Obedience is only impressive when it's reflexive, immediate, and enthusiastic. She is focused, enthusiastic, positive, and of one mind to please.

The better part of blue hour doesn't really last a full hour. This enchanting window—right before night's veil falls—lasts about 30 minutes, sadly. All beauty is fleeting in a Universe that is constantly moving and shifting energies. Carpe crepusculum. :-)

One politician says something I agree with. The other does, too. Yet both harbor inane ideologies. I see a Golden Path forward and want to sweep aside the tribal stupidity diverting us from it. I can feel myself gradually turning into a supervillain.

Researching colors for blue hour. youtu.be/Iy_daZm2m88?si=c3s4…

The Internet should be renamed to the Intergrift.

Amae (甘え): The desire to depend emotionally on another person, trusting in their affection, protection, and willingness to indulge one's vulnerability or childlike dependency.

Heart full. Mouth full. Womb full.

Never underestimate the ability of the Democratic Party to find an entirely unelectable candidate who continues to scare Americans into voting Republican.

"When all has gone to blazes, I start to run Until I find places where nobody’s gone." youtu.be/Ea0ImQ0c1E4

Only the proletariat surf the web with phones. The bourgeois use large laptop or desktop screens. Also the visually declining.

Every religious and political ideology is looking for the perfect moral system, but the enduring cosmic joke is that none exist.

Men: Do you have a loyal servant or do you have a woman in thrall to her latest feelings? When her inner verdict becomes searing jealousy, building resentment, or tragic boredom, what then? Is she still yours? Look again.

"Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed." —Henry S. Haskins

One of the things I've painstakingly learned while writing a book: The Internet is filled with misattributed quotes of witty, pithy, and wise statements, from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Lao Tzu.

Did you ask for the things they have dreamt for you?

“When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his own hands—like water. And if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.” —Robert Bolt

Pay attention to what someone reveals early on. It's rare that jealousy, anger, deception, betrayal, or defiance happen only once. The moment they occur and quickly recede, you are only seeing the tip of the iceberg, no matter how well hidden or explained away they are.

All things in nature have boundaries. Never destroy a wall, barrier, fence, or border until you understand what they are preserving, containing, or preventing.

To whom it may concern: Contrary to popular belief, Pavlov never used a bell with his dogs to induce conditioned responses with food. It was (usually) a metronome.