True play is a time to experiment with new things; a time when you have the most chance to find something exciting.
I have a rough album of songs that I think are really, really good. They’re making me dance. One thing at a time though.
Evil appropriates the language of divinity to destroy lives. Hard Rock appropriates shadow and transcends the world.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
I’m happy when I have interesting work because “work” then feels like play.
Players play characters in plays; musicians play music while playing to audiences. Writers work, however; and artists work at producing artworks. Work and play can be a fine balance.
Random Thoughts:
Words can make grunts of great cruelty or music of great beauty.
I watched the change from shy smiles to deep desires, until anger looked back.
The shopping aisles of perfect smiles draining the days in joyless fantasy.
Do you remember me? I don’t think you do because you never saw me. You saw another copy of a copy, a projection of your story. Now I am many stories, but only one is real.
I spy with my little eye
Something beginning with a lie:
Thick bliss with a twist,
Jealously deceiving,
Judging and sneering;
Another sadistic statistic
bleeding fear on the journey
from womb to tomb,
dreaming of decay.
Currently playing a track on repeat with my wooh-ooh vocals on top. It’s really good, it’s sexy and I want to dance with it, but I did say one thing at a time…
Random Thoughts:
Words are more real when they form from actions. The interesting parts of a scene are usually what happens around the words.
Beliefs are the biggest killers of people. Awareness to recognise beliefs as thoughts, and to change them when necessary, is vital to the world’s well-being.
Pride repeats errors. Love for your life and others is not pride.
I read my words and find myself bursting out in laughter. I’m not sure if it’s because of quality or embarrassment.
Bring life to the page and the page to life.
The best way to spot typos and other errors is to read the words out loud. It slows you down and makes you articulate what has been written, rather than reading in your head what you thought you had written.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that humanity will progress or fail based on the quality of information. Totalitarian regimes are the biggest abusers of the truth and the vilest perverters of humanity.
Wiberty – words in books can set you free.
“Smart” as a buzzword has become a bit corporate, so is far from its original meaning of savvy. I now prefer “hardcore”, but with nice comfy edges.
The train from Norwich to London journeys through four of England’s fifty-five cities.
I finally broke the two-minute mark for passing free-flowing water. Very proud of myself.
During my wanderings, I’ve built abilities in various areas. I’m now focusing on each area in turn, starting with writing.
Random Thoughts:
From brain teasers to magic tricks, it’s usually a wrong assumption that hides the answer. Beliefs are full of assumptions, conscious and unconscious.
If you think you understand, you don’t. To think something is final, rather than part of a dynamic process, is to not begin to comprehend boundless possibilities.
I would like there to be a platform that is text-based and has character minimum limits for posts, so that content is substantial.
Those who supported habitual shams look ridiculous in the fullness of time.
Mid-May and it is now the first day of the year when heating isn’t needed and my study door is open. The trees are in leaf, there is a freshness of cut grass in the air, and there are still spring flowers on green waysides. It’s this time of the year when I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world.
Random Thoughts:
I write something that seems fine at the time. I read it later, groan, and make edits.
Reading to thinking to writing to speaking to writing to thinking to reading.
Cynical and low-quality public discourse in democratic countries has given succour to the autocrats of the world.
The reason that many observers thought Putin was just posturing with 200,000 troops on the Ukrainian border was they didn’t think he would be so stupid as to invade a country of 44 million people. By comparison, 2 million Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland in 1939. The soviets invaded Finland in 1939 with 750,000 troops and lost, suffering horrific casualties.
If a government (e.g. the US) had conclusive proof that aliens were visiting Earth, the information is unlikely to be disseminated for fear of panic and societal collapse. It would be suppressed, with the option to gradually acclimatise the public to that reality.
Any course of learning should be immediately available in a phone app, including school curriculum and university degree programmes.
I need to know. About everything.
I would like a feed of paragraphs from books. Drilling in expands to the chapter. It could have articles and blogs as well, but I’m mainly interested in dipping into books from groups I follow.
All people should have access to the sum total of human knowledge. Untwisted from deceivers, vested interests, and echo chambers.
Rob Walker 