Awareness
No person escapes death.
Just as their birth
Was out of their hands
So is their end.
The difference
Is awareness.
Viewing the World Through Creative Observation
In the never-ending battle between right and left brain thinking I too often let the left hemisphere rule. When I drive I seek the most efficient route rather than the nicest one. When I shop I have on blinders in the form of an explicit list and I exclude everything else from even the consideration …
Alien Robot Car
Orange Desert Flower
How to Take Good Blurry Photographs
Photographers spend most of their time trying to take sharp photos. They set their camera on a tripod and ensure a fast enough shutter speed. They’ll sit around for hours waiting for the wind to die down before they trigger the camera. And when they do trip the shutter, it’s usually with a remote switch …
Just Write Something
Over the years I’ve written prose, short fiction and poetry. But consistently writing, refining and finishing pieces has always been a struggle for me. Sometimes I’m inspired. The words just come to me. Or my first draft says exactly what I wanted it to say and in the way I wanted to say it. However, …
Do What You Love
My son and I were looking for a new video game to play today when we came across one called CTRL-CV. Your character tries to navigate different rooms with platforms, spring loaded platforms, spikes and holes in the ground. At the same time you have doppelgangers that multiply rapidly around you. The longer you wait …
Hacking Your Mind
Have you ever been watching TV show where someone is having a heart attack and you start to feel a tightness in your chest or a pain in your left arm? Or maybe someone is standing on top of a tall building and you start to feel dizzy? When you watch a show or read …
Another Picture of a Tree
Let Me Bend Your Ear
I love how you can tell the direction of the prevailing winds for an area by just looking at the trees. These two looked like they were sharing a secret other than just the direction of the wind.