0551 – any issues?
A: I was asked if I have any issues. B: Well, do you? A: I don’t know. Doesn’t everybody? What is an issue? B: Wel
0550 – a life of quiet desperation
(fiction) There’s a guy who’s stuck in a dead-end office job. Every day gets out of the box box he calls home and gets int
0549 – write true sentences
What does it take to write a piece of fiction? You have to start with something. You could start with a person, or perhaps a p
0548 – go running every week for mental clarity
I just got home from a run. I found myself thinking, as I often do after my infrequent, irregular runs, that my mind was feeli
0547 – “if everyone were zombies”
It’s interesting to me that so many teenagers develop the idea that nobody understands them, that they’re uniquely self-aw
0546 – the future of my words
Some writing comes more easily than others. Some writing requires cross-referencing with other work, and that’s always a
0545 – find humor in your dark times
There’s an enticing idea in the game of Zen and spirituality and philosophy and whatnot, which goes something like this:
0544 – a man lives in a box
A man lives in a box. He has lived for 9,409 days, and has been living in the box for 1,155 days. It’s a pretty nice box
0543 – writing as joyful self-correspondence
I suspect that I might have already written a word vomit about this but another one won’t hurt, since I’ve found m
0542 – more good than bad, please
The time is 330am. I got in bed at midnight. I’m not sure if I fell asleep at any point, but it was 2am when I found mys
0541 – forgotten gods
Questions: there’s a relationship between the ‘power’ of a god and how/why people believe in it (consider how greek myth