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Today, Over the Years . . .

Oct 7, 2025
A few things I say often that I think are pretty clever and hopefully helpful:

• “There are solutions to these problems” (to transition a conversation away from a problems-focused rant to a solutions-focused brainstorm).
• “Let [him/her] surprise you” (to short-circuit your feedback loop of overthinking and rumination about how some interpersonal conflict or conversation is going to go, when you are assuming how another person will respond instead of just focusing on what you can control).
• “**The burden is not knowing **” (to counsel someone who is suffering and who is reluctant to share about their experience for fear of being a burden to others)

Here’s an analogy to describe the difference between effusive and explosive volcanic eruptions: one is like a geyser (explosive) and the other like a spring (effusive).

It’s also important to note that explosive eruptions are masculine, whereas effusive eruptions are feminine. This is most explicitly evident in the fact that male ejaculation is explosive/geyser-like and female ejaculation effusive/spring-like.

The defining feature of the yin Yang symbol are the two small dots within the two swirling shapes. Those dots are known as the seed of the opposite, and the seeds are what make the yin Yang symbol, one of creation, entanglement, and interdependence, rather than mere interaction or collaboration. The one is within the other, and both yin and yang are defined relative to each other.

Oh my God! Oh my, God? Oh, I’m God.

(Line for a fictional dream-scene):

I saw myself inside another woman, through the eyes and mind of my love in the moment I made her hate me.

Volcanoes deliver new mass Aloft, depressions in the earth receive snowfall Snowfall, compiles and compresses into rivers of ice: Glaciers, the wombs of new space. Rivers of rock freeze into mountains; Rivers of ice melt into valleys.

Oct 6, 2024
You don’t want your reader to stumble because of the trail you’ve written. They should be able to follow it with ease, without any missteps. Your reader should never struggle for the quality of your trail, only for the challenge of the terrain.

Oct 5, 2023
Fun reading is memorable writing.

Give unsolicited praise and criticism upon request.

Pass no judgement, give only feedback.

Level no judgement, give only feedback.

Change is the only certainty. To be certain of anything else is to be in denial of change.

Change is the only certainty. Being certain of anything else is merely a failure to accept change.

The only certainty in life is change. Certainty of anything else is merely a failure to accept change.

In logical writing, truth is explicit. In lyrical writing, truth is felt. Meta writing is about how to best communicate truth through language.