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Oversubscribed

My writing and my personal life have suffered of late, and that’s because work is dominating my time. Rather, I’m letting it dominate my time. And that’s not a good thing. Due to economic slowdown, I’ve been capped at 40hrs/wk on the clock at work, and overtime has to be approved or justified. Well, since …

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Posted byShawnMarch 21, 2021March 21, 2021Posted inJournalTags: contractor, desire, goals, hobby, passion, time, work

Hungry Like the “e” in Time

In the last two hours of my day, I finally come home and sit down in my apartment, looking at all the trap around me: the projects unfinished; the media unconsumed; the radios unpowered; the music gear untouched. And I wonder what to do tonight to make it alright. But there’s only these two hours …

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Posted byShawnJune 13, 2018Posted inJournalTags: communication, desire, hobbies, time

Pandimensional

Social media has perverted and supplanted my ability to express myself artistically, literarily, philosophically, poetically. The things I used to say, things I want to say from the back of my soul — in the front of my mind is now installed a filter, a tuned circuit to impedance match and pipe that natural, raw …

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Posted byShawnDecember 27, 2017Posted inJournalTags: creativity, desire, Internet, media

Windcatcher and Sad Echo

8/6/96 10:30pm ah, god I feel like I’m pushing against the air empty hands, hollow, and holding back the wind just slips through and blows past me, leaving me behind. trying too hard trying to run so fast, I thought I was the breeze itself hoping at least to maybe feel the wind’s resistance hoping …

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Posted byShawnJanuary 5, 2017Posted inPoetryTags: desire, emptiness, poem

Blame

“You are responsible for your own experience.” From what I’ve been told, this statement is posted at the front gate of any Burning Man event. It is supposed to be an admonition to seize your own destiny and craft the kind of life you want to lead. To me, it feels like an after-the-fact, regret-filled …

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Posted byShawnNovember 26, 2011Posted inJournalTags: desire, experience, goal, life1 Comment on Blame

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