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Friday, March 1, 2024
Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America
Friday, February 23, 2024
Finding Yourself: In Books
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change, and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Monday, March 20, 2023
Life at the Trinity Rescue Mission
In 1984 I went through a drug and alcohol program run by Trinity Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. It was free and lasted 90 days. Afterwards, I stayed at their rescue mission; in its old location at 901 Bay Street.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Albert Camus: Suicide in Czechoslovakia
According to the Greek myth, Sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock up to the top of a mountain, only to have the rock roll back down to the bottom every time he reaches the top. The gods were wise, Camus suggests, in perceiving that an eternity of futile labor is a hideous punishment.
Spark notes: The Myth of Sisyphus
Monday, February 27, 2023
Falling Into the Eternal Moment
The bad news is you are falling through the air;
Nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is there is no ground.
Monday, February 20, 2023
Scott Morrison: It’s Completely Up To You
Monday, February 13, 2023
The Zen of Walt Whitman
Considered one of America's most influential poets, Walt Whitman aimed to transcend traditional epics and eschew normal aesthetic form to mirror the potential freedoms to be found in America.
Read more: Biography
Monday, February 6, 2023
Scott Morrison: Life Without Purpose
Perhaps the most challenging thing for most of us to understand is simple, and if you examine it directly, the most obvious fact is that there is no such thing as a solid, separate, stable entity that I can call "myself."
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Inside of us is an inner psychopath waiting for the right moment to explode. All of us can remember such moments. You step into a crowded e...
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In 1984 I went through a drug and alcohol program run by Trinity Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. It was free and lasted 90 days. Af...
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The bad news is you are falling through the air; Nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there is no ground. Chogyam Trung...
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Happiness, freedom, and peace don't lie elsewhere, at some other time. It's up to you – this very instant – as you're looking at...
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Perhaps the most challenging thing for most of us to understand is simple, and if you examine it directly, the most obvious fact is that the...