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I forgot how beautiful the desert is. I haven't been to my Terlingua property in 5 years. Now I'm tempted to stay and establish another homestead on my 40 acres of desert wilderness. I wont really do it of course. I'm always tempted to move to every place I visit.  |
I guess I don't think about anything different in the spring time than any other time of the year. Primarily because I don't know what to call spring time. For example: This winter I was in Alaska, looking forward to spring, salivating over the freshness of the spring to come, when my spring would unfreeze so I could get water without melting snow. Then I flew to North Carolina and spring was well under way. I was sweating and much too warm. In June I'll be flying back to Alaska and spring will be well under way there.  So I just think, whenever my brain is working, any old time of day and any old time of year. Hmmmm, I wonder what time it is?In Chaucer's time The written and spoken words were much different. For all I know ears may have worked differently too. All I know for sure is that I wouldn't be able to read what Chaucer wrote or understand what he said. All of today's written and spoken language would be unintelligible to anyone from Chaucer's time, unless they were originally a time traveler. Culture and language evolve much more rapidly than biology. In the morning I'll be getting on a plane and flying to El Paso. Renting a car and driving to Las Cruces. Visiting Carlsbad Caverns NP and Guadalupe NP. Then driving down to Terlingua. Hiking and inspecting my 40 acres of desert property and hoping the flowers will be in bloom. I will have internet connection here and there, but certainly not everywhere, So I might not be around much for the next week. |
| I object to the word 'genre'. If I was forced to pick a favorite genre I would say, 'Literary Fiction', which, in my opinion, isn't a genre at all. I prefer books which you all might say are made up of more than one genre. Some prime examples are many of David Mitchell's works, in particular 'Cloud Atlas'. I also love what is called historical fiction - Connie Willis writes excellent science fiction which is also excellent historical fiction; Erik Larson writes excellent history that reads like excellent historical fiction. I have read things in every genre I can think of. I have liked some works in every genre I can think of. I think I probably just like anything that I could categorize as Literary Fiction. I dislike categorizaton. (All of this also applies to 'write in') When chosen to be part of a movie I'm an actor. Just like real life!  Book finished today: The Glittering World by Robert Levy |
Today is Earth Day. A little known fact about Earth Day -- Originally they were going to have it on April 23rd, but that day was already taken, my birthday, so they decided to make it April 22nd.  I really like Earth Day. It makes me think back to before there was an Earth Day and the earth was a better place. More earth, less steel and concrete and garbage and people. More animals and plants and species of all sorts. More cultures and more diversity and less homogeneity. Back when I was a little boy and I could eat the earth, the dirt, without poisoning myself. I was an environmentalist, then I became disgruntled. Then I decided the way the space program was going I would be able to leave the earth and start out on a new planet, but then space exploration slowed to the point of almost non-existence, until I was almost too old. So I have decided, for the earth and for future generations, I'm going to genetically engineer a virus which renders 90% of the population sterile! (And yes! I thought of it before Dan Brown!)  If I could go anywhere for a writing retreat, (I assume this means to retreat somewhere in order to write, rather than go somewhere to retreat from writing. ), I guess I would go back to Dominica. The project would be to write the story of my life. No I wouldn't be able to finish it. I would be dead before I could write the ending. |
| I'm obsessive about pretty much everything. But I don't have a very long attention span. I'm amazed that I've been writing as much as I have. I'll probably become obsessed with new things before long. Anyway -- In my writing I don't think I necessarily go where the pain is, I would say I go where the emotion is. Pain, in the emotional sense, is a very strong emotion, so I'm sure I have been there in my writing often, but the emotion of pain itself evolves in my memory. What was pain in the past is now remembered as any number of things. Probably like the physical sense of pain in child-birth, ( I've only experienced it vicariously, but it seemed very real at the time), transforms itself into that overpowering sense of love. I find writing can be cathartic, writing previous pain into better, and hopefully more productive emotions. I don't need no shrink!!! Book Finished: The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins Can someone wax poetic - Without eventually waning poetic? I don't think so. But this may be a matter of opinion. I have read some very good poems - About beautiful sunsets. |
| In my opinion, (anyone who knows me, knows I'm extremely opinionated.), but, (you're entitled to your opinion too), I don't think the term 'emotional intelligence' should be used at all. The word 'intelligent' has begun to give me nightmares. Like in IQ tests. I could rant for hours about the misuse of the word intelligence. I think it all started when I read the book, "The Bell Curve" - very controversial because people thought it was racist - they saw it as pointing out that there was a significant difference between the intelligence of different groups of people. I read it as proving that there was no significant difference. I was . Furthermore, who thinks they are qualified to define intelligence in the first place?! EMOTION should have nothing to do with intelligence. I have an EXTREMELY high IQ and I sure wouldn't think of giving up my totally illogical emotions in order to retain it. So there! |
