Chubmeister 5000

This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing things.

Anton Chekhov once observed that the worst thing life can do to human beings is to inflict humiliation. Nothing, nothing, nothing in the world can destroy the soul as much as outright humiliation. Every other infliction can eventually be withstood or overcome, but not humiliation. Humiliation lingers in the mind, the heart, the veins, the arteries... See more

This is one of many lessons I’ve learned through birding. It’s a humbling activity, where you can go from being an expert to an amateur just by crossing a few state lines. You have to get comfortable with the not-knowing.

Decisiveness really is an art. Knowing when to stay and when to leave is an art.

It cannot be said that there must be an answer. Neither can we say that there is no answer. All we can say is that we want to know, because being in and of the world is a sticky question. Sometimes the stickiness of the world is very sweet; it is like honey on the razor’s edge. You lick the blade and “Oh! how very sweet it is!” Then there is the... See more

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.

“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”

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Zora Neale Hurston,

Their Eyes Were Watching God

I am idealistic, but not a lunatic. If this is not the world I am spending my days moving towards, then I have no desire to be here. Indeed, to stay on our current course is lunacy.