“The secret of it all,” says Walt Whitman, “is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place.” Now, I don’t really know what the throb or the gush are, … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 122: Embrace the Now!
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500 WORDS, DAY 100: I Appreciate You Reading!
Today is my hundredth day in a row of writing and posting at least five hundred words on this blog. It’s cool to see that my thoughts resonate with some people, even if it’s just a few people here and there. One of the coolest things about reading something like philosophy, or other people’s ideas … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 100: I Appreciate You Reading!
500 WORDS, DAY 54: Influence Pt. 2
Yesterday I introduced the idea of changing up the method by which I get these daily posts done. The change I’m referring to is that now, instead of randomly writing about whatever comes to mind, in a sort of stream-of-consciousness manner, I will instead choose one specific topic to write about, and I will go … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 54: Influence Pt. 2
1,000 WORDS (2nd attempt): DAY 11: Productive Weed Highs.
So yesterday I wrote a bit about how, not wanting to quit smoking weed, I decided a few years back to try to spend most of my stoned time doing something creative, something productive. The reason I ended up writing about that yesterday was because I started by writing about the fact that, at least … Continue reading 1,000 WORDS (2nd attempt): DAY 11: Productive Weed Highs.
1,000 WORDS (2nd attempt): DAY 9: Reading is a Great Hobby.
For the last year and a half I've kept up a goal of reading a book every week, or every two weeks, or occasionally a month, depending on how many pages the book has, but usually it takes me a week to read a book of around 150-200 pages. I can honestly say that this … Continue reading 1,000 WORDS (2nd attempt): DAY 9: Reading is a Great Hobby.
FREE E-BOOK: ‘SIDDHARTHA’ (1922), written by Hermann Hesse
'SIDDHARTHA' Written by Hermann Hesse, originally in German. Published in 1922. ‘Siddhartha’ is a simple story of a boy’s struggle and spiritual journey as he finds his way through a life of contemplation and contradiction. This boy, Siddhartha, lived in the time of the Buddha, Gautama himself, and at one point in the story, along … Continue reading FREE E-BOOK: ‘SIDDHARTHA’ (1922), written by Hermann Hesse
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