Full of Beans and Big Ideas

I’ve been living on coffee and soy beans… and chocolate.

I’m never happy with my site’s design. I’m really not. I think I’ll be redesigning it tonight and tweaking things again. I’ll o look around the webs for some inspiration. Minimalism, voice and literature are what is collecting on the threads spanning my thoughts. Leaves become nourishment for this spider.

The days are melting by like the snow on the ground outside that has lingered too long. Spring and then Summer will be around me all too soon. I miss Fall and I’m tired of Winter. Winter tells some nice stories, but she repeats herself far too often.

Spring and Summer are much the same, but at least when they retell their tales they add new twists and never le you stop guessing, even in the laziest passages. I’ll welcome them soon with love, and carry on through them as best I can with what I’ll have.

There are not a lot I need and want in life. I can list them all right here with only a couple omissions.

• Love
  There’s not a single thing that is more important to me than the people I love. Be it Ashley, all my wonderful friends, or my family.
  Ashley is, of course, the most important person to me. She has been the center of my life for quite some time, and has directly and indirectly helped me grow a great deal as a person. I am quite certain I would not be truly happy without her. She is who I can confide in, who I can trust and count on, who I can love completely. She is without a doubt my very best friend.
  I choose to count my family as friends because they have always been there for me. See, many people count family as a separate thing. I know many people with family that they would not choose to be friends with if they were to meet them today. I, however, have a wonderful family filled with great people who have always shown me some of the most admirable traits I have seen in anyone. Thus fall into the category of both Family and Friends.
  In turn I also consider my friends to be family. The bonds should really not be any different in my mind. Blood is all that really separates them. Afterall, the only family that matters is the one you choose.
• Art
  Art is an essential element of my life. Music, literature, spoken word, visual arts, anything falling into the realm of art that really means something to me has a profound effect on my happiness. I wouldn’t feel complete without music playing, a book to read, a landscape to see or a story to hear.
  My life has been shaped the most often by art. I could never have become who I am today without the many inspirations and teachings that art has given me. My sense of uniqueness is amplified by these influences greatly. By knowing so much of how others think and feel, I am greater able to know my own inner workings. My sense of empathy, my views of love, all of it has grown from the different views I have experienced, adopted or discarded.
• Communication
  Of course communication is essential for each and every person. I need to be connected with my friends, and I also have a desire to be heard by others and also hear their stories.
  Lives interest me. From the lives I am involved in directly (friends and family), to the ones I may never touch, they all have meaning to me. I love hearing positive stories of life, love, courage and truth. At the same time I always seek to be aware of the larger issues that impact our lives.
  I want to help others as I can. I at once want to help others to see things the way I do, but I’d also hate to force my views upon them. That is why I wish to develop my voice as much as I can. As I find my knowledge become more concrete I know I need to find the proper ways to express these truths. If I don’t try to improve the world, at least in some small way, I will have failed in my goals for my life.
• Physical Health
  Food, sleep, cleanliness and exercise. I get each in amounts that allow me to live the best I can. I walk as much as I can, and I do try to eat healthily and heartily. I sleep when I can and try to get adequate amounts. I stay clean. I rarely get sick, and never seriously.

Nothing else matters. Give me a cabin in the woods, my friends, music, books and the net and I’ll live happily for the rest of eternity. To me capitalism and empires are huge lies. The simple things about life are what matter. The rest is just control and bullshit. We don’t need expensive cars, clothes, food, homes, and all the other things that society feels the need for us to consume. We should not be senseless fires burning up all we touch like that. We need community and art, food, and homes. These things don’t have to cost anything other than empathy and effort. We have been lied to. The price paid, of humanity, knowledge, freedom, and empathy are never to be given up for things we can create easily. It’s time to take back our lives and rebuild peace.

I scored 80¾% on the classic 400 Point Purity Test!

Take the test here!

It seems that I am very pure. Isn’t that wonderful? Being a saviour and all means I’ve gotta be, right?