Neuroscientist explains how your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
Aug
20
2017
“To anyone trying to get ahead, in the restaurant business or really any industry, I’d say, set goals — short, mid, and long term. You don’t have to be a slave to them, but you need to get on a path to what you think is a better place, whether that’s owning a restaurant, working in Aspen in the summer and the Caribbean in the winter, or whatever. Find the lifestyle that is conducive to making you extremely happy. Happiness is so much more important than money. I know a bunch of stoned-out bus drivers in San Francisco who are […]
I’m healing a broken heart. I’ve seen myself as damaged for a long time. I often wonder at it. Like it’s a sweater periodically taken out of storage I hold up to the light looking at the moth holes. What should be whole, warm and cozy has damage, that I can’t quite figure out why is still there. I didn’t realize that the moth holes weren’t really there, just an illusion created from one long intertwined thread that leads all the way back to the day my heart broke in the back seat of a car on a hot summer […]
I’m trying so hard to not be angry. But I acknowledge that a Trump/GOP bacchanal of injustice is going to trigger me. I know what my experiences in life have been and I know from talking to those with similar experiences that they are true. TRUE. My father was an abusive alcoholic. My mother is a co-dependent enabler. I think I’m talking about the latter today. (My bartender stacks up my ciders as I write this. The liquid is used to drain the filter. Liquid to not empathize, excuse, not say that those who trespass against me are right to […]
If you become meditative while making love, the quality of sex changes, and something new enters into it – it becomes tantric, it becomes prayerful, it becomes meditative it becomes Samadhi. – Osho read some more
Dating is horrible. Online dating give you the opportunity to beat horrible to death. It’s a lot of work, for highly questionable returns. Which means that it can make people crazy. Before I divorced and joined the ranks of online daters, I would talk to my friends about their dating experiences and found that women I admire; women who were amazing leaders, friends and business people were in fact… the crazy bitches who my male friends would say showed up on dates. Women told me the same stories I had heard from men; stories about breaking down crying, screaming at […]