25lines, redux

you talk much but say little.

is simply sublime. actually i like all of his stuff. mostly. but the piano pieces fill the void.

eyes closed, theres warmth within.

Little is more delightful than awakening at my leisure in the morning. Guess what I intend to do in the morning. Good night. [edit: and apparently when i do this, my body decides that i should wake up < 4 hours after i go to bed. you win this round, body... you win this round.]

or a summary in parts. *** slow (read: relaxed) day at work. i am growing to sincerely appreciate japan in its glory. if nothing else, it is different. the creativity that they produce is in truth unique. the people who do it love their work for sure. i have a reverence for the food. seemingly [...]

back to basics. coast to coast. california in a week, road-trip down, along the pacific coast – then surf’s up for the weekend. we’ll show up. hopefully the waves will too. good times ahead.

Excellence is a way of life. ’nuff said.

seemingly harmless manifest distrust there is honour in difficult truths.

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i realize now in retrospect, that i’ve been too vested in too few choices. it has been suggested that to start, maybe i needed to hand pick a more diversified portfolio. there are trade-offs either way – when you’re more attached to fewer positions, you grow and mature with them, but with a diversified set, [...]

sharp like an edge of a samurai sword the mental blade cut through flesh and bone

rashid says to remove things from our personal space as we get new ones. new comes in, old goes out. there is balance, there is an equilibrium. This is good. in preparation, we remove the unnecessary, the clutter, the superfluous. and then when there is a new vase, we rid ourselves of an old vase. [...]

it is better to speak less, but with greater weight than otherwise. yes, there is value in that. words are not meant to be wasted; expunged from the self in a flush of hot air or set free in a flurry of motion. seriously, just shut up. i’ve had enough. actually, from days yonder, it [...]