We found the lost children, right in front of our eyes. Here the whole time, eyes open, minds shut. Not thinking it could be closer to home. Each of us has our individual intellect to blame for where we are. How lost we are. If we didn’t practice escaping from reality, we wouldn’t be so …
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How To Quatro
How to role-play: Obtain 12-sided die. Create map. Paint miniatures. Use your imagination. Dread the return to reality. How to be unscientific: Latch on to common chestnuts. Spout common chestnuts at every possible moment. Pretend everyone else is less intelligent. Argue for narrow-minded ideas. Get offended at disagreements with your bias. How to be scientific: …
Obsession
Count how many times a person mentions a particular topic. Find the topic with the highest count and you’ve found their obsession. For some, an obsession will be a sport. They might be a bit zealous over hockey or hang gliding, baseball or bocce ball. For others, they might obsess over politics or public figures, …
Gentle Spin Cycle
Some days you don’t feel so much human, but more like a piece of laundry. The message here, I guess one of them anyway, is that you are not alone. I mean, I don’t know everyone, though I know a few thousand, and of those I do know, they all have days when they say …
Pulling Out of a Slump
That’s all it takes really. Look above. A picture of a blue-eyed kitten is a great way to deal with the doldrums, the blues, the slump, the blockage, the writer’s constipation. So many names for a low-down mood. So many ways to define sorrows. Why do we do it? Why do we spend so much …
