I've been laying tiles in our bedroom. For what it's worth I enjoyed the work even though writing about the very dark side can take a lot out of you. Is there a literal connotation? Ask me when I'm dead. I tend to dwell on dark sides and found it cathartic to imagine such a fate for this wicked character, so it was uplifting for me! And funny but I obviously like dark humor. The picture reminded me of something funny many years ago I had a boyfriend who was really into home improvements. One day I came back from somewhere and noticed the house looked so much cleaner. I couldn't figure out why and he asked me to guess. I went through a long list had he cleaned the floors or repainted something or wiped down the trim? No no and no. I gave up and finally he told me. "I noticed the covers over all the electrical sockets and lights were really old and worn so I replaced all of them." Subconscious plays a part. Also remember that likes are less likely to be given when one writes about darker subject matter, as that is not the true reaction to reading about death and destruction say. In those cases a like is given in support of the author, but in general I get more likes for positive themed, funny or explanatory content than I do for dystopias or describing the latest train wreck of policy...
I changed out all the switches, sockets and covers here too. It is surprising to see how much that changes the look. I built out the basement long ago. The upstairs until recently looked almost exactly as it did in 2003, except more run down. It is like a whole new house today.
As for the post, it wasn't just the lack of likes and comments, it was how that lit up my existing concern about the imagery, which is not the sort of thing I have ever written about or care to expand on. But then a few positive comments were posted, and now I'm dreaming something of a tour Tellar takes through our elite.
Sage Hana goes on all sorts of fictional forays and I enjoy them! It's not everyone's cup of tea but I don't overthink it or I will get drowned out and lose my own voice. I usually go with how I'm feeling or some article that caught my eye more than usual, or something important that I saw very little reported about. Then I dig into some raw data or make extrapolations to add to it, or go into a meandering story and look over here there's some funny memes and wow that guy I follow has a shocking headline and look at all these bananas! I get encouragement regarding almost everything I write, but it is often different people (the meme folks are not the same who get absorbed in storytime with Amy or my more raw data posts). On my other newsletter I write about random fruits and vegetables we harvest and just share songs. I might put up my own post about putting tile on the floor today had to move out the bed which we hadn't wanted to do. Some people have a very clear voice that goes for one niche...I'm more a jack of all trades type. I'm just happy to have feedback I had so long without any...
I didn't know you had another newsletter. I'd be curious about what sort of tile is installed on a floor in residential Thailand. I do imagine this substack encompassing all that from the fruits and veggies, tilework, to takedowns of the latest stupid thing, to fiction about Phauche' and even a dab of poetry. Thanks for the feedback. Your meme's posts are some of the best around.
Your lovely Mea Culpa had me turn the clock back and read your story to enable me understand the mea culpa and to vote.
And as has been made very clear in the last couple of years, although it has had more than enough evidence of its truth throughout time, the phrase 'fact is stranger than fiction' comes to mind.
Fiction that is 'true to the energy of life' is often more important than non-fiction. It allows for creativity to come up from outside or beyond mere thinking, which is mostly limited to logic and the constraints of our limited mind.
Now, has your story provided me with a solution to our current situation? If only it had. Although it may spark from the unconscious something. Imagination is so much more powerful than regurgitation because when free it has the ability to tap into the energy of Spirit or God, or whatever other descriptor we have for that which is beyond our minds' and bodies' ability to understand.
Thank you for expressing and sharing your heart and humility. That energy does change the world and is an act of doing something to fix the mess. One heart at a time.
I think fiction has tremendous power to reorient the mind, in some ways more effectively than fact and reality. Consider the covid narrative, which was almost entirely fictional, and how much more power that had in reorienting life in America than dry facts about pathogens. We humans on the whole are more emotional than reasonable and logical, and I have suggested many times many places, facts are important in tearing down the covid narrative, and the narrative of modern medicine, but a new narrative is more important.
Also the thing our elite despise more than anything is to be made a mockery of.
Hello, William. Have you listened to Jordan Peterson? He is interesting. Often he talks about fiction being more true than reporting. In a small synchronicity I heard him reiterate that today in a discussion about the roots of Western culture and the hard to define line between the Bible as a factual record of measurable events or a partially fictional record of the truth of spiritual events. That's my paraphrase.
This is just me, but I stopped reading after I realized it was fiction. The reality of our situation is already fantastical: it seems to be gilding the lily to make it fictional. I'm much more interested in your real-life efforts to circumnavigate the fuckery.
How many times have I said the last six years, you can't make this shit up?
I wasn't trying to gild the lily as much as savage it. But note taken. There will be more fiction, which you are free to ignore. There will be plenty other "real-life efforts to circumnavigate the fuckery."
