Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here's this month's installment. Small talk is the tax that God extracted for the privilege of human speech.It is a different skill to communicate an idea than to understand it.If someone says there was too much, then something about it was unappealing.Why not? is a terrible … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-05

Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here's this month's installment. Social media turns life into episodes.When money exchanges hands,  something is being bought.Constraints liberate, liberties constrain. —Runar BjarnsonSoftware is eating the world.Never forget that society can go balls-up at any moment.Pleasures deferred can be pleasures foregone."A compromise is an agreement between two … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-04

Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here's this month's installment. You can’t be what you can’t imagine, and imagination is often limited by our sight, or vision.He who cannot howl will not find his pack.—Charles SimicMost deliberate misinformation from authorities—especially in places that are mid-range in terms of institutional trust and strict … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-03

Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here's this month's installment. Art allows us to see through the eyes of others.If you can't be X all day, try being X for the next second, minute or hour.Understanding and believing are not the same thing.—Gertrude SteinFailure will never stand in the way of success … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-02

Collecting these little sayings has turned into a major focus of mine. I'm going to aim for a year of monthly posts of them. It’s always new and astonishing when it’s yours.The center defines something differently than the periphery."Act with zest one day at a time, and never mind the rest." –Ode 11 of Book I … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-01