Some parting thoughts, as I sit here in that adorably posh little neighborhood of Chartron, along the rue Notre-Dame, my farewell beer (grande, pas petite!) by my side in the open air (en plein air), preparing my departure after a transformative week in Bordeaux. My holiday flat along the Jardin Public was a treasure. AContinue reading ” Bordeaux Swills Belief”
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A City Whispers, A Cerberus Answers
The Cerberus is the guardian of the gates of hell from Greek mythology. He is a three headed watchdog on steroids. The fiercest guardian one can adopt to patrol the boundaries of all your protected spaces. And this is what we all need sometimes, a terrifying brutish force to ruthlessly guard the spaces in ourContinue reading “A City Whispers, A Cerberus Answers”
Resolutions
Purpose comes and goes with cursory teasings. It delights and uplifts you from the darkest corners of your mind. It beckons you to action. To make a plan, to write, to call a friend, to ask for help, to charge out the front door, to choose an adventure. It coaches you with a reassuring handContinue reading “Resolutions”
Accepting the Charges
We are all charged particles. Borrowing energy and jumping between excited states. Excited by our surroundings. Transformed by the tiniest of charges passing around us. The creative mind knows best how to open itself into a state of receiving. To be in a state that allows and evokes change. That excited state of a chargedContinue reading ” Accepting the Charges”
Caught in a peaceful wave function
I think a lot about superpositions. I don’t claim to be a die-hard science geek, but I do flirt with the occasional layperson’s physics books. Carl Sagan, David Grinspoon, Stephen Hawking, Neil to the Dee G T! Superpositions tell me how to understand competing truths, infinite possibilities, and things that just defy logic. There areContinue reading “Caught in a peaceful wave function “
Tiny Dormant Treasures
Meditations in your fathers garden You walk the garden and you feel them buried beneath. There’s an energy humming, a vibration of life, something sleeping, something wonderful, waiting in the dirt and the darkness. But waiting for what? The right conditions? The perfect season? Their best chance to be observed and admired by the bestContinue reading “Tiny Dormant Treasures”
Never play below your level
It will be tempting to engage when people are at their worst. It will be easy to sacrifice all the dignity and composure you’ve built up in your wiser middle years. People will test you, probe for the weak chinks in your fence. They don’t mean to, it comes from deep inside them, a needContinue reading “Never play below your level”
Unleashed with Dogged Intent
Have you ever seen an unleashed dog walking the sidewalk with all the authority of any other morning commuter? Your first thought will be to scan around for the owner. A dog without a leash is totally common in this neighborhood, but you’ll want to see any manner of upright individuals minding their ward inContinue reading “Unleashed with Dogged Intent”
Visions of Icarus
visions of Icarus, reflections on risk over stagnancy Something about that biggest of axial tilts and the longest of summer days that reminds you there’s a fleeting joy of flying close to the sun. Perhaps Icarus had the right idea, though his tale is so often told in foreboding shame. How dare you want toContinue reading “Visions of Icarus”
Don’t be an asshole to strangers
Don’t be an asshole to strangers, an essay by Paul Carreo This has been stewing for a while. It’s a stew of anger, contempt, and entitlement packed into a dutch oven, swirling together in its own rich sauce. It’s a stew approaching a point beyond infused blended flavor, into something inedible, something rank. It’s aContinue reading “Don’t be an asshole to strangers”
Paul Carreo 