According to Oprah,

today is National Coming Out Day!

That is all.

Is it odd

that the only reason I want it to be April is so I can turn my calendar to the next penguin picture?

break out of the box

I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular.  The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this.  The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost site of that. I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.


Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes.  They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box.  Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box.


Break out of the box!


-Eustace Conway

Body in a Box

June

Song of Myself

There was never any more inception than there is now, 
Nor any more youth or age than there is now, 
And will never be any more perfection than there is now, 
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. 
-Walt Whitman

A Thousand Miles

Kelsy Turner

I met Kelsy (sobriquet: Batman) on my birthday this year.  We met through our awesome mutual friend, Laurie, whom we love! :) Although we haven't known each other long, I can already tell she's going to be one of the best friends I've ever had.  We've even gotten tattoos together! Big Deal! :) 

 

She's one of the best humored people I've ever met and I love her! 

About that

Like Jordan, my mind has been on the very recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.  The images are surreal.  You can't turn on the television, open a newspaper, or get online without seeing the "widespread devastation" that is continuously taking place there.

I'll speak for myself (as everyone should only ever speak for themselves) when I say that it's also a very large example of what our world has become.  I initially said "how sad our world has become" but I quickly changed my mind and I'll explain why now.  Explaining a conundrum is obviously difficult so let me break it down:

1. I see the utter catastrophe that can take place in the world with no one to stop it.  It has happened before and it will happen again yet we are horrified and shocked every single time.  Yes, it is horrifying and shocking but it goes to show that humans don't run this world as much as we think we do.  You don't have to watch a lot of news to see that no amount of human preparation can make you ready for something like this. When things like this happen, I always find myself feeling somewhat lucky but mostly guilty.  Guilty that I'm so ungrateful.  Guilty that I continue to live my life as if nothing's happened.  Guilty that I discredit the media that feeds off of people's misery yet promote it at the same time.

Now here's where things get tricky...

2. Okay, so, I feel guilty.  What am I gonna do about it?  Text Red Cross and donate $10?  Check.  Pray about it?  No, but I'll say Check for the sake of my overall purpose.  Take a search and rescue team to a remote city in Japan? Highly doubtful.

The point I'm trying to get across is that it's easy to go on living our lives because the other options are pretty miniscule (let's be honest).  For anyone who remotely has an aware conscious when these events happen, the next step is to feel guilty.  But after that, what do you do?  There's the legitimate answer of "get the fuck up and go help them" which is a hard task, like I said, and then there's the imaginary answer of "live each day to the fullest since you don't know when it'll be your last."  That's one of many generic quotes that I cannot stand.  What the hell does that even mean?  When I hear that, I think "okay...cool...uhh yeah..?"  I'm not being negative, either.  I'm being realistic. I know most people can't make extravagant plans for each day of their lives just because there's the unknown probability that it's going to be their last.  As much as I wish we all could do that, we can't.

I don't have an answer to how I think each of us as individuals should react because everyones reactions will be different, as they should and are intended to be.  I'm sure I've left you completely confused, per usual; I just wanted to say how I felt.  Oh well, you'll have forgotten about this within a day.  If not in a day, at least by the time the next big news pops up on CNN...or your Facebook feed.  Goodnight.

degrade the true meaning of affection

we will do it

and do it gracefully

Last Chance to Lose Your Keys

I just picked a random song from my iTunes so the title isn't actually indicative of anything I'm about to talk about, sorry.

Katie and my dad went to Roswell, NM today to visit Eastern New Mexico University.  If Katie likes it, she may end up going there.  It has a program for learning disabilities.  Going there would be really awesome because it would give her a good chance to find some independence.  It would also be awesome because Roswell is Roswell and I wanna see some alien shit 8-).

Unbelievable

Weekend

8.9

positive thoughts to japan and those fearing for their daily well-being across the earth. gratitude for all of us privileged enough to worry about things like career aspirations and love instead of where the next bullet is coming from or when the next meal will be
-gw

My bookshelf

consists of my scattered, intermingling thoughts.  And of course a sun and some clouds.

It's funny what entertains us

So, about Foursquare.  It's probably unwise to add all the random people who add me from check-ins, huh?  It's the ultimate go-to for stalkers.  I'm pretty sure Bill B., Jonathan A., Kenneth C., Chris L., and Boris all know where I work and probably even live.  I didn't think it through before adding them.  Oh well, gotta take risks in life :). 


Yes, I know I could delete them. 


But I like stalking random people.

Happy World Book Day

Stolen from my cousin's Facebook...

It's World Book Day. Game Rules: grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 56. Write down the 5th sentence. Don't choose your favorite book, choose the one nearest to you right now! Post the sentence as your status and copy the rules as your comment. Happy World Book Day, March 2011!

"I believe that he didn't want to bring that dark presence directly into our house."

Fitting.

Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

Chariot

The past is beautiful

like the darkness between the fireflies.