This was one of those late night discoveries when I couldn’t sleep and turned to PBS in the hopes of finding something interesting to watch that didn’t feel like a total waste of my time. I do waste some time … Continue reading
Category Archives: creativity
I plod. I don’t think I’m a runner yet. This guy was a runner. I was thinking about being single-minded and how focus and natural ability and mental toughness can lead you to greatness. Then I started thinking about something … Continue reading
I was running this morning and thinking. I can’t disconnect the two activities completely. If I’m breathing I’m thinking. That doesn’t mean that if I’m running and I’m breathing hard that I’m thinking more than usual. It doesn’t mean that … Continue reading
We went up to Asheville last night to pick our daughter up at school. This was the middle of one of her PE classes…something about “rhythmic aerobics”. Kidding…this is the drum circle that goes on in Asheville every Friday night … Continue reading
When someone goes missing in the woods, they send out a search party. They don’t let another evening pass when they discover that a person isn’t where they need to be. But what if a person’s “never left the building” … Continue reading
I watched this the other day on one of the “weird channels” that we get on Dish Network . We have a really limited channel selection because I found a super cheap package that I think they sometimes offer hoping … Continue reading
I used to get this catalog “back in the day” that came from a company called Johnson Smith. It was a company that specialized at the time in the weird and the novel items that were all pretty darn appealing … Continue reading
I was thinking about words again this morning. Yesterday, I closed my post with the word “immolation”. This morning, I woke up thinking about “emulation”. I also thought about “emollient”. That’s a pretty amazing thing to me….so many different words, … Continue reading
This kind of stuff used to look appealing. I used to think that communal living would be pretty great. I was born in 1960…so even if I was just a kid, somehow I identified with all the hippies and that … Continue reading
This is a video about a guy named Heimo Korth who lives a backwoods life up in Alaska. I’d read a book about him a while back called “The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Artic … Continue reading