Tyler Weaver's Blog, page 37
August 5, 2019
The Longbox Quandary, Continued – Maybe(?)*
The comic book collection (circa 1989-2011, give or take) is, at last, here: three long boxes, four suitcases / overnight bags, and three other boxes of various size and fortitude.
I have no idea where to put them, no idea how to organize them, no idea where to start. Or how. Or if.
Maybe I should make a longbox investment and organize them properly (worth noting: longboxes purchased between 1989 and 1999 are still intact; those purchased after that have fallen apart, hence the luggage / st...
August 4, 2019
(Currently) 04aug2019
Newsletter 0061 is on its way; regular morning ramblings return tomorrow. Happy Sunday.
August 3, 2019
Of Entropic Rebalancings
Life being little more than a series of rhythmic reorientations – familial, life, career, etc – each iteration a transportation / translation into a new normal in which balance restores / reasserts itself.
Sometimes the rebalancing is a lengthy, steady transition, designed with room to breathe and pockets of air, others with an off-rhythm cymbal crash at a moment of entropy’s choosing – a reminder that we are merely contestants in a race with entropy, a race whose length and terminus is decid...
August 2, 2019
(Currently) 02aug2019
Because a house is not a home without a gigantic resin piggy bank.
Of Sanctioned Rumination
Rumination, defined:
1.) a deep or considered thought about something; the action or process of thinking deeply about something.
2.) the action of chewing the cud.
Among my therapist’s many print-outs was the phrase, “Chewing the cud,” which, until I had the occasion – after listening to Dr. Mithu Storoni discuss her book, STRESS PROOF, and the status of rumination as one of the foundations of chronic stress, on the Art of Manliness podcast – to look up the actual definition of rumination, I...
August 1, 2019
Conversations With Myself With Apologies to Mr Evans
In ongoing efforts to discipline my mind and slow myself down, I’ve turned frequently to these words, from Epictetus:
“And let silence be the general rule or let only what is necessary be said and in few words. And rarely and when the occasion calls we shall say something…”
Epictetus, ENCHIRIDION, XXXIII.
I’ve talked to myself for as long as I can remember and now recognize it not as the most functional method of letting go of useless thoughts (as I had previously thought) but as a way of maki...