I've been laying tiles in our bedroom. For what it's worth I enjoyed the work even though writing about the very dark side can take a lot out of you. Is there a literal connotation? Ask me when I'm dead. I tend to dwell on dark sides and found it cathartic to imagine such a fate for this wicked character, so it was uplifting for me! And funny but I obviously like dark humor. The picture reminded me of something funny many years ago I had a boyfriend who was really into home improvements. One day I came back from somewhere and noticed the house looked so much cleaner. I couldn't figure out why and he asked me to guess. I went through a long list had he cleaned the floors or repainted something or wiped down the trim? No no and no. I gave up and finally he told me. "I noticed the covers over all the electrical sockets and lights were really old and worn so I replaced all of them." Subconscious plays a part. Also remember that likes are less likely to be given when one writes about darker subject matter, as that is not the true reaction to reading about death and destruction say. In those cases a like is given in support of the author, but in general I get more likes for positive themed, funny or explanatory content than I do for dystopias or describing the latest train wreck of policy...
I changed out all the switches, sockets and covers here too. It is surprising to see how much that changes the look. I built out the basement long ago. The upstairs until recently looked almost exactly as it did in 2003, except more run down. It is like a whole new house today.
As for the post, it wasn't just the lack of likes and comments, it was how that lit up my existing concern about the imagery, which is not the sort of thing I have ever written about or care to expand on. But then a few positive comments were posted, and now I'm dreaming something of a tour Tellar takes through our elite.
Sage Hana goes on all sorts of fictional forays and I enjoy them! It's not everyone's cup of tea but I don't overthink it or I will get drowned out and lose my own voice. I usually go with how I'm feeling or some article that caught my eye more than usual, or something important that I saw very little reported about. Then I dig into some raw data or make extrapolations to add to it, or go into a meandering story and look over here there's some funny memes and wow that guy I follow has a shocking headline and look at all these bananas! I get encouragement regarding almost everything I write, but it is often different people (the meme folks are not the same who get absorbed in storytime with Amy or my more raw data posts). On my other newsletter I write about random fruits and vegetables we harvest and just share songs. I might put up my own post about putting tile on the floor today had to move out the bed which we hadn't wanted to do. Some people have a very clear voice that goes for one niche...I'm more a jack of all trades type. I'm just happy to have feedback I had so long without any...
I didn't know you had another newsletter. I'd be curious about what sort of tile is installed on a floor in residential Thailand. I do imagine this substack encompassing all that from the fruits and veggies, tilework, to takedowns of the latest stupid thing, to fiction about Phauche' and even a dab of poetry. Thanks for the feedback. Your meme's posts are some of the best around.
Your lovely Mea Culpa had me turn the clock back and read your story to enable me understand the mea culpa and to vote.
And as has been made very clear in the last couple of years, although it has had more than enough evidence of its truth throughout time, the phrase 'fact is stranger than fiction' comes to mind.
Fiction that is 'true to the energy of life' is often more important than non-fiction. It allows for creativity to come up from outside or beyond mere thinking, which is mostly limited to logic and the constraints of our limited mind.
Now, has your story provided me with a solution to our current situation? If only it had. Although it may spark from the unconscious something. Imagination is so much more powerful than regurgitation because when free it has the ability to tap into the energy of Spirit or God, or whatever other descriptor we have for that which is beyond our minds' and bodies' ability to understand.
Thank you for expressing and sharing your heart and humility. That energy does change the world and is an act of doing something to fix the mess. One heart at a time.
Thanks Guy,
I think fiction has tremendous power to reorient the mind, in some ways more effectively than fact and reality. Consider the covid narrative, which was almost entirely fictional, and how much more power that had in reorienting life in America than dry facts about pathogens. We humans on the whole are more emotional than reasonable and logical, and I have suggested many times many places, facts are important in tearing down the covid narrative, and the narrative of modern medicine, but a new narrative is more important.
Also the thing our elite despise more than anything is to be made a mockery of.
Hello, William. Have you listened to Jordan Peterson? He is interesting. Often he talks about fiction being more true than reporting. In a small synchronicity I heard him reiterate that today in a discussion about the roots of Western culture and the hard to define line between the Bible as a factual record of measurable events or a partially fictional record of the truth of spiritual events. That's my paraphrase.
The discussion on fiction starts here.
https://youtu.be/4Modzh94MVw?t=2469
You can start at the beginning here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Modzh94MVw
I have very much enjoyed Jordan Peterson's talks. I will check this out.
This is just me, but I stopped reading after I realized it was fiction. The reality of our situation is already fantastical: it seems to be gilding the lily to make it fictional. I'm much more interested in your real-life efforts to circumnavigate the fuckery.
How many times have I said the last six years, you can't make this shit up?
I wasn't trying to gild the lily as much as savage it. But note taken. There will be more fiction, which you are free to ignore. There will be plenty other "real-life efforts to circumnavigate the fuckery."