Category: thinking

  • Half-penny thoughts — 06nov25

    Why is it that some of us are not allowed to be “not okay” in some manner or another? Why is it that we always seem to be the ones who have to be available?

    And when we happen to be less than rosey, why do so many people act like it is less important than their own trials and tribulations?

    Yeah. I know. There is no real answer to that question. Therefore, comments are closed. Food for thought is all, as meager a fare as that might be…

  • Half-penny thoughts — 04nov25

    Except for romance novels (where it is, after all, the focus and intent), I feel sex scenes in fiction almost never add to the story and almost always pulls you out of the story as a reader.

    Or, maybe it is just me.

    It could very well be me.

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  • Half-penny Thoughts — 30oct25

    A couple of thinks on the cheap have occurred to me over the past few days.

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  • Half-penny thoughts — 28oct25

    selective focus beige and brown goat
    Photo by Sơn Bờm on Pexels.com

    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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