What matters paradox, originally uploaded by Buster Benson.

Sometimes I need to remind myself that the categories that my brain dutifully slots everything that passes its way are merely fabrications that help turn my world into one that I can handle, and aren’t correlated to an actual quality in the world.

Mu.

What you should do today, originally uploaded by Buster Benson.

I didn’t realize how hard I was being on myself until I took a second to relax and give myself a break. So I wrote this out and have it on my desk until I can get it through my head that the only way to keep going for as long as I want to keep going is by giving ourselves a break and forgiving ourselves for not being 100% every waking moment.

Consider this a public service announcement to remember to relax.

5 atomic units of life, originally uploaded by Buster Benson.

Sometimes I wonder if these are the only 5 verbs we really need when it comes to our sense of selves. We do things, that lead to feeling a certain way; we learn things that change who we are; we get things that help us do things so that we can have more things; we feel things that make us do things that teach us something about ourselves.

What changes is the objects of these verbs, and the order that the pinball bounces between them, sometimes hitting them all, sometimes bouncing from do to feel back to do back to feel over and over again, sometimes one atomic unit grows to engulf the others so that everything eventually relates back to how we feel, or what we have, or who we are.