The Adventures of LitBoy: Bill Brent's Blog

magick

I like how Christopher Hyatt explains magick (8:29):

e.g.: "It serves a psychological purpose .. reducing anxiety .. human beings need to feel that they're doing something to affect their environment, and their condition, and their situation."

And: "Magick is closer to science than it is religion, and religion fundamentally hates both magick and science. And rightfully so."

Also:

"Disaster is what brings the best of us out."

"A child should be a work of art, not simply some biological necessity that any moron can make happen."

There are plenty more gems 'n' pearls within (and this is but part two of seven). I tend to feel calmer after I listen to Christopher Hyatt. Less isolated.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2012.05.15, 11:35 a.m. Pacific time]

writer

WHAT IT IS.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2012.05.04, 2:30 a.m. Pacific time]

home

"What’s the difference between a house and a home?
A house is a place to live, but a home is a place to love."
-- me, talking with a young realtor, 11/11/2005

I've been thinking about "home" a lot lately -- in fact, it has been topic #1 for me since I left the Big Island last summer. Since then, I've been in California and Ohio, returned to the Big Island, and now I'm in California again.

None of these places has really felt like home.

The place I'm in now, though, is starting to feel like home. I have resisted it, because there is a lot here that doesn't fit MY idea of home. Yet it is still my friend's home. And so I will begin acting as if I feel at home here. Because this is where I am for now.

It feels like I am working from the outside in.

And I want to feel comfortable again, healthier in my body. This is one reason I haven't been blogging lately -- sitting at the computer tends to make me uncomfortable. However, I finally discovered how to enlarge fonts in Windows browser pages -- ctrl-plus. (Actually, I discovered this on a Macintosh, where I believe it is Apple-plus.) So now I don't have to spend so much time with my glasses on, which means my eyes hurt less, so I can spend a bit more time at the computer.

Anyway, here's a picture I took of something in the backyard here:

And here's a question I'd love to hear you answer:

How do you define HOME?

 

 

 

 

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2012.05.01, 4:20 p.m. Pacific time | photo credit: Bill Brent]

rules

So tonight I broke some of my rules: Ate extra dishes of chocolate ice cream. Scoop of almond butter on top of that. And washed it all down with milk, which I usually avoid after 7 p.m. because of phlegm. I want to go to sleep without teh flemz....

When you are deeply, terribly in a rut,* it may be a good time to try breaking some of your own rules. Because at that point, really, what else have you got to lose?

P.S. I have to add that eating the two extra servings of chocolate ice cream definitely helped me stay at the computer for an extra little while! I think there's something to the idea of momentarily distracting yourself with pleasure so that you don't focus on pain.

* = as I have been for the past few months, largely cuz body pain doesn't permit me to sit at the computer for long periods of times to write things like, say, this blog. So maybe we'll try short posts like this for a while.

 

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2012.04.02, 10:47 p.m. Pacific time

CONFIDENCE

Great wisdom within from one who shows us how we can keep learning and growing at any age, in any stage of life:

How my big challenge boosted my confidence.

I am really enjoying this blog!


Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent