Category: Main Blog
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#64 Brain Soaking
You are what you eat, right? Is that accurate, accurate?You are what your brain eats, maybe. But not what you eat. On second thoughts, pretty sure you are what your brain eats. The brain is a fascinating playground. It soaks up, frames, and guides our entire lives. The decisions it makes dictate how we feel,…
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#63 Half-assin’ a Whole-ass Life
Pretttttyy sure we’re half assin’ this thing… half assin’ a lot… like a-lot-a-lot. We’re half assin’ a whole ass life. Adequate. Alright. Mediocre. Subpar. Subsist. Gettin’ by. Just making it. We’re survivin’. And it’s bullshit. We wade through these waters of life, ambivalent and aimless. We just sort of meander through this thing. Half-alive. Dead…
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#62 The Pursuit Of
4 Min Read It seems more and more that the pursuit of is where the fulfillment comes from. I don’t even know if it’s the fulfillment, life comes from the pursuit of. A few things sparked this particular lull I have been in. For one, the past week has been wrangling my lungs as I…
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#61 A Perfect Day
*see the list, skip the story* A few years back I had taken a trip to Estonia. Right after college graduation I was on the Euro-travel grind. I packed up my 40L Backpack and scooped up my one way ticket to Ireland. I met with some friends and had a kickass time in that beautiful…
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#60 A Discombobulated Harmony – The Philippines
You’d think it’d be a shit show. You’d think people would be crashing in to each other and getting in to accidents. From the outside looking in it looks like mayhem. But on the inside it has a rhythmic sort of feel to it. Once you’ve adapted, you adapt to the madness and it turns…
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#59 – Fight or Flight: Redbull Doesn’t Sponsor You for Flying
There are thoughts cruising around. Constantly. It’s one thing after another. The mind doesn’t take vacations. It doesn’t take any breaks. They say we have an estimated 6000 thoughts per day. Who? Good question. All I know is that is a lot of thoughts. They don’t really stop, do they? These pesky thoughts just keep…
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#58 Something Greater
July 4, 2024 – Thurs Okinawa Read Time: 7 mins Pretty sure we’re supposed to contribute to something greater. Ok, maybe not supposed too. I hate that word anyways. It’s so hand wavy. For what? For why? For whom? Supposed to? Says who? Did you just make that up? You say I’m supposed to? ‘Supposed…
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Week 84 Wanderings (7-2-2024) – Taking life less serious, Negotiations, On giving advice, Using mistakes for connection
Laughing with (at) people ‘You can’t build a relationship solely on laughter, but it’s impossible to build one without it’Source: Unknown Idk where I found this, but holy smokes it’s good. Seems like the fun is a bit sucked out of us as we age and people expect you to be more ‘professional’. That doesn’t…
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#57 when is success?
What really is success? Is it the $150k/year? Is it the white picket fence? Is it that home? Maybe. I’ll suggest it’s something entirely different: Making ourselves happy each and every day. Both internal and external success exist. They’re both entirely real and make us feel a certain way – but they don’t feel the…