Perspective

Inspired by the Reasons For Hope chapter in Rebuild by Graham Boyd and Jack Reardon

Stuck in this dance with a gloomy monster

It mocks my existence imitating me

Matching me perfectly like an imposter

Studying with horror I want to be free

There is a ruckus in this dreadful world

My comrades have broken free from their bonds

Demons follow them as if they were hurled

I ran seeing how these terrors respond

We find a bright light stronger than anything

Entering it we find a vast expanse

Looking at this new fire gives me a sting

The specter so small I forget to glance

The universe is larger than I knew

No fear for my foe knowing what is true

Between Dionysus and Themis

Inspired by the Temperance chapter of The Pursuit of Happiness by Jeffrey Rosen

Dionysus offers me all that pleasures
Much wine and food that bring me to madness
I’m joyful that he gifts me these treasures
In the end though all I feel is sadness

In comes Themis to save me from despair
She teaches me that I desire bad things
That what fills gluttony runs like a hare
I learn to enjoy all that the world brings

Themis says to see her again to climb
Though it’s hard this is where I’m made happy
Everything of value is worth my time
Hades will meet me so I’ll be snappy

Before I ran away from the god of death
Now I find myself lucky out of breath

Quote of the day December 30, 2025

 "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." - Farrah Gray

Books I've read in 2025

Books I've read in 2025

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

A Century of Chess: Book I: 1900-1909 by Sam Kahn

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Robert's Rules of Order

Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership, and You by Graham Boyd and Jack Reardon

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Star Trek Voyager Caretaker by L.A. Graf

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Star Trek Voyager The Murdered Sun by Christie Golden

Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer

Star Trek Voyager The Escape by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Das Kapital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx

Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday

Breaking Through Power by Ralph Nader

Quote of The Day December 23, 2025

 "Everyone thinks of changing the world. But no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

Quote of The Day December 16, 2025

 “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” - Confucius

Quote of the day October 28, 2025

"The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies, not to support false actions!" - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn