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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

World Theatre Day - Dario Fo

World Theatre Day - Dario Fo

Today is World Theatre Day!


Advice - On Boredom

The point of feeling bored in a long car ride is to learn patience.

You sit there, with nothing to do but wait. You're trapped, you have nowhere to go. You can stare out the window, but there's nothing new. It's just an eternity of monotony.

But the truth:

There's no eternity of monotony. Sit there, and eventually you'll get to where you're going, through no action of your own. Things change if you do nothing. Things change if you be patient, quiet down, and simply wait.

You get what you want, that is, to get to your destination, through doing an action: wait in silence while nothing happens.

Want to avoid knee-jerk reactionism? Spend five hours driving without a radio to listen to.

Want to think rationally after a fight? Sit in a room with your anger and stare at a wall until you fall asleep.

Meditation is little more than letting the nothingness of what is happening to you overtake you.

Boredom is resistance to that nothingness.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Life - Gnossienne

Life - Gnossienne


n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

#Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Observations - Airports

Observations - Airports

There's nothing quite like sitting in an airport for two hours to make you really begin to notice how truly different we all look as humans.  Different in the way we act, dress, move, even respond to one another.  There's something amazingly and truly diverse about this particular ecosystem.  Most public places cater to a certain type of person, or a certain economic class or race, but in some ways you just don't see that the same way in an airport.

I guess there are all the people who can't afford to fly, but that's a thing I suppose.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Michael Moore - Don't Look Away

Michael Moore - Don't Look Away

Michael Moore posted in his blog today, the link and article are below.  It's hard to put into words what exactly you feel about it, a couple months after the fact.  It's still visceral, and in many cases you want to stop reading, you feel compelled to stop for your own sanity's sake.  But you have to keep reading, because it is difficult, and troubling, and horrifying.  But it bears witnessing.

Hopefully the day he talks about is coming soon.


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Life - Set Time Aside

Life - Set Time Aside

I have a smart phone.  I have a smart phone of the latest brand, and quality, running the latest operating system.  I have a smart phone that hooks up to a bluetooth headset that I can control with the sound of my voice, and I'm teaching it to respond to my eye movements (the galaxy s3 is a wonder).  I have a computer that is always on, and a myriad of very specific, encrypted ways to get into it from wherever I am so I can access my data, be they pictures, or music, or algorithms, save files, programs, utilities.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Life - Kenopsia

Life - Kkenopsia

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

#Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Amanda Palmer - The Art of Asking

Amanda Palmer - The Art of Asking

I just recently watched a quick Ted Talk by Amanda Palmer, called The Art of Asking.  It is a pretty recent one and is currently going viral all over the 'interwebs'.

http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking.html

I'm writing this post as a place holder intending to reflect considerably more on it later.  But thought I'd share it for now.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Advice - On Moving On

Advice - On Moving On

One of my hobbies...reading the bestof threads in Reddit once in a while.  People are on occasion truly eloquent or give advice or moments of clarity in a way that you had never truly considered before.  This one is a piece from a person with the nickname 'ChubbyDane' who wrote in response to someone saying "How do I move on?"