Did you come here to think? Good!

I realize I haven't done one of these in a while. Sooooooo...thoughts:

Earth is our home, and our home is a gift, and it's a gift we share.

Even though we can do something, should we? And why shouldn't we do something? And why should we? In everything that we do, who does it matter to?

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” And yet...

We've measured our own selves, torn us to pieces, in order to figure out how we (and the rest of the world) work. We've created a mental disconnect that allows us to act on an attempt at controlling every little thing. Maps, writing, pictures. When you delineate, you break things to pieces. But in those pieces, you work to better understand, even if what you can understand is only a small fraction of the whole.

The world is many shades and combinations, mixing. Variety is the spice of life. But variation is complex and difficult to understand (or control), so we simplify it.

"...All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;" -- From: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

In some things, order does matter.

One definition of intelligence is the ability to discern that there is wisdom in everything, but you hold the compass and how you allow that wisdom to guide you or not is your choice. There is intelligence in saying, you had some good points, but I don't fully agree with you. There is intelligence in seeing how a simplified statement can do a lot of good and a lot of bad depending on how it is used, like the above. Depending on how you use order as something that matters, you can place restraints that need not be there on some things. Heuristics are not perfect and should not be used for all things. No rule of thumb rules all (maybe not even this one).

Extremes are interconnected, and neither of them should “win”.

Learn to play more. Enjoy more. Learn what you can do with your own hands, your own mind, your own heart, if you gave yourself the time.

Success and failure both result in learning.

The way to defeat evil is to replace it with good. Now, how is that applied?

When you name something, you've chosen to care about it.

What is your culture? What is our culture?

Perspective is a matter of scale, and everything we do creates scope.

Consider our scope when we employ time as a factor. What matters today? What matters in a year? What matters in a million years? A billion? What mattered a hundred years ago?

And how how we think about the above changes our actions.

What matters more - the vision or the plan to achieve it? Stupid question, they both matter.

Life is as hollow and as shallow as you make it. If you want more, it's there, always.

What is a conversation? What can be and is talked about? What are the limits of conversation? All of these questions can be answered by understanding language structure.

What is enough?

Our desire to populate space stems from a very basic will to survive.

We are more than the sum of all our parts.

"We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use." - From the Tao Te Ching

I'm learning to appreciate the seen and unseen.

What questions are worth asking?

In our culture today, is questioning antagonistic?

I have a respect for ginger root as a spice and a form. If you don't want to waste any of it, you don't have to. But using all of it requires a bit of imagination and patience. It's not so easily peeled like a carrot. It's not straight and simple. It's curved and complex and diverse in use. All hail ginger, and the smell it leaves on your hands.

Related to ginger: https://consideredkula.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/the-useless-tree-chuang-tzu-inspiration-pointe/

What are the goals of our society? What are your personal goals? To become something? To do something? To open yourself up to something? To know something?

Blunt honesty is sometimes nice to have in a friend.

Sometimes you tug at a piece of your life
And that piece is a person.
And with that person,
Comes all the other pieces,
Unraveling.

Music:
https://youtu.be/NivdmQJmLAc
https://youtu.be/f6jma9VQEls

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poem: What's in a Hurricane Name?

What’s in a Hurricane Name?

She was a Category 666 hurricane.

Not the kind that meteorologists named,

But she blew through me

in the season between June and November.

A storm with a sharp eye,

They couldn’t have named her if they tried

Because she was everywhere

And nowhere.

Wrecking homes, leaving debris

under my skin, pieces of sharp rock

that chipped off her stone heart

The doctors said couldn’t be

Removed. So I just hoarded

cans of soup in my pantry

Let the power go off in my head

And surrendered to the wind of her voice in my ear.

When December came, my liquid snow

melted inside her and I knew

Thunderstorms were coming

And we named them after her mother’s mother’s mother’s mother.

Space exploration, unique sets of expression, song writing, balance, gravity, Wonder Woman messages, Wendell Berry inspiration, identity, and more!

You know what's amazing? We've overcome or worked with our environment as a species to do things that other animals have never done. We didn't just look at the moon, we walked on it. We don't just say, "I have legs, I shouldn't fly." We look at other animals that can fly and say, "Let's figure that out!" Making wings, in a way that was only possible by understanding how flying could work for us. It's incredible. What we've done, and what we still might be able to do.

Why is it so satisfying to create unique sets of patterns of expression? A set of patterns that no one has created before. I also find it interesting that we can create these unique patterns of words or images, but the words or shapes we use to create with are, in isolation, so simple and familiar, so common. But every English teacher in the world will tell you to make it your own. And in part, you know it's not your own, not fully, but that unique set of patterns, that's what they want. 

I really enjoy writing songs, even if no one else hears them. There's something fun about driving home and listening to songs you wrote that no one else in the world is listening to, something fun and personal and perfect about it. Songs that make me laugh, that make me feel peace, tell or remember memories, or just express what's on my mind that day. And in an age where everything is shared, it's beautiful, in a way, to have something like that to yourself (even if I'm telling you, briefly, about it now).

We live individual lives. We experience individual existence. And yet we are part of something much bigger than that. Both are important, and struggle comes from deciding at which points in our lives which one is more important.

When you're so tired that you almost throw an entire coffee pot into the trash... #HappyFriday

Is gravity the reason for life? Putting things in one place. Collision of celestial bodies. Is it essential for life creation?

The important balance between preservation and exploration in the future. Not only on Earth, but in Space as well.

Wonder Woman messages: What you believe affects your actions. If you believe in love and its power over hate, you will fight against acts of violence that destroy peace and the ability to love.

Important to note that: 

Isolated and personal measures were taken to combat violence. 

She did not kill Doctor Poison, because she was trying to kill the INFLUENCE of humans (Aries), not the humans themselves, who can change based on influence. Although personifying influence essentially leads to the truth that influence has a carrier. Every virus needs a host.

"Sometimes you just have to

Go Einstein insane.

Let no one understand you,

And let them spend decades,

Trying to sort out your genius."

What does it mean for something to be infinite?

"The past, the wild horses of the West, run in my mind as I drive with the windows down, looking out, at the ages gone beneath the concrete, the asphalt desert on top of the cracked earth where men rode animals looking for water. I open the tap, or buy a bottle, with visions of them reaching a stream to find it dry." - inspired by Wendell Berry

How our perspective and level of attention changes over time.

Focus in storytelling.

One thing we learn in school is that school is merely only one environment to many environments that exist in the world.

What creates an atmosphere that allows people to question things?

Religion and identity. Politics and identity. The problem of delineation in creating identity and a non-fluid mindset in a changing world.

I lost the rest of what's in my brain, so...

Cheers dears.