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““Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”” — Haruki Murakami

Good morning.

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““Silence is not freedom from sounds. Silence is not freedom from thoughts. Silence is freedom from some other moment – past or future.”” — Dorothy Hunt

Good morning.

““...it becomes vividly clear that in concrete fact I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.”” — Alan Watts

Looking back over old journal entries from years ago I see a completely different person. Recognisable but gone. How transient and ephemeral our selves are.

When I look to see where and what I am I find nothing but everything.

““The two demons are fear and desire. Now, everyone knows that demons aren’t real. That they’re imaginary. So how is it that they exist and persist? There’s no great mystery here. Fear and desire are entirely memory-based. Desire is remembered pleasure; fear is remembered pain. No memory, no problem.”” — The two demons 

Good afternoon.

Treetops

We all take our feelings very seriously but what are they?

What stories are we all telling ourselves this morning?

After a hectic weekend at work enjoying a slightly slower start this morning with coffee and a cool breeze before my late shift tonight.

Good morning.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue that didn't bring back the correct response when creating drafts via Micropub. I welcome you to give it a try with iA Writer. When posting a draft you now go to the correct page on Scribbles. Pretty nice.

As I get older, I sometimes worry about whether I can keep working the way I used to. I get tired more easily when I walk around, and I often spend my days off resting at home. I know that one day, I may not be able to achieve the same results as before. That’s why I’m starting to think about how to prepare myself before that day comes.

““I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”” — Mark Twain

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“We project our trance onto the machine and find it blinking back. This is the danger: not that machines fool us, but that we fool ourselves—and the machine reflects that deception perfectly. It mimics the self we think we are.” — Robert Saltzman, The Self That Never Was

Successfully summited the Kilimanjaro last week!

Some people who appear to be socially successful can be very cold toward those in weaker positions. They tend to believe that their own effort and ingenuity led to their success, and therefore see people struggling financially as simply lacking effort. They may be equating human rights with business thinking. They do not consider that some people cannot even reach the starting line.  There are natural differences in individual abilities, but this is no more significant than the fact that not everyone can run 100 meters in 9 seconds. Even if someone is not good at one thing, they may...

This old girl is 16 years and 3 months young. She just keeps on truckin…