New, new, new.
Ever see the waters part and the path light up like bioluminescence in the night ocean? I have. And when I have, I have been right every time. I ended up here, that way.
Merry...stuff. Festivus, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Winter Solstice, life......whatever it is you want to celebrate.
A random person punched the lights out of one of my best friends this morning. For no reason at all. Dude walked up, asked for the time, clocked my buddy and ran off with his phone. And yet he was still able (my buddy, that is) to make jokes, drink the champy and eat some seriously decadent food in enjoyment.
I'm on this perspective kick and this damn blog is coming off more like a diary than I'd really like, but whatevs. Ish happens. Plus, I am at that perfect point where the chilled air of the night is flooding in the windows and mixing with the heated air inside, while I listen to my boy Miguel and stare out the windows at a couple hundred years of history, a couple months of personal evolution and a couple weeks of ear to ear grins.
Swept away willingly by the strongest tide.....floating on my back, music in my ears, staring up at the infinity of the stars.
Awwww SHIT!
25 December, 2012
21 December, 2012
first day....
I'll do the obligatory 'it's the end of the world and we know it....and I feel fiiiiiine', thing. Got to give something up to REM for coining the phrase that is probably being most used today and for the next few days.
But seriously....if this is what the end of the world - or an era - feels like, well sign me up. Haven't been so happy or hopeful in half a decade. I woke up this morning feeling amazing, with all smiles and I'm hoping this continues in perpetuity, 'cause I could get used to that shit, for sure.
And this has me thinking.....whether or not the end of whatever is metaphorical or real, isn't it a perfect time to take stock and live with intention - like it really is the first day of the rest of your life? And wouldn't it be nice to start right now and make a habit of finding joy somewhere in every day? It's there for the finding, just a matter of attitude and perspective.
Happy first day of the world....
But seriously....if this is what the end of the world - or an era - feels like, well sign me up. Haven't been so happy or hopeful in half a decade. I woke up this morning feeling amazing, with all smiles and I'm hoping this continues in perpetuity, 'cause I could get used to that shit, for sure.
And this has me thinking.....whether or not the end of whatever is metaphorical or real, isn't it a perfect time to take stock and live with intention - like it really is the first day of the rest of your life? And wouldn't it be nice to start right now and make a habit of finding joy somewhere in every day? It's there for the finding, just a matter of attitude and perspective.
Happy first day of the world....
17 December, 2012
guns
But assault weapons? No. No way is that necessary in our society today, or ever. No way is it a good idea to keep yourself or your kids locked away in a room staring at a screen and fake-killing people. No way is it okay to get off on violence of any kind. I don't believe violence and cruelty are dominant tenets of human nature. Those things are cultivated, those fires stoked by a culture steeped in one-upsmanship and sensationalism.
Today Joe Scarborough - someone for whom I have respect but with whom I often don't agree - gave a stunning monologue on his show. When a guy of such previously unshakable conviction becomes introspective and changes his beliefs, I think it is worth some attention.
It's time to change. Now. One change will affect more change and that can only serve as a way to start reversing our society's tragic outlook on violence. I agree wholeheartedly with you on this one, Joe. And I am going to look into how I can be a part of affecting change.
10 December, 2012
grits
I went to Ted's Bulletin for breakfast again this morning (Sunday). That place never, ever disappoints. Probably because they have "adult milkshakes". Look 'em up. Today they had the special - which our cute waiter said "was descended upon and devoured by the staff, at tasting" - consisting of a house smoked salmon cake atop grits, with a poached egg, drizzled with hollandaise. It was decadent and amazing. I will think about that meal for a while. I will also probably do an extra two hours of steady state this week to make up for it, but it was worth every bite.
The people at the table next to us were doing daytime drinking and were apparently quite a ways into that process. Other people's drunkenness is only fun when you, too, are drinking. When you are tired or have a slight tinge of hangover and just want to bury your face in the plate of joy in front of you, their antics are only annoying. Nothing is so funny to require a round of belly-laughs every ten minutes on a Sunday morning, jerks.
Isn't that how it is? The nonsense is only funny when it's your nonsense. Otherwise, you will sit there all like 'oh emm gee what the crap is wrong with these obnoxious scamps?' Because, deep down we are all a bunch of hypocrites.
