“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I like quotes. Especially by those folks who have last names that I can’t even fathom trying to pronounce.
While sober even.
In terms of personal tranquility: I’m working on that.
Had a session with my Coach yesterday […]
PERSPECTIVE.
The shadow or object mirrored in water in motion, that is to say in
small wavelets, will always be larger than the external object
producing it. - Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
In other discussions this evenings:
Conflicts are easier mitigated and resolved when you consider this:
90% of the world has the same value set as you.
It is […]
Realization:
I’ve lived my life … less in fear of personal failure, and more in fear of disapointing those whom I love and respect.
I am lacking in this type of courage and confidence.
This is… a weakness on my part, to give credit and respect back to those who have invested their affection, confidence and […]
Meeting with my Coach today occasionally breaks my head.
I’m not used to having so many epiphanies and tough realizations. Especially when coupled with tools and ideas to adjust or improve certain behaviors and situations. It’s weird.
An analogy that came up — that felt… oddly just right.
Maybe, it makes sense if I consider myself […]
Shadow is diminution of light.
Darkness is absence of light.
Shadow is divided into two kinds, of which the first is called
primary shadow, the second is derived shadow. The primary shadow is
always the basis of the derived shadow.
The edges of the derived shadow are straight lines.
- P 159 of the Notebooks of Leonardo Da […]
* Little things remind you of home, like: home cooked Korean food, sitting in the basement of a Korean church, the awkward and unapologetic stares from older Korean folks, and well… hearing Korean. (My personal observations from being at a Korean Drycleaners association meeting tonight)
* I love full moons. Especially when they look […]
Funny.
Listening to Buenos Tardes Amigos by Ween does *not* actually help you translate mail pieces for marketing campaigns.
Consider me painfully disappointed.
Now, I concede that I haven’t written a real post in a while. I’ve been a little gunshy.
Bad dreams again of late, I’m afraid. I hate it.
I’ve been taking excerpts from other folks, posting PSAs, and jotting little links that hopefully provide you, dear reader, with some of the insights and […]
Is it wrong to desperately want to feel private?
…after living so much of my life online over the past several years, exposing truths and utter frailities, dorkitude, frustrating episodes, moments of whimsy, and disclosures and confessions?
I’ve been feeling vulnerable lately. Not from you, or you, or you lurker. Perhaps it’s you.
Yes. That’s […]
I’m silly, yes this is true.
But a logical person by nature.
And I recognize that these assertions are completely debateable.
Today has been…extraordinary.
#1. Work stuff actually feeling reasonably stress free and manageable
#2. Getting to leave work at a reasonable hour
#3. The most careful and loving note about faith I’ve received in a while. (LK, I’m vain. I […]
Something on my mind the last few months that may seem out of character for me based on most of my snarky,cussing,name-in-vain,lefty,shmacktalking bent is…
Well…
I’ve started praying again.
And it feels really really good.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Page 25
OF THE EYE.
Focus of sight.
If the eye is required to look at an object placed too near to it,
it cannot judge of it well–as happens to a man who tries to see the
tip of his nose. Hence, as a general rule, Nature teaches us that […]
Glass is transparent because it is essentially an extraordinarily slow moving liquid.
Funny how you can make liquid shatter and cut yourself on the palm with it, isn’t it?
That’s like saying your coffee is prone to outbursts of violence and could likely strangle you when you’re not looking.
Also, as discussed with Molly yesterday, I’m not a […]
Karma’s a bitch.
Some things you want, and you can’t have.
Some things seem ersatz what you want, and you run away.
****
It makes me feel like I deserve my own poor moods.
The only way I’ve slept anywhere nears well the last few weeks has been a) out of pure exhaustion, b) under medication, c) under use of […]
Story Problem
Do not ask me to do math.
It is temptation to revoke my license as an Asian American.
I am incapable of measuring volume related to fridge space for my leftovers
Or calculating tip and dividing dinner by the company minus one for the honored guest.
And story problems, in this day and age, terrify me.
This is math. […]
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