Life is full of trade-offs, and we often tell ourselves that nothing is free. The “no free lunch” phrase comes from a time when bars in America would give “free” lunch to people who had purchased a drink. The food wasn’t free; they were still paying for it
There is something that resides so deep within us, not just in runners or artists, that surfaces through the actions we pursue. I’d like to consider this material to be something separate from drive or motivation, but as some internal material that we express through action. It is something
“I’m just here for moral support” might be one of my favorite ways to be anywhere. Most often, because it means I get to watch someone doing something that's in some way challenging. As much as I enjoy being the one who needs the support, whether it’
Each of us exists in the state of pursuit. Whether one is able to pursue living, over surviving, is dependent on both the context in which they’ve come to be, as well as the actions they’ve chosen. After all, life unevenly distributes fairness. So, it is then left
Using the previous perspectives I’ve written from, that humans are an expression of Earth and that what we create is an extension of ourselves, we are then equipped for a secret: life belongs to no one. Rather, it is ubiquitous throughout the animate forms of the natural. This allows
Everything is about giving. We give our time, attention, thoughts, emotions, and presence to different aspects of our lives. This calls for us to have decent boundaries in place on the amount we give, but nonetheless, life itself is a series of moments in which we must give ourselves to
3,500 words on Consumption, Space, and Humanity Understanding Human Relationships to Space and Technology I often write about time as a dimension of the human experience, but space is just as important a dimension for understanding the conditions in which we live. Space, like time, offers the dynamic polarity
Writing, thinking, and other things.
The scariest stories are not the ones of fictional worlds that intentionally blur lines with reality to provide a fright; they are the ones experienced by others that we choose to ignore because they are so horrific and unsettling that we cannot bear to give them our attention. Our present
It’s the first time it’s rained in Pittsburgh in quite a while. There are problems with that sentence, not grammatical ones, but I won’t be getting into that now. Instead, as I allowed the rain to tap my umbrella and sprinkle slightly on my face, I considered
...and more on curating your life Moths and the Artificial Recent research has disproved the previous belief that moths and other insects are attracted to light. They are instead trapped by it. According to a recent 2024 paper, Why Flying Insects Gather at Artificial Light, the authors explain that their
Your Being is a System. Background music from a distant pavilion fills the air. A man is singing Valerie. The grass is green, and all the trees surrounding the field I’m standing in provide a deep texture to the landscape. Young kids are learning soccer. Fields of flowers run
“I’ve been in line for an hour for an ice cream I’m gonna eat in like two minutes.” -the little girl in line
...more on eternity, evolving thought, and art
Circuity Part II: Direction
...and more on why need to take ownership of our time and circuity
...and more on rage-bait, attention, and individuality
How time is human currency that must be handled with care
While wildfires and misinformation spread, it's our lives on the line.
on the relationship between certitude and self