Music Playlist Hub PINNEDI shall gather all my music playlists here, my suggestion for those who have literally nothing else to do, is to go back and forth when reflectiveness or partying start to have adverse effects, then go to the other one!! [ hope others can enjoy and... See More » (2)
Sounds, a playlist for reading and sleeping PINNEDThis is bookended with Max Richter's Sleep, which is musical, the rest in-between are just sounds of nature and appliances and stuff that can block out unwanted sounds which you cannot control, hence provided some alleviation. After the 2nd... See More » (10)
My new username is referencing a store that sold toysBooksRMe is also being bluntly descriptive of what all of life is for me, I only regret I couldn't make the R go bacwards as they were in the Toys R Us stores. I'm done posting for today .... hint hint it's only 3 hrs till midnight here .....;)... See More »
Relaxing and listening to The PrinceIt's silly but it would have been nice if the Purple Artist from Minnesota could have written a Foreword to it. Chapter 1 - 2:58 Chapter 2 - 3:57 Chapter 3 - 5:33 Chapter 4 - 23:49 Chapter 5 - 29:49 Chapter 6 - 32:39 Chapter 7 - 40:34 Chapter 8 -... See More » (1)
A bit of Kierkegaard's Diapsalmata from Either/Or I wish he could have written entire books like this!! (1)
Too much too soon, may be the thing keeping one from comprehension of anythingTo rush forth without reflecting may keep us from really grasping certain things. To let some things sit with us, we'll see it from different angles, knowing the matter more thoroughly that at first. However with overthinking a matter, we can be led... See More »
The closing thought from Samuel Johnson's The Rambler #9(Quote) This was nicely put I must say, to focus on an isolated portion of things is to the detriment of the other part.
Perusing is all I doAnd yet a personal problem well may be a huge problem, it's what then defines and forms one's worldview, from which their actions follow suit, to know intimately these big personal problems would be like a key that in the wrong hands could destroy... See More »
Once you start it's advisable to keep goingSomething I agree with in the Bible is the sentiment of Solomon, that increasing knowledge means also increasing one's sense of misery. However to then be anti-knowledge so as to procure a felicitous mindset would in my opinion be even worse,... See More »
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort's Maxims and ThoughtsHere is numbers 13 and 14, sorry for coughing, it seems that I can go hours without doing so, but once I record something even for a short time i';; cough, it's like using the vocal chords arouses the physiognomic need to do so. Chamfort was one of... See More » (1)
I'm gonna do what i was gonna do today on WednesdayI'll get the eye stuff and the meds and a chat with doc on the same day. Ahhh now i can sleep like i didn't last night.
Peder B. Helland's EndlessI really like this to read to, it's just the kind of thing I used to like before I had the internet at home, there were some "nature" CDs i'd gotten at a grocery store for a buck or so, and it was like this stuff here, but with some nature sounds... See More » (1)
From March 26 to April 2, i'll be drinking instant coffeeLook at that, it even has the sugar and cream already a part of it, just pour that packet in my mug, grab a water bottle pour it in and nuke it for something like 2 minutes, i'll probably do it too long first time so it bubbles over and makes the... See More »
Just a couple thingsWhen i'm all into the theology, as i've expressed before here, one source is like the Criterion Collection of Reformed Theology -- Reformation Heritage Books. Now one of their most extensive sets they've done recently, which is still ongoing are the... See More »
Something on the horizonI tacked this bit of info at the end of previous post, but it deserves it's own post. Brother suggested I see an Optometrist in town here, and with info from there once registered and stuff, brother could order new glasses online for me for cheap,... See More »
Fiscal lowdown for meI am looking at a decrease of 200 a month, there were a few steps I needed to follow correctly to avoid this but I did step 2 before step 1, step 1 is in 2 parts, i've been researching it like I should have last summer! And then part 2 is done by my... See More »
One week to goThursday 19 Friday 20 -- walk over to the pharmacy to get my pill refills Saturday 21 Sunday 22 Monday 23 -- see dad and get a new phone, and get 50 dollars worth of food, might need some coffee grounds too Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 --... See More »
The Characters of Jean de La BruyereI love this book and as a testament to it's worth even the introduction which is sampled here, is full of wonderful thoughts to be thinking about. Perhaps it's because i'm completely devoid of some of the social graces such as the ability to... See More » (1)
Edward Gibbon -- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire24 minutes, 20 of which are prefatory stuff, and then 4 minutes of chapter 1, on Out Loud, In Clear, an imaginary podcast of a silly guy who can't pronounce correctly most names and places, but is like a lobotomy patient all to glad to be... See More » (2)
• CARMEN MIRANDA • 1940 • Mama eu quero.aviI love it when reading there's a citing of a song, to then go to YouTube and listen to it, this was referenced in Lispector. And so I have to share this golden little dittie before I lie down with the blue pill beginning to work it's wonders and I... See More » (1)
Out Loud, In Clear #1I love reading out loud, so I do this as a partial part of my reading, each vocaroos will be about an hour, and will feature an off the cuff blending of things, here we have 1) La Bruyere 2) Horace 3) Rilke 4) Lispector 5) Petrarch 6) Cioran 7) Rumi... See More » (2)
A collective of brilliant brevityWhat works best is these which have short sections, put together they form the greatest devotional on my own terms: 0. Lao Tzu -- Tao te ching -- I award it the nothing number 1. Seneca's Letters on Ethics 2. Epictetus' Handbook and Discourses 3.... See More »
Defining is maligningWhat is only names and titles is not even a skeleton of the matter, and as one experiences each thing, it is a synthesis that happens in the cooperating mind, the action that is a part of learning is the reading of them. No way is perfect for me,... See More »
#2 The Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorA short final novel by Clarice, I failed to put her in The Group list, but she is so in there, she's a breathe of fresh air, I saw in the Introduction to this slim volume that she was an anti-literary sort, the opposite of Samuel Johnson, and... See More » (1)
