the night brought some great rain to the area, wiping out the haze, to reveal a beautiful mountain range and a cool gentle breeze. spent the day color coding different aspects of things to stay organized while destroying, to rebuild stronger. the job is awesome, i’ll have plenty of flex room to do some cool [...]
often while reading the manual or following the sop or digesting information, we forget those books of lamentations are old and stale, we forget to admire the questions, and we forget to follow our own paths. in pressfield’s book ‘the war of art’, he talks about ‘angels’ that help us find our way, josh ritter [...]
sitting at flightpath coffee in austin texas, remembering the times when i made a lot of time for blogging, before the 84 hour typical week and no stimuli in the desert. i think about the things that could potentially be out of the hands of god, and the redefinition of what a ‘crisis’ is in [...]
josh ritter’s new album takes the tone of that of a Spanish conquistador discovering the new world. life’s endeavours seem similar, josh’s imagery says, “all I’ve got are my guts and my God and the Annabelle Lee.” Similarly we have our intuition, philosophy and our vessel for life, our body. 6 weeks and 6 days [...]
Life in Baghdad-e-o isn’t all that bad, long hours, hard work, don’t even know where to begin with all those. Just walk with an authoritative walk and do you job, I guess that’s the way to roll – Teamwork is big out here, which is AWESOME — Pile A needs to get into building, everyone [...]
4 am venture to the loo’s this morning reveals the moon / star that’s present on the flag of Islam, man and his symbols. It’s safe to say that ‘things’ move 3-4 times quicker here than back home, strip the frivolous politics from you day to day work environment and you get what you have [...]
More bullet points until cohesive though can sink in – I haven’t seen bigotry here, people, political, religious, etc — the caricature I saw of the war fighter or those that support it has always taken a ‘conservative’ stance, I see the question framed differently here. The ant nest has been kicked, now you have [...]
Last post from the US of A for a while, heading to partake in a risk / reward scenario overseas. What to bring, a good attitude at the least. With a belly somewhat unsettled and an open mind, I can see a decoupling of societal constructs, it’ll only do me well. The mind always imagines [...]
Today begins a new journey, or as Monty Pyton would say, ‘and now for something completely different.’ I’ve always talked about perspective, but find myself staying in my mental ‘safe’ zone. The more you look, the more you realize the facts are so far removed from our ‘civilized’ and advanced societies that everything is abstact, [...]
Once someone told Thoreau, there’s a new invention, the telegraph, and it allows someone in Maine to talk to someone in Texas almost in real time. Thoreau’s response, ‘what would they have to say to each other.’ Fast forward a short time and you have a society faced with a new psychology. A quote that [...]