I think we all play with the “danger” and “risk” of being ourself, a somewhat unruly bustle of shared space on an increasingly small planet. I keep changing my mind about how much I want to “put out here”. I flag and unflag decades like linens; shaking off the dust only to pitch them back […]
Shortly after my recent doctor’s appointment, I received a survey request about it. I was in the middle of requesting a correction to something inaccurately placed in my medical record as part of the doctor’s notes. As such, I wanted to give them the full time period they requested for processing and response – 48 […]
Being #based is being you. Not the “observer” you think of yourself as, but the actual, emergent being of you.
Company: Blizzard Entertainment Payment Processor: Adyen Infraction: Inability to decline permission to retain CC data after purchase. Judged bad faith as purchase of battletag change allows this decline, but subscription does not because….? (They don’t want you to have to explicitly renew. They know you most likely will forget. They will profit from helping it […]
There’s something liberating about the blank page. The initial thought is to just regurgitate the past; that somewhat odd manner of lingering over it as if it holds an inherent value or impact upon this “now” that I have not, knowingly or ignorantly, granted place, point, and purpose in my being, life, and mind. I […]
Once upon a time, I was obsessive about keeping, literally, everything I created. Every email. Every Usenet thread. Every article. Every assignment. Every. Single. Item. It was how I reminded myself who I was in a world ever ready to try and overwrite me to their own ends. I think it was about 2011 when […]
I have lived life with such asperity, I missed bliss, joy, and hilarity, I live now in calm austerity, Healing the mind with a quiet clarity. me, just now, just because In the executive center I know as “me”, this is the little placard that sits on the reception desk; all of which I fabricate […]
Today’s advice from the heart: Generate compassion for lowly beings, and especially avoid despising or humiliating them. Have no hatred for enemies, and no attachment for friends. This piece of advice is difficult for me because I am anything but a neutral mentality. I have little difficulty being kind, but curbing my emotions is hard […]
Today’s advice from the heart: Since the happiness, pleasure, and friends you gather in this life last only for a moment, put them all behind you. Since future lives last for a very long time, gather up riches to provide for the future. You will have to depart leaving everything behind, so do not be […]
Today’s advice form the heart: Profit and respect are nooses of the maras, so brush them aside like stones on the path. Words of praise and fame serve only to beguile us, therefore blow them away as you would blow your nose. I admit, I had to stop and research the word ‘respect’ for this […]