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Scrambled cities: If you're not gonna do the work(on your soul), then you might as well work til you die

 There are two tiers in normal life. Those who are survive and those who thrive.  But nothing is a mistake in life: Nothing comes by chance. You have to prepare for it.  If you thought life was about making money and beating out the Jones's, you've lost already.  Life is: Desire for connection. All unhealthy competition is isolating. We live in an isolated-enough world already. This connection comes from a surprising place: Self-acceptance. A lot of us need to go back to the classroom. A lot of us need to take a silent breather and check in with what we need. This takes serious work. It's the real work. It relies on respect for others and self-respect.  A lot of people in the self-help community try to push the self aside: Manning up is the only side of it they see. But there are certain non-negotiables in this life. Certain things we can't cheat ourselves out of. We are not a piece of meat being acted on.    However, this is where God comes in. Some o...
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Butchering Neverland

 Were there ever a time or place that would stand the test of time through broad and narrow, Kit's party was it. For it was decked out with every imaginable school quad treat. The grandfather sat in the TV room sloughing down his treats with coffee and liberal doses of water, while I was making a fool of myself bumbling about the halls like some nudist who - from the outside at least- might look like he'd achieved nirvana.

The party was all but at an end, and there was I, attempting to reheat the gargantuan coffeemaker so that I could have one last "Hurrah" to a quarterlife well spent on philosophizing and generally housesitting for people of this kind. Kit's mother, a doting but perennially unfazed woman in her early 40's was negotiating (with herself so as not to intrude on all the festial engagements of others) what to add to an already enormous spread. As I said, the evening was drawing to a close, and everyone was about to leave, but she was still deciding on what to add. 




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