a bit of a quote that always makes me feel better. i just read someone else quoting it and decided maybe it was time to put it here, and perhaps even to talk about it a bit. since pretty much everyone i know if off celebrating easter and i am feeling a bit lonely, figure this is a good time for this.
wtf with politics?
for some reason, this is in my mind lately. which is odd, because i have sworn off politics. collective disturbance? multiverse in flux? am i passing too close to another path and feeling the shift? who knows. but since it’s here… putting it here.
martyrs, briefly
the extremism of self is, i think, reflected most perfectly in the actions, mindset, and eagerness of the martyr. they have no one race, culture, or belief system. they come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. they are most easily identified by the manner in which they defame that which would be selflessness by using its appearance to commit the most selfish of acts or achieve the most selfish of ends.
burn out
sometimes, i am so ashamed of myself that it is hard to breathe. and at the same time, i’m angry with myself for asking so much OF myself. i’ve been carefully, slowly unwrapping myself over the last three years. the process has been greatly accelerated thanks to the events of 2005, 2006, and the encounter with Buddhism. i have an issue that is core. and i’m not sure how to resolve it. i’m not sure i can.
politics ick
the topic came up elsewhere and for the first time in a very long time, what i was thinking i was actually willing to say. the question was ‘why do people think it’s so bad?’ granted, vagary at its best… all the same, i think it’s common enough that the sense and meaning are implicit. so. my answer.
april 2006
written on 04-06-2006, read, re-read, agonized over, almost sent, saved, deleted from mail, returned to mail, meditated upon, removed from mail and finally placed here… a pebble in the abyss on 04-06-2007.