This mish-mash format seemed like fun, and I fought this month with an overflow of ideas to write about, so I thought I’d take a stab at it to clean house a bit and have fun with a shorter format that showcases my actual scatterbrain. So here is a mashup of shorter ideas that could have been posts but I did this instead.
Mornin’ Pull-Ups
Me and my girls do a round of pull-ups every morning if we’re able. I often leave before they get up during the week, but when we are together, they always come up to me first thing.
Mornin’ pull-ups?
They look up anxiously with puppy dog eyes (they do it consciously, so I don’t let it get me too much)
Mornin’ Pull-Ups!
I exclaim, not one to let whatever I may be going through get in the way of my kids’ developing a fun and positive relationship with strength and fitness -
I spot them through as many reps as they want, then use their enthusiasm to renew my own personal commitment to fitness…so I can muster it up if I have to and follow suit. I walk over the the bar and shake out my shoulders.
Mornin’, Pull-Ups ;)
Irons in the fire
Have you heard that expression? I have like 6 open drafts I’ve really interested in finishing. I have this mish-mash post that I’m using to catch all the stragglers, and if they grow too big I make them into drafts of their own…at one post per day, I’ll never get to say it all.
I’ll get sick of writing at some point.
Ok, fair enough, finally something we can agree on. I guess I can just work on them at whatever pace I’m able, but whatever isn’t complete when the next creative cycle picks up, that gets thrown out. I don’t work on stale posts..not in an idea economy this overstimulated anyway. Basic supply and demand dictate there’s no way I won’t throw out at least a few seemingly great ideas each month.
*whatever, dude
6-9 7:16 Sexy ghost
Pink Floyd fan? You know something I love? It’s that part of Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt 6-9, at about seven minutes and 16 seconds, when they have this like, sexy ghost kind of instrumental part. It’s something I always love but seldom talk about…and now you know.
and knowing is half the battle
On the Capacity for Violence
I was thinking about having a son as I was driving to get my car inspected. I was pondering the lessons I’ll teach him, what they’ll be and when he’ll learn them - all the while, in the background I am aware that none of this will go as planned. Many of these lessons I will forget or at least never remember at the right time, or I’ll remember but won’t be able to get them across.
I expect I’ll get to convey to my children about 5% of what my dreams hold for them.
One thing I want my children to understand, is the virtue and nobility that is seated within the capacity for violence. Sound crazy?
Note, there is an ocean between capacity and propensity.
Further, the virtue of non-violence only exists within the larger sphere of capacity for violence. For a man who is non-violent because he lacks the capacity, his non-violence is not a virtue but a vice. If a threat should arise on this guy’s watch, his greatest ally will be his ability and willingness to outsource the honor and nobility that come from protecting others…he is capable of calling other men with the capacity he lacks, to handle the work - but in so doing, he forfeits the virtue that was his for the proving. That’s not to say we all need to be macho, or that men incapable of violence don’t deserve respect. I’m just saying, this is something I value.
The best and strongest of us, uplift our brothers and sisters of Earth. Strength carries the capacity for many potentials, just like a hammer.
I think a propensity for violence is a bad thing (How to use a big boy word in a little boy sentence LOL).
There will always be those for whom the capability of or capacity for violence comes easier than others, but we can all develop it if we will to.
Sounds kind of like I'm advocating for some kind of crazy shit to go down...
All I guess I'm saying, is that if there are shitloads of us people here on earth, and some of us are more or less prone to being capable of violence, it should also then be easy to foresee that not all of those with the propensity for violence would also be capable of it, and that some percentage of those would be willing to employ such means to their own benefit.
If and when that happens, what are the odds that there will be someone nearby who is capable of doing some violence on your behalf, if you can't be that someone? If it happens to someone else in trouble and you bear witness, having pondered this for yourself even if only in this moment, will you not wish that you had developed your human abilities in this regard?
Playing Flute to Heavy Metal while Driving a Car
GONE
The Watch
Ever since I decided I wanted it, I acted like I already had it. I trained like it was already on my wrist, storing up and aggregating data points in order to provide me with a meaningful analysis of my performance, in the light of my planned goals.
I allowed myself to feel the feeling of waking up to find new insights about my sleep and envisioned the leaps and bounds I was making with my lucid dreaming.
I avoided alternatives that were offered to me. There is but one, and it is already mine.
...and it was true, from the perspective of the timeless eternal now, the version of me that owned and loved his watch already existed somewhere in the hologram, I just had to track in on the right spot.
Meanwhile, back in the fourth dimension where change occurs at the speed of mud being shoved through a tube sock, it had been few years comin'.
Now it's here.
...but in the timeless eternal now, it is also already...
GONE
You Can Call Me James GanDOLPHINi
...I guess I'm a dolphin now...that's cool...
Dinner at TacoBaby
See It???
...here, let me zoom in...
I love crows!!!!
…and I don’t talk about it as often, but you know who else I just love the hell out of!??
BEES!!!
Oh I Almost Forgot!
Sketch(es) of the day!
This crow looked noble, esteemed.
My daughter asked me today:
*Just cuz you can make a sound like a crow, how do you know what you’re actually saying???
I thiught about how this might look from a crow’s perspective:
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