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Think of the Person
“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.” — Vietnamese proverb
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Let Me Water My Plants
But it’s all loveIt’s always love Let me water my plantsLet me water my plants
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Facts and Poetry
Thoreau always had two notebooks—one for facts, and the other for poetry. But he had a hard time keeping them apart, as he often found facts more poetic than his poems. They are, he said, translated from the language of…
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365 /// Being and Becoming
It’s the last day of the year. The last day we’ll write 2022 and mean it. The passing of time is starting to get to me. I think of all the young people happy to move on to the next…
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Hollywood
I don’t give a fuckIf everybody think I’m HollywoodIf you talking about self love, I can be thatBrown sugar, hot water, chamomile, tea bagRoad trip out to the Ventura beach houseWhen I think about it then I guess I could…
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So Complicated
“What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don’t even bother to try to understand it.” ― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
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What Thanksgiving Can Be
I’ve never been a fan of the Thanksgiving holiday, for many reasons, but mainly because as a practice of gratitude it was too little, too late, too commercialized, and too superficial. Thanksgiving, I used to think, was just a time…
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Me/Not Me
“I cannot know who I am, because I don’t know which part of me is not me.” ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Being
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326 /// Tuesday “Friday”
It’s the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and the last workday for everyone before we enjoy a break for the holiday. It’s everybody’s “Friday”…except mine. Technically, I am supposed to work tomorrow, but I have a feeling I might be the only…
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Progress is Never Permanent
“I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs… In this world there is only incremental progress… It…