Monthly Archives: April 2009
Taking a Short Break
I’m taking a short break from blogging. I should be back in action by the end of the week.
Filed under About This Blog
A Late Night Thought on Backsliding
It seems to me it is ineffective to try to change ourselves through praising or condemning our thoughts, feelings, or behavior. Whatever changes that method might bring about appear to be temporary. We always backslide when we adopt that method.
Filed under Ethics, Goals, Late Night Thoughts, Learning, Values
Wish Me Luck!
It’s past two in the morning yet I’m still awake — far too excited to sleep — because I’m close, so very close, to folding a successful “paper” airplane out of a no-cholesterol, whole wheat, burrito-size tortilla. Quite possibly, I … Continue reading
Filed under Miscellaneous
Saturday’s Nude for April 18, 2009
Butler Wash by Mark Sink I think this week’s image could be from a dream — perhaps of the Earth Mother known to mythology. That effect might very well be intentional. Some of Sink’s other works are clearly influenced by … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Nudes, Photography, Saturday's Nude, Visual Arts
The Albany and Mental Health
Sometime in the mid 90s, I moved into an old hotel in downtown Colorado Springs that had been converted into tiny apartments. The rents at the Albany were expensive — about twice what you would pay for the same space … Continue reading
Filed under Anhedonism, Depression, Emotions, Health, Mental and Emotional Health, Mysticism, Quality of Life, Spirituality, Therapy
A Late Night Thought on Happiness and Pleasure
So very often we think we are pursuing happiness when instead we are pursuing pleasure.
Filed under Happiness, Late Night Thoughts, Pleasure, Quality of Life, Spirituality
Mysteries of the Restless Mind
I am not a profound man, but sometimes I am a curious one. And so, I embarked on a series of light meditations over the past couple of days to find out whatever I might about the nature and movements … Continue reading
How To Test One’s Working Relationship With Reality?
I just woke up a few moments ago and, judging from the clumsiness of my stumbling about the apartment, I am not on a healthy, working relationship with reality, yet. Either that, or I’ve been managing to drink beer in … Continue reading
Filed under Miscellaneous
A Late Night Thought on Being True to Yourself
Being true to yourself is when what you feel, what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. This is also called, “authenticity”.
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