You ever heard of the “Mandela Effect”? Long story short, it’s a mass delusion. This will probably mess you up, ie examples of many, many Mandela Effects: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g28438966/mandela-effect-examples/ To (more…)
Newsletter #0053 – “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground”.
The title is a famous African (apocryphal, attributed) proverb. That an entire person’s experiences and thoughts disappear into nothing when we shuffle our mortal coil, and it’s tantamount to the death (more…)
Newsletter #0052 – Where we’re going, we don’t need the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder, misery, and fornication.
I had the Back to the Future “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” line as the subject line for a bit, but once again Werner pops into life in an unexpected way. This clip of Werner Herzog lives (more…)
Newsletter #0051 – “Count no man happy until the end is known.”
We tired of the rain yet? The subject line is from an old Greek parable. Here’s the whole story, but with modern Western frameworks, it sort of goes against how we value our (more…)
Newsletter #0050 – The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
This is as succinct or concise I can be with where I’ve been, and where I’m at. I think a lot of you are there too. How’s the boat? For those still silently repairing prior to making it back out to (more…)
Newsletter #0049 – It’s comforting to know that we didn’t evolve to be happy or calm.
The title this week is my own thought. If this modern complex gets you down, or overwhelms, or you fight off sadness or anxiety… remember that we evolved to self-preserve, and that didn’t mean leisurely (more…)
Newsletter #0048 – “It’s nothing… But maybe it’s the wrong kind of nothing”.
The newsletter title is from the Hulu show “The Old Man” with Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. Lying in wait, a man feels watched and nervous at the calm, and not being able to surmise the situation. (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0047 – “I could always live in my art, but never in my life.”
That’s a line from Ingmar Berman’s Autumn Sonata. It’s a heartbreaking notion of the human condition being so hard to navigate because you can reconcile complexity between yourself, but to do so with the (more…)
Newsletter #0046 – Existence is just being part of it. “And the cookie was in no position to know that”, but still VOTE PLEASE.
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” – Turkish Proverb. VOTE The (more…)
Newsletter #0045 – “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“It is likely that in every society, there are quotes by persons of vision and significance regarding the importance of caring well for our children as they hold our futures. One such quote in the USA (more…)