Category: Walking Away
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The Loneliness of the Unaligned
I lost a friend over a protest I did not attend. Not because I mocked the cause. Not because I stood on the other side of the street with a rival sign. I simply would not go. I will not outsource my conscience to a crowd, even a righteous-feeling one. The invitation was not really…
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Cultivating Connection: Building Spaces for the ‘Other’
There have been many times in my life when I felt off—like the “other” in the room. It showed up in social settings, and it showed up in family ones too. I was simply different, and of course the old fan favorite: weird. I never knew what to do with that growing up. Adulthood has…
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Tao, robotic sheep, and feminism
It has been almost a year, and it’s been quite a year. Mostly health issues took priority, but I’m finally starting to settle in a bit and even have some material to share, oddly enough. The first topic is the digital waifu revolution and feminism. As I’m sure you, dear reader, are aware, Grok now…
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Lonely at the top?
I was listening to a podcast the other day talking about the process of leveling up your life. Real AF is the podcast in question. The host noted two things, that the process of becoming the 2.0 version of yourself if you will leaves you in a middle ground as your old friends leave and…
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Books and faces
Or when it’s healthy to put the politics down… I recently deactivated my personal Facebook account, largely for two reasons. 1) the politics are growing too extreme in my circle of friends that I fear what they might do with a centrist like me and 2) it’s just time to move on and open up…
The Half-assed Taoist 