Category Archives: thinking in words

Random Acts of Inspiration: 100 Prompts to Change My Mind

Posted on February 1, 2022 by randomyriad

I am often caught in a pattern of repetitive negative thinking and my brain needs a little jolt to skip into a more positive creative groove. Lately I have been stuck in a rut of thick mental clay slowing my … Continue reading →

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Or Shall We Die?

Posted on December 19, 2021 by randomyriad

From the Writing of “or shall we die?” by Ian McEwan from Granta 7, originally published 1983. For all the complex discussion of nuclear strategy with unique blend of logic and paranoia, at heart, the situation had about it the … Continue reading →

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Life After the Fall

Posted on November 27, 2021 by randomyriad

FOR WHAT BINDS US There are names for what binds us:strong forces, weak forces.Look around, you can see them:the skin that forms in a half-empty cup,nails rusting into the places they join,joints dovetailed on their own weight.The way things stay … Continue reading →

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Perspective Matters

Posted on September 18, 2021 by randomyriad

“We,” human beings, are first and foremost the subjects who do the observing of this world, the collective makers of the photograph of reality that I have tried to compose. We are the nodes in a network of exchanges (of … Continue reading →

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Non-sequential Autobiography of an Inchoate Semipermeable Interactive Conglomerate Collective Entity #1

Posted on September 14, 2021 by randomyriad

(All My Life) Trying to Fill A Person Shaped Hole in the World One Evening Child My whole being drawn Inward toward A Sheltering Skin Curled inside a pillowcase Naked Under Control Sticks and Twigs Boy with Shock of white … Continue reading →

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