Quotes

Earth Bleeding Into the Sea

“Today, no matter what the source of its energy, whether from the sun, from minerals, or from digesting other living creatures, every single living thing on Earth converts that energy, first and foremost, into a pyrophosphate compound, ATP, the so-called ‘universal energy currency of life’. Across all living things, that conversion only happens when a gradient of hydrogen ions is set up and allowed to flow through our own slightly leaky membranes. To perform any action, from firing nerves to secreting saliva, from contracting a muscle to DNA replication, every cell within every body must first replicate some of the chemistry of the earth bleeding into the sea.”

Excerpt From: Halliday, Thomas. “Otherlands.” Random House Publishing Group, 2022-02-01. Apple Books.

We Noticed

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already. –Robert Anton Wilson

Should Be My Family’s Motto

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. –William James

Outward Writing Thinking

I’m apparently writing. I ate some food late, and while I was cooking, I was pacing. I was thinking, I was writing. I seem to burning a little brightly right now; that may explain the frustration. I guess. I’m not sure about that, but maybe the burning somehow

Blogapocalypse

It was a long bad day. I was going to write today. It had such promise at the start. Ideas were just bubbling through, and for some reason the wind has shifted. I write all the time, but it’s for me, for my journal. I have to fight to

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We Noticed

Should Be My Family’s Motto

Outward Writing Thinking

Blogapocalypse