I’m skeptical of what dictates where and into what family you are born. I’ve always had a feeling that if I wasn’t born into this body that I’m in now, I’d be in another body, perhaps in Africa, or Russia. Maybe I’d be a girl, but I think one thing that wouldn’t change is my…
This is in reference to a previous post I wrote, about dictating the events of your life in the same way you are able to control what happens while lucid dreaming. I went blueberry picking with a few people on Murphy Dome. I was so certain that the area we would be picking wouldn’t require…
I think <– this is an opening many people use to begin their talks. It’s a kind of defense mechanism wherein they can always rely on the ‘everyone is entitled to their own opinion’ moral code in the event the person they are talking with is of a different stance on the subject being discussed….
Why are laundromats and showers married to each other? Commercially speaking, they are usually found together. It makes some sense: you clean your clothes you clean yourself. They ought to install a 3 compartment sink for dishes, a car wash, and provide free toothbrushes with complimentary toothpaste.
Some pesticides may have more than one purpose. To kill living things is usually the primary objective, but slowing the growth of the grass may not be far behind. Grass that grows slowly demands less frequent landscaping cutting, thereby lessening the cost of maintenance. I suppose both of these objectives of pesticides, to kill and…
During last semester’s finals week at breakfast one morning things were quiet. Most kids, myself included, studied their notebooks at the tables, in preparation for the 8 a.m. final exam. Cramming data into temporarily hungry but always nauseous minds, which will promptly puke up the information along with some boos the coming evening.
I loved the coming down stage of my first mushroom trip. I felt so exhausted that I could fall asleep forever and still not get enough rest. Melting into objects because you can’t support yourself is an extraordinary feeling.
On certain major highways you will find toll booths lined in a row and manned by state employees and/or state owned electronic systems. Each lane on the highway has its own notification of toll post sign to alert drivers of the upcoming slow down & pay requirement. There are two kinds of signs. One, red…
E. Wilson, a friend of mine, explained the unsettling feeling that each passing year is shorter than the last this way: each year that passes represents a smaller fraction of your life. At two years of age, one year = half your life. At fifty, the same number of days is reduced to a fiftyith.
I dream every time I fall asleep. It’s as if I’m always dreaming, even while awake, but I only get to experience them when I’ve passed out on the bed. Like stars in the sky, always there, only visible half the time. And then I get periodic doses of inexplicableness, like dreaming a unique and…