Smiles from the Dead

Producing these daily blogs happens to be a wonderful way to write a letter to a friend. I find and organize the videos, to make a meaningful and fun experience.

It generally takes me about three hours to complete a video blog like this one, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

Most of the videos I review, I never use. They have to have a certain set of qualities, and the length has to be tolerable. Continue reading →

The Same Thing Happens

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The same thing happens, no matter who’s in charge. That’s my prediction for the next year on planet Earth.

It won’t matter, and it double won’t matter which senators and congresspeople get elected or thrown out of Congress, the same thing is going to happen, and you’re not going to like it. Continue reading →

LTSF (Lank Tod Sis Friday)

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That’s what happens when your fingers are not on the “Home Row” keys. Well, here it is Friday again, and once again it catches me by surprise. I don’t like weekends. They don’t make jokes on youtube about anything during the weekend — you have to wait until Tuesday to get the jokes from Monday.

You know, if you stop to think about it, it’s a fact that pretty much nothing you can do in this world can be made to last forever, or even very long, and it magnifies the fact that the lifespan of most of your efforts will do well if they make it past a couple of weeks. Continue reading →

On the Start of a New Day

Once many years ago, I somehow came across the idea that you can change anything, but only temporarily, in the organic world. Real change can only come outside of space and time.

Well, hell, that means me. What I mean is, that’s my specialty — making things work inside the world by operating outside the domain.

We all know what that is — an operator, generally f6. Continue reading →

Walking in the Bardos

Here are some Bardo Walk Exercises for you, from my upcoming guidebook of the same name.

You should be looking as you wander, for familiar faces — people you recognize, people you know, and people who seem familiar. All three of those categories are operating at the same time. You can indicate where there is a match, and use the space bar to stop the video to examine the scene better. Continue reading →