i don't think of anything in particular while i'm brushing my teeth. i'm just brushing my teeth, and that's what i'm doing.

Sometimes I have to read instructions over and over before my brain can decode the information. Like if I'm baking, I will read just one step of the instructions, then set them down, and as I'm setting them down, I think, "Wait...", then immediately pick them up and read them again.

I have no interest in being ironic. I have no interest in being clever. I have no interest in being cynical.

On BART, going into San Francisco. There is a girl, early twenties, sitting across from me on the ground, with a pug puppy that's very rambunctious. She has tattoos on her hands. She's wearing a pink Thrasher hoodie, with sparkly letters. A man walks up, and bends down to pet the dog…

If there is something you don't want to do, don't try to get yourself to want to do it, just acknowledge that you don't want to do it, and do it anyway.

Can you be in-the-moment with a moment that happened 25 years ago?

I caught an updraft earlier - like when a speck of dust is falling, then suddenly rises up again. My mood was elevated briefly, then, just as mysteriously as it rose, it fell again…

JOURNAL - AUGUST, 1998 :: things just got real slow with work. busy, busy, then all of a sudden... what happened? where did everyone go? how did i not see it coming?

I was driving behind a car the other day that was going really slow, and it had a bumper sticker that said: "All Who Wander Are Not Lost". I thought to myself…

There's a story that goes with this photo, but it's not as interesting as the photo.

MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS :: Intriguing is spelled all wrong: the ''u' doesn't make sense where it is.

JOURNAL - MAY 30, 2016 :: Going to 'church' could be: hiking, meditating, volunteering at a shelter…

When we moved to Davis in 1968, my parents told us we would be renting a house until the one we were buying was finished being built…

Uh-oh. It's 1:27 AM. I thought I had a post ready to go, but I don't. I like this photo though, so I'll start with that. It was taken with slide film. I think I'm the kid on the left, but I'm not positive. 

To commemorate the return to the gold standard by the Netherlands & Great Britain on this day in 1925, here is some comedy gold for your enjoyment…

it's easy to get lost. to abandon yourself unintentionally.

JUNIOR HIGH - I remember Mr. Carey telling the class that Mark Spartz died. He had been sick, had missed some school, and then we were told that he died. It didn't make any sense.

JUNE 20, 2011. Woke up totally annoyed and hungry and dwelling on everything that needs to get fixed about my life. Things that I didn't even know were wrong.

APRIL 18, 2016. Lufthansa, Flight 455. Three hours into a ten hour flight to Switzerland. First to Frankfurt, then Geneva. Headed to Visions du Réel Film Festival in Nyon for the premier of 'The Nine'.