When I drift into the empty space of my childhood I am reminded how rigid my memories are from that period of my life, as they are so few. A place where my behavior was more sedentary then the chaos that ensued during my more troubled years when I was hyperactive and impulsive. This shows … Continue reading A Spectacle of Ideas
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The Game of Synchronicity
I have been wanting to write but unable to get out of the game. This game has no winners, so losers never quit and winners never play. The game is called sanity - mental order that takes very long to get started and a short time to end, not to be shared or borrowed but … Continue reading The Game of Synchronicity
Guilty of Suggestion
I sometimes feel backlash from people out in public because I have difficulty joining a society that is changing so fast it is nearly impossible to conclude it is good change we are experiencing. Sure the technology is great, having a robot in your pocket, but the information is so vast I normally don’t commit … Continue reading Guilty of Suggestion
The Philosophy of Why
“Memory is sometimes understanding the when, where, who, and what but never the why.” -FEM To understand these questions you need to pick an object, place, or person in time and give them a characteristic and name. Put another way, if you were given any topic in history to discuss, you would have to … Continue reading The Philosophy of Why
Motivation
“If I had to count the times I didn’t do what I set out to do I wouldn’t count myself out.” -FEM Motivating yourself to continue being stubborn towards setting goals is like training all day to get ready for bed. Training means you have an expectation of where you’d like to be in … Continue reading Motivation
The Oligarchy of Art
“I practice self awareness when people react to me.” -FEM It’s good to have an audience but it’s best to personify those things that attract attention before revealing to the curious your line of creativity. What better way to know your own material than becoming the maker of the mold not the material. With … Continue reading The Oligarchy of Art
Silent Book
“No book has ever been written that explains the way I think.” -FEM How many of you have read a book by Socrates and have been so enamored by it that you read it over and over again, took many notes and spoke long winded about it to your friends? Of course you haven’t, … Continue reading Silent Book
Exert Knowledge
“The more people you meet the more wisdom you exert and less knowledge you establish.” -FEM I’m not one of these people that go around meeting everybody in the same field nor do I have others coming up to me wanting to shake hands with a guy known for his accomplishments and astute rise … Continue reading Exert Knowledge
Spontenaity
“The greatest good that comes from thinking about the past is thinking about it now.” - FEM It’s hard to say that the only time we have is now because there is a timeline of thousands of events preceding this moment that are also owned by us. I think it is healthier to live … Continue reading Spontenaity
Inertia
“Inertia makes for a decent decade but a wasted lifetime.” - FEM It seems to me if one second was equivalent to one snowflake then rolling around a snowball to make the head of a snowman could contain up to ten years - while the rest of him, packed tightly, could hold a lifetime … Continue reading Inertia
Athens – Introducing Hypnagogic’s
Did you know that morning glory grows out from the cracks of sidewalks and buildings in Athens? I only know this because a Brit strolled up to me asking me a slew of questions about where I’ve been, then determined I am from Michigan, and showed me how to seek and process and consume the … Continue reading Athens – Introducing Hypnagogic’s
Chicago I – The Color of Boredom
Chicago is the city where I was just a seed in a wheat field being swayed by wind, swirling within golden waves of a million clusters which would one day be milled into bread. Why not? Bread and wine filled me up quite a bit on my travels. After my backpacking trip to Europe, which … Continue reading Chicago I – The Color of Boredom
Francis Erich McElroy 