Sky, absent the sun
The stars are comforting me
Familiar friends
Category: Personal Reflections
Lessons learned about life; pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned through pain, failure and honest reflection
Sunlight
Forcing upon skin
The beauty of cloud-free skies
Sometimes there is fire
Crossroads
Where can we go now?
Once the dreams are accomplished
Yet there’s much more life
Not quite
“Almost” escaping
Leaving my lips far too fast
Birthing new regrets
Priorities
An empty focus
Driving towards reflexive goals
Neglecting one’s soul
Progress
Daring to speak words,
Empowerment of progress.
Seeking real change.
Thinking About The Beauty-Industrial-Complex
Consider: discontent with self-image feeds huge profits to the billion dollar beauty-industrial-complex, and significant misery to millions. We in the business world talk at great lengths about value-add. The only way I see “value-add” by this sector requires a very short-term focus.
I wonder if there’s a place for the beauty businesses in a world of high-functioning people with great self-esteem. So I think of many women who use these products without demonstrating any lack of self-confidence. Are they simply hiding a deeper misery, or might there be something deeper that I simply cannot see. Probably the later. Probably.
We should consider who we can extract the more egregious agony from this sector while keeping the (presumed?) benefits. So much to meditate upon.
Flu Haiku
Germs descended here
Embattled body withers
May healing soon come
Computer Dreaming
Stumbled upon this thing on Amazon: i-XL Mediaworkstation (4 x NVIDIA GTX Titan X). It doesn’t look that dramatic, but the specs are pretty incredible. With a price tag of $32k, it’s not for the faint of wallet.
History beckons
Upon windy voice,
Echoes of history call;
Resist cyclic doom.