Some advice from Benjamin Franklin

“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken.”

Fauxku, from my life

What is Wrong With Today
My pants won’t stay up.
My hair is a crown of fuzz.
My eggs are lonely.
Right Now
I am so fertile
I could impregnate myself
With a single sperm.
It’s Not Fun Anymore
Why table for one?
OK, I can be picky.
Still, no one’s offered.
Grumblekins
I start to wonder:
Why is everyone so awkward?
Or is it just me?
Small talk is over
And [...]

Back to work

i, most appropriately, spent the bulk of my formative years exploring myself, making revisions, corrections, edits, deletions, and redrafts until i came up with a product that i felt good about, that other people seemed to appreciate and that fell as closely in line with the values i pulled from my Faith as i could [...]

That ain’t right.

I’ve been writing a lot of email replies lately and then deleting them before I send them.  For all the witty retorts and humorously critical remarks that come to my head, I just am not finding many that are actually going to contribute anything to the well-being of the people receiving them and I just [...]

long time

Yeah, it’s been a long time. One would hope such a long sabbatical would end in some revolutionary insight, but no.  i just felt bad for taking up cyber space without using it.  Go figure.  Unfortunately (or fortunately in the big run) i doubt that i’ll be writing much for a while.  It’s not like [...]

The City of Love and Rapture

When once the seeker hath ascended unto this station, he will enter the City of Love and Rapture, whereupon the winds of love will blow and the breezes of rapture will waft.
It would seem that in my tumble through the darkness of delusion, i have finally managed to find God’s love – for me, for [...]

Bruised but not quite broken

I just got my ass kicked by idol fancy and vain imagination in the strangest reaction to a mediocre work of fiction i have ever experienced or witnessed. That’s what i get for putting moderation out on its haunches. Over the last few days i listened to a four-book series in its entirety – 2 days, 17 hours, [...]

What is pretty for?

In the context of the material world being a facsimile of the spiritual world
The worlds of God are in perfect harmony and correspondence one with another. Each world in this limitless universe is, as it were, a mirror reflecting the history and nature of all the rest. The physical universe is, likewise, in perfect correspondence [...]

Oh! You came back!

That was very generous of you.  i would’ve assumed i was dead.  Or had developed some sort of adversarial relationship with the technologies.  Not so! Since you’re here after all this time, i’ll have to assume you’re one of those people that loves me and so i will tell you some things that might interest [...]

i wrote a bit of prose before

It’s almost poetry, which makes me uncomfortable because, in my experience, poetry has to be very well crafted to be respectable and i’m not at all confident that mine is, but i likes the words and so i’m putting them down. Here.
i wonder sometimes if my prayers are getting through while my doubt is [...]