Feel like I’m Tom Brady throwing a pass to one of his running backs last night. Something I should be doing with ease, but I manage to screw it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prompt I had queued up for today’s entry is suspiciously close to something I’d written about a few days ago. It involved which book has had a lasting effect on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wrote about How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World<\/em>. In discussions yesterday, it occurred to me that despite years that had passed since I last read the book, I was actually sort of doing some of the things he recommended in the path to freedom. I was getting rid of debts, getting rid of complicating commitments arrangements, etc.. I moved, and continued down that path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Though it wasn’t running through my head when I wrote that, it sorta jibes with Charles Grodin’s book title — It Would Be So Nice If You Weren’t He<\/strong><\/em>re). Looking at the linked entry, however, I did sort of do that again. There’s little other than toxicity, and misinformation on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been posting links to my ramblings up there somewhat sporadically, but wonder if it’s even worth doing, anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On to a newfound prompt for this today….<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is there somewhere specific you like to go when you want to come up with ideas? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n There really isn’t a place. I really can’t leave my apartment. I do occasionally just sort of zone out, and try to get thoughts to come to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot of what I’ve been listening to with Pete’s<\/a> podcasts about what he’s done\/is doing with meditation. When I started at CNU, I was in the Honors program. The stuck-in-1974 professor had us reading Ram Dass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was very opposed to doing anything I considered um, mystical, back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Around age twenty, I considered myself a committed atheist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The more that I considered the, as I call them, evangelical agnostics, really bothered me. Unsurprisingly, South Park<\/em> had an episode <\/a>about those sorts of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My psychologist also recommended someone who was pushing meditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t know that I’m ready to go whole- But back to the topic, I don’t go anywhere. I just relax and think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n News.<\/p>\n\n\n\nhog<\/s>om, and try to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n