Today’s Words: manipulate feeble ahead oatmeal involve incidental grace Grace is this fundamental concept that was missing from my consciousness as a child. I’ve had to learn it, slowly, haltingly, with great effort. What is grace? It is that which is the nature of the Cosmos and life itself: a gift. Something freely given, but which you [...]
Today’s Words: draconian slither pillage yet fraught accolades coalesce Ah, fraught. My favorite word. Giving accolades is fraught. How to celebrate without elevating, how to honor without those betters and worses slithering in? In NVC you bring it all back to the specific, to the here and now I feel happy and gratitude. Not “you [...]
Today’s Words: laconic paper amorous lacking ineffective get on with bone Get on with it! You’ve been lurking in the amorous section of the paper for weeks, cutting out ads, piecing together phrases. If you’re worried about an ineffective presentation you might as well experiment, you’re not lacking in imagination. For fucks sake, Mom! Young [...]
Today’s Words: mullet debutante apply ruddy guest bargain muck My dad’s response to advertising was “I’ll sell you some cowpies at a bargain price.” I guess he was saying that just because it’s on sale doesn’t mean it’s not shit. I’m sure there are some life lessons to be drawn from this but just now [...]
Today’s Words: probation officer plump oneself dim domicile opiate Post-purchase rationalization groom Jim hated being a probation officer. If he had ever imagined a career for himself as a child, he was sure it wasn’t this. Perhaps he had wanted to be a travelling carnival hand, or a backup musician for Sting. Perhaps he had [...]
Today’s Words: rose-light extremities prophetess palaver elemental perfect game disambiguate So I’m reading people’s GTD systems and I’m struck by this realization: these are people who work 8 hours a day. If I maintained a GTD list, I would be spending half of my work time updating it. I just don’t work that much. I [...]
Today’s Words: homophile Patsy Cline insectivorous pug spiteful nick sprinkle I’ve been watching Sliders, which is this old TV show from, oh, the nineties maybe, where these folks get stuck sliding from parallel universe to parallel universe trying to find their way home. And each parallel Earth is similar-but-different. They meet their doubles and doppelganger [...]
Today’s Words: dog tag gravitas replete trafalgar peregrinate sequel hooflike No gravitas here, I am a Joy Ninja! Yup, I got a new blog. Think of it as a sequel to Tao of Prosperity. When you’ve got your money situation managed, what do you want to do? Change the world! I will peregrinate through the various [...]
Today’s Words: abyss idiot indentured swaddling clothes natty gusto puerile I feel like starry-eyed like the purveyer of a new revolution. It’s Web 2.0, man! It’s open source culture! Dig it! I’m writing notes everywhere, trying to figure out my thoughts. I’m reading articles about the rise of Barak Obama and Web 2.0 sensibilities. I’m [...]
Today’s Words: confess dreary maker sketchy gutter press bystander swagger I am much taken lately with Twitter. Every day I get much pleasure out of spitting little blurts about my daily goings-on. It’s like having a portable confessional. Meanwhile I also get to follow my friends blurts. Many of which are comments on other frineds, who I then [...]