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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • My hopes

    I hope that anyone reading this, now or any day in the future, has a beautiful, though imperfect, day. Look for ways to make your day as beautiful as possible. Compliment people that you see. Eat a meal that you cherish. Read a book that you love. Create something that you are proud of.

  • Absent Imperfections

    While I can’t completely say that today was perfect, there really aren’t any imperfections that I noticed. The weather was nice. The traffic wasn’t bad. I didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped to, but I accomplished a pretty good amount. Sometimes it’s good to have a day without significant wins or losses. Today…

  • fears

    I spent a lot of time in heavy traffic today, which brought the idea of fear to my mind. Heavy traffic isn’t something that causes a lot of fear for me, but it does cause some. But I’ve been realizing lately, as I’ve worked on other aspects of myself, that almost all fears are completely…

  • Imperfect Progress

    I made an offhand comment earlier tonight which I think might become the subject of a book. In a conversation about quitting smoking, which I have succeeded at 4 or 5 times this year already, someone was talking about how they had done well for a while and then backslid. I told them that I…

  • An interesting quote

    I got this from Tim Ferriss’s facebook page, but it’s probably on his other social media as well. “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― ​James Baldwin I never really…

  • Finding beauty that you had forgotten

    It can be easy to forget things sometimes. Lately, the weather has been cool enough to enjoy being outside and warm enough to be barefoot all day long. And that makes it so much easier for me to have an absolutely beautiful day.

  • Ignoring the imperfection within the beauty

    While it is important to appreciate and understand both beauty and imperfection, many of us, especially myself, can sometimes get too caught up in the imperfections to notice the beauty. Today has been one of those days until I just started writing a few moments ago. I couldn’t say that any particular thing was wrong…

  • Seek the beauty within imperfection

    Yesterday I mentioned that muses aren’t real. It occurs to me that it might be useful to explain that a little more thoroughly. Writer’s block is a commonly used term even though it’s less than a hundred years old. We have romanticized all forms of artistic creation to the extent that it is more harmful…

  • Getting back to work

    Well, the advantage of not having an actual audience is that no one minds if I take a break, even if it’s a long break. The short version is that life has been imperfect. The long version is, well, long, and not really important. It’s time to get back to work. It may take a…

  • Thoughtless imperfections. . .

    I had another day that involved waking up at 5 am against my will. The sunrise was beautiful. What actually kept me awake was the moon being lined up next to a planet or star so that when I glanced out of my window, there appeared to be fairly creepy silver eyes squinting at me.…

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