Category: thinking

  • Half-penny thoughts — 28oct25

    selective focus beige and brown goat
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    Isn’t it time to retire the concept of the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time)?

    I mean, how does one even begin to objectively quantify that in order to support such a statement?

    The biggest issue is that whenever someone says such a thing, is that it is always presented as fact when it is absolutely pure opinion. You can’t quantify such things and it is usually a tactic to bully someone into thinking as you do.

    “Be one of us now….”

    The acronym even rubs me wrong. Goats everywhere are offended by it. “Appropriation!”

  • Cosmology

    I won’t go too deep down the rabbit hole here, but I’ve made it no secret that I have an interest in what I call “The Old Ways”. While no one knows for certain what practices existed in the neolithic, preagricultural period of history, I think there are some things that appear to be universal when observing or investigating nomadic peoples closer to the modern age and we can draw some conclusions based on that in conjunction with what we can tease out about a few thousand years back.

    The records of what was written contemporaneously or kept alive through oral tradition, however biased those records might be, sometimes point to a past that existed before those events were recorded.

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  • getting out

    Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash

    I’ve decided that I need to get out into the real world and step away from my man cave in the basement more often. Although I am not much of a people-person, I have been feeling the need for face-to-face human interaction from people other than family members.

    Essentially, I’m looking to take a break from extreme isolation that has been the hallmark of my existence since I elected to sober up. Over the past 16 years, I’ve largely forgotten how to socialize, which is starting to wear a bit on my psyche.

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  • wisps

    Photo by Krzysztof Płocha on Unsplash

    Which cuts deeper: midwinter’s rime or a big empty?

  • wisps

    Photo by Goran Vučićević on Unsplash

    How can one miss something they have never known?

  • wisps

    One should ask oneself: Why so angry?

  • digging in the middens

    I am having a bit of a dry spell when it comes to creative writing, which is neither unusual or much of a bother.

    When the desert decides to take up residence in my head, I sometimes power through and other times I find “less creative” ways to keep writing (like this post). I don’t let it bother me when the ideas go fooom and I am left with a cranium filled mostly with fluff. But I do keep writing when that happens because I invariably discover something I want to write about as I am “just writing”.

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  • Half-penny thoughts — 29sep25

    I made it to my fourth crochet row on a non-project (no goal other than getting more comfortable with crochet) before everything got really ugly and went terribly wrong. That’s progress beyond just beyond getting a foundation row more than five loops long. I won’t be crocheting any afghans soon, but it is progress.

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  • September reads and doings

    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash

    I’ve been devoting more time to reading books and attempting new hobbies in my effort to reduce the amount of content I consume from the internet.

    Since the beginning of September, I have read six novels and abandoned one novel after a record 30 pages (I couldn’t take the convenient miracles any longer, they were that obvious and that poorly written). The month has a few days yet and I am working on two more books. There is always a chance I’ll make it through my seventh, but I wouldn’t count on it.

    If you are curious as to what I’ve been reading, check out this “living” page that gets updated as I consume, including planned and current reads.

    Six books is not huge, but it is a positive effort away from social media and news that, let’s just say, feels like a low-quality circus right about now.

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  • Salinger quote

    “Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

    — Franny in Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger