Useless

Photo by Andrea Sun on Unsplash

I re-opened a blog site from ancient history (2007-2008) and made it public again because one of my new readers requested access to what had been marked a private blog (or maybe not, but it is back “live” regardless).

It is just a catalog of quotes and poetry that caught my fancy, namely of a Taoism or Zen Buddhism bent. There’s nothing terribly exciting there unless you are into those kinds of things, or if you want a peek into where my mind was about a year before I ended up choosing sobriety as a more enlightened path than wonton drunkenness.

Check it out, if you are so inclined: Useless Tree

I originally made the site private primarily to stop a reader from demanding new posts when I had decided I was no longer in the mood to be enlightened. And then I never got back to posting on it or making the site public again when that mood passed away.


4 responses to “Useless”

  1. Bob Avatar

    This is a treasure trove of quotes. And even one by Lewis Carroll. I’ve just started going through these. And will go through them some more. Thanks for sharing.

    1. michael raven Avatar

      Heh. Enjoy it.

      I was off on a tangent back then, sometimes alcohol-fueled, sometimes just trying to wrap my head around complex philosophical ideas. Sometimes, I was just (badly) practicing Zen.

      If someone gets something positive out of it, that would the best that I could hope for.

  2. tara caribou Avatar

    I enjoyed the quotes I read. I think I looked through about twenty of them, or so. Nice collection!

    1. michael raven Avatar

      Thanks! It was a thing at the time. I’m not sure why 😅