20200104

If it is foolish to fall in love with the ideal of someone, it is dangerous to fall in love with the idea of someone.

Waste no more time convincing the fool, especially not when it is you.

20191230

Those who share, have something to give.

Those who share not, have nothing.

The fool will not look.
The lay cannot see.
The intellect will look.
The wise see.

Ear plugs made of ego, make the fool.

The wise prune the dead limbs by choice.

The fool go out on dead limb and prune by accident.

The fool cannibalizes their soul to feed their ego.

If there is no self-accountability given, there is no responsibility taken.

Ego is a gift held by fools and a burden lost by the wise.

A bully has back-up to compensate for an ego that otherwise has no defense.

The fool bystander fears the aggressor only when they have personal profit to gain.

I See You

Without your makeup

Without your muscles

With the bags under your eyes

With the softness in your thighs,

I see you.

Without your stoic self

Without your unapologetic self

With your hidden tears

With your vulnerable self,

I see you.

Past the violence you commit

For the harm you deny

Past the wall you have built

For the fear you feed,

I see you.

Beyond the smoke you toke

Beyond the drink you take

Through pain that feigns laughter

Though uncertainty that belies confidence,

I see you.

Despite your failures

Not in spite of your successes

So busy with accomplishments

So boastful of your efforts,

I see you

As the tender soul

As the terrified one

Who strives without

Who struggles onward,

I see you.

Never with an apology

Ever with the denial

Hardly the recognition

Rarely the action,

I see you.

For the day shall come

Only after the night concedes

With only the hope that
you’ll see another, too.

20191224

Quality and crap are cut from the same cloth.

Feed a fool cornbread and call it cake —
and the fool will eat and give thanks.
But fool no one else, the dry, crumbly,
sad substitute of a cake will.

20191204

The fool resorts to revenge.
The average resorts to repression.
The intelligent resorts to resolution.
The wise resorts to responsiveness. 

20191111

Fools will welcome your affection.
Most will tolerate your existence.
Few will question your truth.
The wise will accept your contradictions.

Be true to yourself, or be true to no one.

If you are untrue to even one, you are untrue to at least two — the other and yourself.

Knowing truth is knowing what it means to be alone.

Reality is not to scale.
Understanding is partial.
Perception is skewed.
Experience is biased.

Let everything without words say everything that words cannot say.

20190913

Apply the brakes, only at speed. 

The wise brakes, at speed.
The fool breaks, at rest.

20180214

For fear of making a sound, the fool clings to a bell she dares not ring.

20180106

Who does not give up an apology so claims an error forever as his own. 

The fool who is right is deaf, for his unwilliness to listen to the truth. 
The lay who might be right is dumb, for his unwillingness to set aside his pride. 
The intellect who might be wrong questions, for the potential to gain the truth. 
The wise who is wrong apologizes, for in giving up his pride he gains the truth. 

20170312

The fool use physical force to resolve philosophical differences. The wise use philosophical might to overcome physical indifference. 
 
A problem is but a question. 

If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps ingenuity is the daughter of competition. 

20160917

The fool fills a void with a vacuum.

The silence of a void cannot be filled with the sound of a vacuum.