Archive for the 'window to the soul' Category

Childhood Memories

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

I’ve found that I still have a lot of vivid snapshot memories from my childhood. Lots of stuff I hadn’t thought about in a very long time is still there, still swimming around in my head. Fragments of events long gone, lessons in impermanence, lessons in perspective, lessons in folly and wonder and futility and [...]

My insatiable thirst

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I think that everyone has something they can’t get enough of, to whatever end that leads. For some of us, that’s destructive impulses like alcohol or binge eating. For others it’s less destructive stuff like entertainment, or even potentially constructive stuff like exercise. My theory, though, is that everyone has something they’re like that with. [...]

Oh shit, I’m a real person now … (or: Temporal Inevitability and Me)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve been contracting for basically the last year or so. Before that, I was in class working towards graduation, and then working towards getting a job that pays well enough to pay back the student loans and … err … eat. It’s interesting though. Now that I’m a full-time employee with a permanent position, I’ve [...]

Local water

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Do you ever think to yourself something along the lines of … “I am amazed by what I’m seeing, and I will be back tomorrow to see it again and to photograph it” only to learn that tomorrow it will be gone? So about a block away from my house, there’s a wooded area that [...]

colds suck, and 9 other unfinished thoughts:

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Rather than try to shape the random things floating around in my head into coherent, readable whole-posts (and thus spending several hours I don’t really have to spare right now, thanks to wanting to sleep), I’m just going to give them to you in half-finished one-liner form: 1: When you lose weight (by burning fat, [...]