wanderlust

Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.

nayyirah waved

There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the supercomputer Deep Thought is built by a race of hyper-intelligent alien beings to determine the answer to “life, the universe, and everything.” Deep Thought determines that the answer is, somewhat anticlimactically, ’42’. It sounds like a joke, but is there more to this answer? Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd and knew a heck of a lot about programming language and coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as ‘whatever you want it to be.’ In ASCll language, the most basic computer software, ’42’ is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, Deep Thought, was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would. 42 = ‘anything you want it to be.’ Genius.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

krishnamurti

Let us sprawl over the planet like snow angels sheltering black fields, turkey vultures lifting on the thermals. When no one asks for our opinion, surveying our thin skin, white hair, our age, let our irrelevance make us risky. Let us be rowdy with reason or without.

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