I know this will wind up being a very short blog post (especially for me), but then, there’s a lot going on: a move is a big thing, after all. But I’m no longer scared. I’m excited. Sure, there are a lot of uncertainties, but I’ll try to just take them as they come. And [...]
I’m scared. What I should be is asleep, but it seems my fears are getting the better of me, and perhaps what I need most right now is to express those fears, to use someone – or something – as a sounding board, to hear the echoes of my thoughts in the hopes that maybe [...]
The fire dies, The spark has gone, The embers lose their glow; The soul gives in, The mind gives up, The heart begins to slow. But Death is not The culprit, no, It’s hope that’s burned away And with its loss The self endures The same kind of decay. The light will fade, The warmth [...]
Funny thing about the Internet: it’s often a double-edged sword, at least when it comes to using it to feel “connected” to the world at large. It can bring you closer to people and allow you to feel like part of a community, or it can cut you down and make you feel like you’re [...]
A friend of mine recently e-mailed me a link to the White House’s newly updated Civil Rights page and pointed out the addition of a section on issues important to the LGBT community. I read through it, and I have to say, I’m honestly very impressed. And actually, not a little teary-eyed as well. Now, [...]
I’m in a rather contemplative mood at the moment. I suppose I’m always kind of in a contemplative mood at some level, given my perhaps overdeveloped self-awareness (and/or self-consciousness), but tonight it’s especially palpable. And for good reason: touched off by a vague feeling of dissatisfaction (whether valid or not) with my life’s accomplishments – [...]
As a quick-and-concise follow-up to my previous post on failure, a bit of wisdom from Sir Winston Churchill: “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
What is failure? The word can mean many things, but it seems to universally, across its myriad uses, have a strongly negative connotation – at least to my mind. I suppose there’s an argument to be made that a failure is just an opportunity for growth, an obstacle to be learned from and then overcome, [...]
Lately it seems I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Unfortunately, what I’ve been reading has not necessarily been what I think I should be reading. What I should be reading – like, really, really should be reading – are all those lovely research articles and books that actually relate directly to my thesis-not-quite-yet-in-progress. (I [...]
How appropriate. I spend days (weeks, months…) thinking off and on about my badly neglected blog, about how to best bring it back to life, about how to craft the “perfect” re-starter post to freshen things up and get things going again… and then as I’m here looking at my own past advice to “just [...]