Category: Philosophy
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The Secret of Success: Having Fun
I’m having a blast. It’s really fun. I don’t know why… But it’s just been a joy. Conan O’Brien Jan. 12, 2020, “Nikki Glaser” 1:12 Why were you trying to find my extension?I have a friend who’s opening up a new restaurant in Soho and I was hoping you’d go with me.What?Do you want to…
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Attempting an Explication of the Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is…
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Changing My Mind About Publishing in Today’s Media Landscape
I pulled into Kroger’s tonight, and what I felt was a good poetic line seemed to flash into me —like so many do that don’t necessarily have a direct meaning consciously, but feel like they came from another place and I am just the receiver and feel like they are pointing towards something that is…
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A Generation X Woodstock View
As a teen I romanticized it. Now, I realize that’s the same as mythologizing something. Of course the reality of the experience was anything but. Unless you were having a good trip, as it were. As a young teen in the early eighties, maybe from my older sister’s record collection, I was into CSNY, Dylan,…
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Inspiring Quotes for the Creative
“Don’t be afraid to be obsessed.” Annie Leibovitz – from a Masterclass.com commercial just now (19:32hrs CST July 11th, 2019). “You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.” Margaret Atwood — from the very same Masterclass commercial as mentioned above. “I look for a tone. I look for that spark. Oooooooo! That’s…
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How to Find Your Calling and Follow Your Bliss
“It has to be something you can’t not do.” — Jerry Seinfeld. “In Tonio Kröger, the young artist moved out of the world of what had to be done. In the Magic Mountain, Hans Castorp stepped away from the world of what had to be done and followed the fascination of his nature. That is…
