Reality Me

Category: Philosophy

Think deep.

  • Quote of the Day

    I have an ever increasing respect for Matt Damon. To me, he seems less like an actor pretending to be a political activist and more like a political activist who happens to be an actor. He definitely has the mental capacities to back it up where other actors have just used their fame as a platform without the brains required to support their stance.

    …change comes from the bottom up; always has, always will. “That goes for today, too. We can’t wait for Barack Obama to just fix things. We have to be in his ear. That’s our job as engaged citizens. –Matt Damon [Source, OpenNews.com]

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Spent the night trying to wake up.
    Master: Exhausting way to sleep.

  • Poetry at 70 mph

    I tapped this out on my phone after cresting the hill south bound before the I-40/Pellissippi Parkway exchange. My normal glance at the peaks of the Smoky Mountains was obscured. The weather inspiring.

    There are no mountains today. A cloud blankets the horizon. More so, it blankets us all. @djuggler

    Theo Aukerman suggests this could become a Haiku.

    With slight mods, could be a haiku: … @knoxcoder

    So how’s this?

    No mountains today
    Cloud blankets the horizon
    It blankets us all.

    Hmm. I may have a thing or two to learn about meter versus moras ("on").

    One on is counted for a short syllable, an additional one for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an “n” at the end of a syllable. Thus, the word “haibun”, though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese (ha-i-bu-n). Source, Wikipedia, Haiku

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Self-doubt.
    Master: No doubt.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I have purpose again.
    Master: You’ve always had purpose.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: What I want to do and need to do are not the same.
    Master: Split your attention between each and accomplish neither.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: This is not the path I thought I was walking.
    Master: Do you have a map?

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Is this what failure feels like?
    Master: Have you quit?

  • Too stressed to type

    Thy todoth list overfloweth. Nay, thine own muse shouts silence. Gagged. Hiding in thy shadows within the deepest recesses of mine own mind. Today’s stories shall be passed upon to giveth thy brain a necessary reprieve such as tomorrow’s adventures shall be retold with vigor! William eat thine own heart out with a spork!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Can it suck more?
    Master: Yes.

  • Of Being Dad – Do what you say

    One of my mantras is "Say what you are going to do then do what you say." A child never forgets. If you promise a child you will do something, do it! Our calendars says that the movie Up is released on DVD today. When we saw Up in the theaters, I promised Amy she and I would go see the 3-D version as a father/daughter date. Life got in the way. The movie came and went. And today, she reminded me that I failed to deliver on that promise. Not a good feeling.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Life is weird. Hasn’t turned out at all as I expected.
    Master: You had a plan?!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: All I can see is the problem.
    Master: If you only look at the problem, you will never see the solution.

  • Coming or going?

    Sometimes, I feel like I’m done. Other times, I feel like I’ve just begun.

  • I’m an organ donor

    On Oct 24, I turned 40. This week I renewed my driver’s license and for the first time checked the organ donor box.

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