Tag: Thoughts

I suspect that the ability to spit quality on the fly is partially dependent on the quantity of failures you’ve gotten out of your system.

It has been said that the schizophrenic drowns in the same madness that the mystic swims in.  To expand on that metaphor, I’d like to add that the artist will paddle out on those same waters and start fishing.

When I get stressed or cocky, something usually comes along and reminds me that right now, RIGHT NOW, I’m hurling through space on a ball of iron and mud—one among trillions in the observable universe—and that my time here is the smallest drop in an unimaginably enormous bucket.  Ironically, using logic to remind myself of…

IMHO pain is like a food:  it can sustain you, it can make you stronger, it can even taste great…but if you hoard it then it turns rancid and toxic.

From what I’ve seen, getting better at something is a function of not just starting an endeavor, but following through and attempting to achieve goals on a consistent basis (finishing an activity is a skill in and of itself IMHO).  So once I factor in my available resources and any relevant inferences, my approach is…

I realize we’re all racing to the grave, and that it’s important to stop and smell the flowers.  That being said, life sometimes grabs your hand and throws you into the most terrifying/exhilarating/awful/awesome dance imaginable, and it is EQUALLY important to be able to let go of identity in that instance, and glory in the…