autumn twilight
… where the water meets the sea, between the worlds, within the void …autumn twilight
… where the water meets the sea, between the worlds, within the void …things I want to do in the next few months.
There is a very contented kitty purring in my lap right now. She’s tenderizing my chest with one set of claws very lazily as she watches me type. It doesn’t really hurt but I’m trying to get her to stop doing it anyway.
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new desk setup
It’s approaching midnight. I’m sitting in the office comfortably with my keyboard in my lap. I did away with my standard desk. Well, I actually just moved it into the other room out of the way. I’ve been tryng to come up with a way that I could arrange things so I wouldn’t have to have a massive desk taking up a whole bunch of space. I’m still working out some of the kinks of the new setup. I think I’ll be able to stick with it though. It’s much less obtrusive and ugly, more comfortable, and misuses less space.
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The quest for congruence: Part 1
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about congruence lately. About personal congruence yes, but more about congruence with the world around us. As a gay man, A lot of my life is fraught with a certain quality of incongruence, that of my lifestyle as it relates to the heteronormative culture that surrounds me. I, and my community, tend to try and mitigate that incongruence by forming our own culture, and in a lot of ways I am very insulated from the larger world by the gay community. The same thing often happens in the pagan community. In any community that has large idealogical or cultural differences from the norm.
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Changes at Home
So it’s official. The three of us will not be living together as one unit in just a few short months. We haven’t fought, and there doesn’t seem to be any overt anger or resentment going around, at least not right now. Hopefully the three of us are all adult enough to take where we are now and move comfortably towards the future without casting blame or doubts.
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Embracing Organicism
One of the principles that I try very hard to model in my life is that of organicism. The idea is very simple. Do not force artificial boundaries or restrictions upon the development or growth of something. In truth, we all labor under all sorts of artificial boundaries, it’s part of our nature to build systems and environments in which to grow. The balance that I strive to find hinges on the concept of necessity. If I pair my Will, that which I desire to accomplish, with my desire to remain organic then it becomes clear that the only rules I should create are those that are necessary to accomplish my Will.
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