Quantum of Solace: The Undertow

Remorse, regret, fear and ruin – melancholy made manifest, devourers of provident hope.

Romance, lust, joy and aspiration – a heart unbound, rampant and rife.

Love and grief, imbuing a certain narcissism, a subjective self reflection looked upon awkwardly by peers unable to empathise with the grievers lament, or the lovers bliss.

An oddity, is such a narcissism. Woe’d, [...]

The Quantum of Solace – Riding the Spectrum of Love and Loss

 Hi there internet. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Apparently I’m trying this whole ‘put a bunch of scattered ideas and notions into something resembling coherency’ thing again and here’s what came out first. Enjoy. Or don’t. It’s your screentime douchebag – do what you want with it.

 

The opposite of love has never been hate.

Once upon [...]

Reason

The reasoned mind remains so at a whim, reason itself perched upon a treacherous mountain of sand, it’s comfort an untruth, a security bought at the cost of instinct, of a myriad of conveniently manipulated falsehoods.

The seeds of madness are not sown in carefully cultivated fields of righteous order as our epoch has come to believe, [...]

You, Me, Us, This.

RT @tealou: New Blog Post on tealou.com.au: On “negativity” and “overshare”. http://bit.ly/ibm5eb
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Go read that first. My tripe could easily put you off, so don’t go wasting time on my rot if yours is scarce.

Righto, done? Good stuff, now, as I was saying..

I have this weird aesthetic, and get a brain-nourishing sense of satisfaction at [...]

RIP Grandma

One of the more interesting people I follow on “The Twitter” posted a piece today about Euthanasia, the story and some thoughts around her changed position on the topic. I’ve included an excerpt that summarizes the post, which in many ways, echoes my own viewso and reasoning on the topic:

I don’t mind if people want to [...]