Sometimes I wonder if all the legwork, reading, research and studying will pay off, how I will be able to weave something I read about philosophy years ago into practical circumstance. The last few weeks have brought me a deeper understand on the sublime and the beautiful, something Edmund Burke articulated so well. A volcano [...]
the day before leaving i asked a sampling of Germans for the translation of ‘Zombie,’ and got mixed results — Since about Thursday of last week I’ve been in that state, information overload, sensory overload, figuring out logistics on the fly, etc – needless to say when i’m an old man sitting on a porch [...]
one of the most extraordinary days in my life, one to tell kiddos if i ever have em’ starting the day in kuwait city with a romanian model, on to istanbul, on to rome — life is fascinating, tiring and re-assuring…. thinking in my mind, i got this – will be writing more soon
I’ve never cared about eating words, but seeing WASTE and making wasteful decision is taxing on the brain. growing up under very humble conditions makes the extravagance worse, and wading through complicated life decisions has ceased to be fun, at least for now. I CANT WAIT for the time I can sit on a couch somewhere [...]
at some point do you wake up and accept the fact that you probably won’t be figuratively ‘selling out stadiums’ like the beatles or stones? at some point do you understand you don’t have the talent to sum it up in 5 words, such as ‘i cant get no satisfaction’ — some point you understand [...]
my writing has gotten tame over the last year or so, i guess a response to a balance in stimuli, funny how that works – the more self proclaimed ‘objective’ you get the less vocal opinion you have on the grind of the world. is the middle the right place to be? that is the [...]