| 3-25-15 Book Finished: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishigawa CULTURAL GENOCIDE It was committed in the name of civilization, power, religion, hate, ignorance and human nature. I believe the saddest way was by the Christian missionaries who, in their ignorance, destroyed so many real gods. It continues. I don't like the homogenized result. Science is the explanation of interrelationships between mind and matter. Discovery is the defining of a set of specific relationships. I do believe that one should only live in the present, but, I also believe that one who studies history, and reads science fiction can have a significantly larger present. Book Finished: The Room by Jonas Karlson 3-26-15 Fewer and fewer periods of lucidity, and I seldom remember how long it's been since the last. That, I guess, is why it seems to be fewer and fewer. I must hurry before they no longer come. What will come then? Nothing? Periods of non-lucidity? Is that nothing? Or just something less? Or more? We shall see. Life is like a movie. A long series of frames, stored in a can. You can play the movie over and over and over, as often as you like, or not -- You can store it in a closet and never play it again. The film is still there. All those frames, stored in a can -- resting on a closet shelf. 3-27-15 Integration of particle physics and field dynamics. Is a field the smallest unit with a specific property? So, can it be said that as particles are units of matter, fields are units of property? How can the composition of a field be described? Can the reality, or composition of a particle be described in the same way as that of a field? 3-28-15 - 3-29-15 As a child I was filled with anxiety. I remember never being happy. I was always afraid I might accidentally do something wrong. Or worried that I had done something wrong. Not only in the sense of morally wrong, but also wrong in the sense of making simple mistakes, or giving wrong answers to questions. As I got older I found the fear of wrongness to be my constant companion. Anxiety controlled my life. I so feared humiliation that I became right most of the time, and usually able to prove myself right when others thought me wrong. But for some reason I could never conquer the anxiety. My rebellion was to purposely do wrong things. What could I get away with? How much wrong could I do without others finding out? I still had the anxiety, but now I also had the excitement of the charade. My changing philosophy throughout life mirrors my unhappiness and anxiety. I became happy when I proved to myself that there is no absolute right or wrong. I know when I'm right. As long as I am true to my own morality. Book Finished: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundra 3-30-15 - 3-31-15 A revolution can sometimes be avoided by the stimulation of evolution. Book finished: The Land Of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel And that catches my up!! |
| I don't admire many people. I love some. I pity many. But I admire few. The person I most admire is Steven Hawking. It would be dis-serving to my admiration to even mention why. To me it is obvious. The title of this entry is facetious. Although many of you don't think it is. I often talk to trees. I'm going to the SW US next week and I know some particularly old trees there. I'll be sure to ask them what they think. I think most of my tree friends will just say, "I hope they all die before they get around to cutting me down." 3-24-15 Redistribution of Wealth Marxism advocates the removal of assets from the rich, or removal of the rich themselves, and distribution of their wealth to the masses. The masses, in general, are not in a position to conserve and increase that wealth. It would obviously be a more productive solution for society to convince, and or force the wealthy that society deserves payment from them for the right to accumulate wealth, That payment should be in the form of providing the masses with the opportunity to raise themselves to the socio-economic level of the wealthy. I have devised a number of plans. Much more effective and less bloody than a war. |
| 3-22-15 through 3-23-15 Book Finished: Disgruntled by Asali Solomon Mind is free to proclaim that it has meaning within itself. Any portion of mind is free to partake of that meaning, or not. Mind, as mind, is nothing outside of itself. It cannot change reality in anyway, outside of what it is. Mind, as being, is supreme unto itself, but only unto itself. Reality without mind is solely reality. Mind is its own realm of absolute reality and has domain over itself, but only over itself. Mind is the creator of itself. If you are looking for a god, you need look no further than a thought. I, as a philosopher, accept myself as a scientist. I , as a scientist, accept myself as a philosopher. I wish everyone could get along as well as I do. Particle Theory vs. Field Theory (appearing in my port) Wish, and Seriosity, and Awaken also will hopefully be showing up there. |
| Most recently book: Dead Wake by Erik Larson Much of my time has been spent writing and thinking about good vs. evil. Now I'm just going to say that I don't believe that there is anything that can be construed as absolute truth - everything is relative. An individual must define his/her own good and evil. An individual can only be considered moral if they have defined their own morality and stand by it. The excuse that God or Devil made me do it, or not do it, does not apply. 3-21-15 Isn't trying too hard to not look like a racist actually a form of racism? I've been accused of racism when I treat everyone alike. Maybe I'm just a misanthrope. Odd for an anthropologist. "A Deja Vue" To appear in my port. |
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