
Second step is to pick a name for it. Res Ipsa Loquitor is just a placeholder to get this thing started. Please feel free to change the name yourself if you got a good one.
The third (and evolving) step will be to come up with some good use for this forum. Things like
First step is to get us all on here as authors and contributors. The idea is that we are all owners of this thing, so go ahead and change the look, make new posts, et cetera.
Second step is to pick a name for it. Res Ipsa Loquitor is just a placeholder to get this thing started. Please feel free to change the name yourself if you got a good one.
The third (and evolving) step will be to come up with some good use for this forum. Things like
- developing our philosophy of Life, the Universe and Everything
- commenting on a book we could read
- talk about tunes we like (and share), or movies to recommend
- miscellaneous chit chat
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