Category Archives: paying attention

Thinking Cattywampus

Posted on February 10, 2018 by randomyriad

Here are some random slightly askew ideas to shift your point of view and maybe your approach to life. There are so many perspectives to consider if you just pay attention. “But what I really want is to have it … Continue reading →

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Quotes from the Tao Te Ching #2

Posted on January 8, 2018 by randomyriad

From: #67 Three Treasures: I have three treasures, I keep and treasure them. The first, mercy, the second, moderation,  the third, modesty. If you’re merciful you can be brave, If you’re moderate you can be generous, and if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Leave a Little Window Open: a Breeze Will Wake You.

Posted on November 12, 2017 by randomyriad

“Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go to sleep after lunch in the room where I work, sometimes I wake up with a feeling of … Continue reading →

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Drums of Passion

Posted on October 16, 2017 by randomyriad

At some point in my late teenage years, I was looking through a bin of miscellaneous foreign music in the Tower Records store on Broadway in Sacramento, and I came across this album. I don’t remember what about it caught … Continue reading →

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Painted Rocks Traveling North

Posted on September 4, 2017 by randomyriad

We were walking in downtown Bandon, Ore on Saturday 8/19, and I found a rock painted like a strawberry and camouflaged on a fire hydrant when I turned it over I saw #WCPR painted on the back. I put that … Continue reading →

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