Mentalechoes

It struck me again today as I was sitting in a management meeting, listening to two guys go off at each other, that working for someone else is largely a waste of time. I mean lets face it, someone else is making the money off my blood sweat, and swearing (I never shed tears about [...]

It is complete now. Two ends of time are neatly tied…
– Andy Priebo, “Tomorrow Wendy”.
I came full circle today. A year ago it started, today it ended. I could talk about all the reasons why, but in the end, what does it matter who’s right and who’s wrong when we both lose everything we had [...]

I found a definition of a workaholic today that scared me.
A workaholic works or keeps busy with activity compulsively and leaves little or no time to be alone and quiet. Therefore, we usually don’t know who we are and what we really feel and want. Work and activity are the primary focuses in our [...]

For the last couple of days I have been watching a mum and dad pair of birds building a nest in the bough of a tree just outside my office window. This is the second time they’ve been at this because the first little happy nest got decimated in a force 9 storm that tore [...]

Today is the two year anniversary of my friends death. It’s difficult for me to come to terms with the time that’s past since he left. It seems such a long time and short time all at once. There are times when I can almost imagine him still being here, and other times when I [...]

I got some news this morning that brought back a lot of painful memories that I thought I had let go of. A good friend of mine experienced an enormous tragedy Saturday morning, one which I have seen before. I couldn’t believe that I would ever live to hear that same tragedy happen again to [...]

For those of you that have been here before, you might be wondering what looks different about the site from last time you looked. You might see that it looks very uncluttered right now, as in it’s not bogged down with a whole of lot of hard written entries over the last few months. In [...]