On Life

I’m an advocate for small. Maybe it was growing up with the Marxist idea that as the finished product of our labor gets abstracted from our day to day work, we lose meaning. Maybe it’s because hierarchies and institutions seem like giant soul-crushing entities. I like small business. And I hate it when a small [...]read more…

Certain problems with blogging have become apparent to me lately: 1) The casual format encourages random dumping of stuff rather than sifting and curating and development of ideas into cohesive, finished pieces. Like books. The more I read and learn, the less patience I have to sort through people’s process. Or my own for that [...]read more…

OK, it’s not about saving the world. Duh. It’s just about being in the world. According to my psychic friend, the 2012 thing is like this: we are all being pulled like a magnet toward awakening and being more conscious/happy. IE letting go of negative energy states and being pulled into higher ones. It’s happening [...]read more…

There is this concept of being a “maximizer” or a “satisficer”. Maximizers are always looking for the best of each thing. Satisficers are, basically, just decide on a good thing and be happy with it. They don’t go for “the perfect thing”, they go for “good enough for me”. A maximizer is like a perfectionist, [...]read more…

I found this scan of a collage postcard I made for my brother in January of 2004, one of my favorites: The word balloon reads: The Kingdom of God does not come if you watch for it. Nor will anyone be able to say, “It is here” or “It is there”. For the Kingdom of [...]read more…