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the frontal lobe is a ghost town two moths circling an orange sherbet street light

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Not What, But How

“The question isn’t “What happened?” but “How was it resolved?” I’ve been spending a lot of time spelunking in the past lately, trying to recover memories before they fade away. But I haven’t been reflecting on it in this way. I was looking at the “what”, and

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The Meaning of the Past

“Regardless of what may have happened in the past, it is the meaning that is attributed to it that determines the way someone’s present will be.” The past itself has no power over us. Its power arises from the meaning and interpretation applied to it. So it can always

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Empty Wishes, Part 3

I asked my buddies for some help with this: I think this is a pretty good interpretation.

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Teleology

“Every one of us is living in line with some goal. That is what teleology tells us” Teleology is the process of tracing the root of problem by looking at what function is being served by the behavior, and then figuring out the why based on that. Excerpt From: Ichiro

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Look to the present

“in Adlerian psychology, we do not think about past “causes” but rather about present “goals” Instead of trying to unravel the why of something by looking at the past and creating a narrative, we need to look to present how this behavior is serving a need or a goal. For

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It’s interesting that you go from I can’t visualize enough to draw to I don’t know how to visualize. I think I can do it if I work at it.

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I’m just writing to be writing, walking around the edges of my property putting stakes in the ground. Ground’s covered in fog, see, so it’s hard to know where the edge is. The stake indicates the ground here is safe.

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The wind is howling outside, hungry and pulling at the door.

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I really wish I could review things line by line, work them line by line until I get the things in the system to their most atomic steps. It’s all kind of a mess right now, bits and pieces all over. Things work best when you have tools that

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I feel like I want to push back on something push forward on something take a step forward any step forward

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Epictetus - Wikipedia

Epictetus (/ˌɛpɪkˈtiːtəs/;Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.