Category: thinking

  • Threefold returns

    Photo by Cornelia Munteanu on Unsplash

    All that you give returns threefold, or so they say.

    Or they used to, anyway. I do not know if that still holds true. Sometimes it does not seem to.

    The world has moved on in a lot of ways. Maybe such concepts just refuse to stick around anymore.

    I do not know.

    Laughter. That uncertain, awkward laughter one uses while scratching their head and looking down at their shoes. Are those my shoes? I suppose they must be. Heh. Alrighty. Hello shoes.

    I seem to be staring at my shoes a lot in life. Awkward laughter and all.

    Trees… They do not concern themselves with these things. Nor do big granite stones.

    And they do not have shoes to awkwardly laugh about.

    I then give myself to the wisdom of trees and stones. Perhaps I’ll grok at least some of the things yet.

  • Mean

    What compels a person to be mean just to be mean?

    I am thinking of a couple of scenarios I’ve encountered lately, but when you dial back the vision and look at things 10k feet up in the sky, there seems to be a lot of mean-spirited shit going on at this time. Why?

    someone’s interpretation of Death of the Endless; unknown copyright, found online

    I mean, people are getting off on someone else’s misery as our country goes off the rails. And it isn’t just my country where certain people are reveling in the miserly of other people… There’s evidence of it all over the place in this world, like 00s 4chan took over everyone’s sensibilities. People are obsessed with keeping score on who pwn’d who.

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  • Thoughts on rewilding — 10 apr 25

    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash

    It often feels pretentious to talk about my thoughts around my path towards rewilding. I mean, who do I think I am to turn away from the norms and follow the trail deeper into the woods?

    It is also difficult to do so because I have rejected most of the labels people use.

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  • Another Half-Penny Thought

    I sometimes wonder what prompts people to answer questions which were never asked.

    I think back to myself, “Did I ask anyone about their preferences when it comes to pie? No. I only mentioned I had a slice of apple pie with my lunch.”

    And yet, someone tells me: “I am totally not an apple pie person, I can’t understand how anyone could ever eat apple pie because apple pie is gross.”

    I scratch my head and say the only thing that seems sensible to say:

    “Cool story, bro’.”

    I sometimes have to fight the urge to flash two thumbs up.

    Is it just me? Or do you encounter these kinds of random responses when you make otherwise neutral statements?

    It’s not as if I said, “Everyone must love apple pie! Apple pie is the best pie of all pies ever made! Fight me if you think otherwise!”

  • Watch your step

    Campfire
    Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash

    Investigations of another kind…

    Which is worse?

    • Having dreams that can never come true, or
    • No longer having those dreams that can never come true

    There’s is place in this forest haunted by ghosts and regret. Myrkr and madness linger at the centre. Here be monsters. Some are framed in mirrors.

    This is the way, step inside.