Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Friday, October 21, 2016
shoot the works
Labels:
death,
earth,
experience,
extinction,
future,
genius,
human condition,
logic,
responsibility
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Monday, August 29, 2016
Frida Pushnik
In a 1966 interview, Miss Pushnik told The Orange
County Register that she had never resented her condition. ''I never
said, 'Why me?' That would be a wasted emotion. You can ruin your life
like that,'' she said.
From the beginning, her mother insisted she do as
much as possible for herself. By holding things between one small stump
of an arm and her chin, she could feed herself, sew and crochet. Her
brother remembers her going sledding, and laughing uproariously when she
fell off. She also received an award for penmanship.
In 1933, Robert L. Ripley, creator of ''Ripley's
Believe It or Not!,'' heard of her and visited. He put a cartoon of her
in his nationally syndicated feature, calling her ''little half girl''
and misspelling her name as Freda. He then asked her to appear at the
World's Fair in Chicago in 1933. Freaks Trailer
Labels:
audacity,
experience,
history,
human condition,
imagination
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Friday, July 22, 2016
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The Razor's Edge
"Rise, wake up, seek the wise and realize.
The path is difficult to cross
like the sharpened edge of the razor,
so say the wise."
(verse 1.3.14 from the Katha Upanishads)
Labels:
altruism,
deviant,
experience,
human,
perception,
perspective,
philosophy,
truth
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Climbing Mount Signal
When I was 18 years old, me and two of my buddies decided that we were going to climb Mt. Signal. Even though it's only 2,300 feet to the top of Mt. Signal it looked like Mt. Everest to us. Being the young bucks that we were, we thought it the thing to do to prove our manhood. Temperatures in the Imperial Valley hit 90 to 110 during the day so we started early in the morning, figuring to make the summit by noon and get back down before nightfall. We started up one foot in front of the other, boulder by boulder, it was a good climb and we gained a hundred feet of altitude every ten minutes. Half way up we looked around and thought, maybe we've bit off more than we can chew, but we kept on climbing. We made the summit right around noon and took in the view. 2,300 feet in the air it was if we were in an airplane flying over the perfectly flat fields of the Imperial Valley, we were in awe of what we had accomplished. Standing before the shrine with it's cross at the summit we knew we were somebody, we knew that we mattered. I picked up a couple of rocks and put them in my pocket, then we started the climb down. It was like floating on air, we bounded from boulder to boulder gravity assisted and flew down the mountain. Without seeming effort we glided as if on wings toward the base, in a trance like state time slowed down, as if in slow motion every stone was alive and a step back to reality. We arrived in the real world and realized that we were men and began our journey, we had arrived ! (read more)
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