Later, I found a chef's knife that I will now fixate on, at Union Market, once we rolled ourselves away from brunch. The gentleman I spoke with was advising me while sharpening a $900 knife on a whetstone. I want to be of the means where I could walk into a marketplace and just pick up a $900 chef's knife, for fun. If I could do that however, I could probably also afford a $26 sandalwood and tobacco candle and a $41 old apothecary bottle, which I would purchase for decorative purposes and then put in the chotchky section of my kitchen.
Of course, I need a kitchen that can handle a chotchky section, first. But man, those grits and salmon were out of control.
The people at the table next to us were doing daytime drinking and were apparently quite a ways into that process. Other people's drunkenness is only fun when you, too, are drinking. When you are tired or have a slight tinge of hangover and just want to bury your face in the plate of joy in front of you, their antics are only annoying. Nothing is so funny to require a round of belly-laughs every ten minutes on a Sunday morning, jerks.
Isn't that how it is? The nonsense is only funny when it's your nonsense. Otherwise, you will sit there all like 'oh emm gee what the crap is wrong with these obnoxious scamps?' Because, deep down we are all a bunch of hypocrites.
Later, I found a chef's knife that I will now fixate on, at Union Market, once we rolled ourselves away from brunch. The gentleman I spoke with was advising me while sharpening a $900 knife on a whetstone. I want to be of the means where I could walk into a marketplace and just pick up a $900 chef's knife, for fun. If I could do that however, I could probably also afford a $26 sandalwood and tobacco candle and a $41 old apothecary bottle, which I would purchase for decorative purposes and then put in the chotchky section of my kitchen.
Of course, I need a kitchen that can handle a chotchky section, first. But man, those grits and salmon were out of control.
02 December, 2012
party's over
I am repeatedly struck and horrified by the ignorance and misplaced zealotry of the greater right wing. I am disturbed by the polarization of our country and appalled by the staunchness and commitment to telling and retelling untruths and counting them as fact.
Here are some facts:
1. Global warming is a real thing.
1a. Attempts by the Koch brothers, et al, to squash legislation to reduce the U.S.'s carbon footprint and invest in alternative energies cost us the ability to be at the forefront of developing that technology and creating thousands jobs. You'll note that job creation is how they justify their putrid existence.
2. What people do in their bedrooms - provided it is consensual - is none of your business.
3. The decisions a woman makes about her body and all things related to it, including whether or not to give birth, should she be impregnated, is also none of your business.
4. Religion has no place in government.
5. Antiquated white men are not the proper group to be making decisions for a country that is completely diversified, yet has no representation to reflect said diversity.
6. Anger and a lack of dialogue that is minded toward compromise and forward progress is stunting.
7. A lack of regulation, leads to crises in nearly every single area where regulation has been proposed. as it pertains to financial matters, see: stock market crash and subsequent depression, see also, market crash of 2008 and subsequent deep recession, still existing today.
I can go on and on and on, but in short, we are in a terrible state where swaths of untraveled, uneducated masses seem to believe that god and assault weapons are somehow platforms for logical decision making.
Tea party, you disgust me.
Here are some facts:
1. Global warming is a real thing.
1a. Attempts by the Koch brothers, et al, to squash legislation to reduce the U.S.'s carbon footprint and invest in alternative energies cost us the ability to be at the forefront of developing that technology and creating thousands jobs. You'll note that job creation is how they justify their putrid existence.
2. What people do in their bedrooms - provided it is consensual - is none of your business.
3. The decisions a woman makes about her body and all things related to it, including whether or not to give birth, should she be impregnated, is also none of your business.
4. Religion has no place in government.
5. Antiquated white men are not the proper group to be making decisions for a country that is completely diversified, yet has no representation to reflect said diversity.
6. Anger and a lack of dialogue that is minded toward compromise and forward progress is stunting.
7. A lack of regulation, leads to crises in nearly every single area where regulation has been proposed. as it pertains to financial matters, see: stock market crash and subsequent depression, see also, market crash of 2008 and subsequent deep recession, still existing today.
I can go on and on and on, but in short, we are in a terrible state where swaths of untraveled, uneducated masses seem to believe that god and assault weapons are somehow platforms for logical decision making.
Tea party, you disgust me.
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