Dicey Ice
In the end, no matter how famous you are, how much wealth you’ve accumulated, the vitamins you’ve taken, the exercises you’ve done, you’re bound to die.
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Are You an Arthropod?
I don’t want to be an ant, you know? I mean, it’s like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant auto-pilot with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing…
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Miss Me, America? [Italy Trip Pt. 1]
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli U-S-A…U-S-A… Wearing the same pair of boxers for the third day in a row, my whole body aching from sleeping in the airport, the 5 euros in my pocket literally the only money I…
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Oh Snow You Didn’t!
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young Isn’t snow beautiful? The graceful tumble of those flakes. The powdering of the ground, every dimple in the road, every lonely branch, fleeced in the serenity…
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The Pale Blue Dot
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home…The aggregate of our joy and suffering… every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,”…
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How I (Can) Control You
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton With the right combination of words, I can convince anyone to do anything. Or so I believed when I was eight-years-old, standing beside my brother after persuading him to stick sleeping Dad’s fingers in a bowl of warm water. And even though Dad woke instantly…
