Sample size. What is the sample size of your population? It is usually pretty small, and, although we must use it to the best of our ability to determine certain life things, it cannot describe the majority. It does so ever more poorly the more we try to force it as the global explanatory device. It begins to make sense how other people can think in so many different ways. Their environments are different. Experiences are different. Foods, habits, friends, […]
This is one of those words that, when first heard, suggests a place of refuge, retreat, and safety, but immediately we begin to dig into the complexity of it as being something more. My life at home is physically cold. I live in an actual near-cave, so that probably has a lot to do with that, but it is shelter. It can get almost warm on the most brutal of days, but I’m never looking in the window’s reflection without […]
To look back over a short interval of time suggests something similar to an eternity has past. What madness it this I wonder? The time has indeed gone quickly on tour, but to feel as though the beginning was years ago and coupling that with the rapidity of the journey, some strange conflicts of perception permeate the mind’s connections to reality. We are speeding ever more into the next moments. Inside these moments we develop expectations, hopes, fulfillments of what […]
Having been partitioned from the whole mass of all potential – this being not an absolute but a relevant trajectory of focussed efforts – I have known before community. Once again I know the essence and physical boundaries of a ‘new’ community. It is a brotherhood – a band-hood. We move through the motions of learning behavioral patterns, intentions, skills, language, and proximities as we work our way across the country to perform our talents and dream-minded hopes of music […]
Our path can stream so many different alternatives and at any point at zero. That means in any instance any number of things can come about. Five months ago I sat down and began the process to work out the details of my life. Since then it’s been one emotive spinning turbulent bubbling motion that forced all possibilities out into the open. Well, most possibilities out. Some are too deep, or too expressive, or too unthought of to be known […]
There comes a time when the wait represents the weight. Heavy upon our shoulders we carry uncertainty and that always expanding principal of the unknowns in all their possible outcomes. Perhaps, just like that, as if it were a walk up a hill, the journey enters a clearing. This place where it opens up, the burden set for the legs to know and the lungs to supply has been brought back to a balanced and comfortable state. That I suppose […]
