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Spinning Happiness
I did some good work this week. First I spun some loops and dazzled the bedazzled. Then I mixed some truth with couth and triangulated the uncoangular. Then I soothed some savage and orchestrated an opus. In between I seethed … Continue reading
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Happy to be culpable
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” The quote above is most commonly attributed to Honoré de Balzac, though it is apparently simplified (from his original words) to be more provocative. As is my wont, and because it feels … Continue reading
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Happiness: Moving on…
Untempered belief easily becomes brutish exploitation in the hands of those with power. Untempered belief may come from indoctrination, ego gratification, fear, groupthink, apathy, inattentiveness, or a combination of these and perhaps other factors I have not realized. So how … Continue reading
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Disinterested Happiness
There are not very many people alive today who have experienced impartial hardship on a global or (at least in America) on a national scale. We have become fat and lazy and complacent and entitled and pretentious and overconfident; as … Continue reading
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DysHappiness
This week has been disturbing. I considered stopping at that: This week has been disturbing. My surroundings have felt: Dystopian Disjointed Dysfunctional Distant I have felt: Discomfortable Disoriented Disordered Displaced It is not that we shouldn’t feel the way that … Continue reading
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