November 16th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Administrator
Friday night I was sitting in a fast food joint waiting on my order. The people in front of me had placed a $48 order to go. James Taylor’s Fire and Rain started playing over the speakers and for a moment I was able to look at the situation sort of abstractly and I realized that the music had caused a shift in my consciousness and the weekly Friday night stress was gone. I could also see that the duration of this tiny little bit of quiet time was just that…brief but I didn’t care about that. It was just the fact that the weight was gone for a sec and I was aware of it. It’s kinda like the times I’ve expressed to people that I take photos to relax. When I’ve got things I’m forced to deal with and I’m able to halt them for a little while and do things that I really enjoy, it makes having to go back to those things not as depressing. Being able to get away from it all for five minutes is better than doing calisthenics next to your desk for the same amount of time.
November 15th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Administrator
I have added spirulina to this little personal apothecary of mine. So far I am taking twice daily: Biotin, Red Yeast Rice, Spirulina, Turmeric Curcumin, Zylene, Vitamin C, Saw Palmetto, Cinnamon, Lysine and Chromium Picolinate. I plan to add to all that Resveratrol, Omega-3 and B-Complex. That’s in addition to my prescription meds. I am starting to wonder if I need to spread it out more.
November 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Administrator
I have my truck loan paid down to $483. I am working to have it paid off by the first week of December if not sooner. I really need to get this account paid so I can have the mortgage as my only credit account left. I need to be patient here and pay on it every week even though I am tempted to try and knock it out in two more paychecks (by November 26). I worked an extra shift this week so I am hoping to make the regular payment of $361 next Wednesday and have only $122 left.
November 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Administrator
There are many things that we hold as core beliefs that we seldom question. In fact when some things are questioned, there is such an uproar that the one doing the questioning feels intimidation for doing so. While I have not always acted on it, I’ve always believed it is necessary to see for myself rather than simply following what I’ve been told. I may come to the same conclusion from doing my own research as the thing that is considered common knowledge but I don’t consider that a waste of time. Am I going to be able at 45 to do an in-depth study of every topic I was exposed to before decided to question everything I believe? I don’t know. Probably not. I should have begun this process when I was a senior at UT and learned that President Lincoln’s motives for freeing the slaves were not in their best interests. Since I can’t make up for 22 years I have to dig into everything I can and whatever I don’t get to before my time here is done won’t have been looked at. Hopefully this list will be shorter rather than longer. So you may read something here that pisses you off or seems outrageous. This post and others will hopefully give you some insight as to why I am taking one position or another or why I may seem antipathetic about something I should be intensely passionate about. I may not have reached what I consider the final conclusion about a topic. Feel free to question me about anything I say here. I don’t have all the answers and never will, but neither does anyone else and that includes the people who serve as our teachers.
November 12th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Administrator
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has tapped former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a former Republican congressman to meet foreign delegations at the global financial summit in Washington this weekend.
This is not good. Albright was the one who when told of the numbers of Iraqi kids who had died in the 1990s due to “sanctions” and asked whether the price was worth it said yes. I had hoped that he wouldn’t do too much recycling of cabinet members. Yes he’s asking her to attend a conference but is this a prelude to a cabinet post?
Transformations is about becoming. It is a chronicle of my labyrinthine journey following and sorting through a constant inundation of information. The present way of looking at and doing things isn't working. It's time to crawl inside a photon and learn to describe things as light reflects off of them. Knowledge. It's the ultimate themepark ride.
What? Not connected to me? We should work on that.
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