Everyone seemed grumpy and short tempered this week. I have a hard time with confrontation but I had to use it to push back a little bit. There was heat, and burn, and smoke, and scowl, as in coal.

Expectations are infectious, I find myself jumping in the pit of fire and thinking I will not get burned. Perhaps you won’t, but there are those instants when you ask yourself why you’re there and why it is better. Is it better?

Changing you mind is not a bad thing. You have to listen and be open. Intuition will betray you more often than not. Get messy.

Sadness=negation of beauty.

8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 283 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations –Pulvis et umbra sumus.

It feels like we’re heading to this place where silencing the truth will actually set you free. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: people are afraid their truths could be outed.

Puppets cannot experience ecstasy without having experienced despair beforehand. Same with us.

Is it wrong to find gratification to see someone’s arrogance collapse? Is is spiteful? It might be natural, but it is toxic. It’s best not to dwell on it and let go.-

There is a fair amount of pride in each act of self-renunciation. There’s nothing discrete or considerate about it. By renouncing to yourself you’re condemning other people’s pleasures.
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Alexander’s new single “A Woman’s Right to Choose” comes out on New Pangea on Novemeber 25th.

I have an obtuse opinion on detachment and dependency. None win, they are permanently nemesis.