All in The Next Step

Of Quotes & Convos

I recently came across the quote, ‘expectations are premeditated resentments,’ and it immediately gave me pause. Perhaps because it’s such a true statement. Yet how often do we set ourselves up for these disappointments.

Purpose Pending

So says the quotation which greets visitors to my somewhat dormant website, attributed to Anaïs Nin, and oft repeated by would-be philosophers from all walks of life. And that’s really ‘it,’ isn’t it? The main theme that nearly everything in life comes back to. Perception. Reality. And the chasm between them.

The best thoughts are penned at ungodly hours of the night, pre-dawn musings that tend to tumble out of the brain faster than one’s pointer finger can document them in the iPhone’s ‘notes’ app. Or, at least that’s what I tell myself, as yet another night of sleep is interrupted by random ramblings jostling for position in my subconscious.