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Category Archives: Personal Life
To Be Born Again…
I feel like doing something drastic. At this point I think something drastic is necessary. I feel like shaving my beard. Or my head. Maybe both. I feel like getting all of my tattoos removed, or getting a whole shit-load … Continue reading
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Tagged Dagny, despair, longing, regret, Samantha Owens, sorrow
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Derealization
I hate that feeling when you don’t know what to do with yourself; when you’re alone, and there’s plenty to do, but you don’t do any of it because all of it seems foreign, like you just walked into a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Life, Writing
Tagged anxiety, Dagny, depression, Derealization, guilt, loneliness, Love, regret, remorse, Sadness, Samantha Owens, sorrow
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Showered and Blue-Blazered…
I hate the early morning, and the ugly light of sunrise; it’s the harbinger of meticulously knotted ties, and thick black, bitter drinks. I hate the way I speak, as if everything is important; everything is funny, everything is fine. … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Writing
Tagged business, career man, corporate life, cubicle work, Dagny, Love, regret, remorse, Samantha, Samantha Owens, showered and blue blazered, work, working
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A Note to My Love on the Day of My Death
I fear the permanent silence that comes when death loosens the knots of life, and we slip into the undiscovered country. I fear that hole in my heart knowing that it’s something that can never be repaired; that absolution is … Continue reading
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Tagged death, Love, regret, writing
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Philip James Donovan
May 8th is an important date. Yeah, I know that May 8, 1429 was the day that French troops under Joan of Arc rescued Orleans. But it’s important for more than that. It’s the day that my best friend … Continue reading
Happiness v. Virtue: A Quote by Henry Sidgwick
It’s been a week since my last post, and I apologize. In fact, my last post wasn’t that great. It was a drunk and delirious tirade that didn’t deserve to stay up, so I shit canned it. Needless to say … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Personal Life, Philosophy, Writing
Tagged aesthetics, Been Gone A Long Time, Dagny, ethics, Facedownphilosophy, happiness, Henry Sidgwick, morality, philosophy, Samantha Owens, Schopenhauer, Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, virtue, writing
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My New Life
Most people haven’t yet read what I’m about to post, so I’m posting it here on the primary page of my blog. I didn’t think to post it here until this morning when a beautiful and intelligent writer friend of … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Writing
Tagged anguish, breaking up, Dagny, desire, divorce, longing, Love, regret, remorse, Samantha Owens, suffering, writing
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