Time, joy, fear, and the unknown.

Time is something so pliable that no one experiences it quite the same way. You can be driving in through the farm lands of lower Ontario and pick up on every difference or similarity to your home that time stretches farther than it has since you were six-years-old. In contrast, things can weigh you downContinue reading “Time, joy, fear, and the unknown.”

I’m just not good at this.

There are lots of things that I do well, asking or receiving of things is not one of them. I’m independent to a fault and I typically feel like receiving things should make me feel guilty. Tumblr, however, has become my stream of conscious… except I get to share it with everyone (even the lurkers). Since I don’t ask for things well,Continue reading “I’m just not good at this.”

good: Today, senior editor Cord Jefferson notes that the Norwegian killings shouldn’t be seen by anyone as points on scoreboard:  It’s easy to gloat right now. It’s easy for liberals to mock right-wing zealots. It’s easy for atheists to mock the faithful. It’s easy for Muslims to mock Christians. But what we forget, amid allContinue reading

Learn to hear yourself. My writing voice is really the voice in my head. It’s not how I talk aloud, but how I talk to myself, in the noisy cavern of my skull. I listen to myself talk, inside, and that’s the voice I try to get down in writing. Leo Babauta – http://zenhabits.net/voice/ Yes. EvenContinue reading