Let Them Be https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May29_Post.mp3 One common complaint from kids is: “I can do it!” This is a necessary instinct. Kids can’t become players unless they are productive. And a drive to do it alone is necessary to be productive. At every point in somebody’s life, they need to realize it’s […]
Self Sabotaging Magic
Circus Theory In the circus, they have trapeze artists whose job it is to flip around up in the air, so people can watch this and be entertained. But to maximize the enjoyment of these tricks, they must provide a safety net for the trapeze artists. Without a safety net, the trapeze artists […]
Rat Dragon Apocalypse
Gaming Tournament There’s this pretty cool hobby shop in my neighborhood. Most of the time this is a normal place, selling normal hobby type things to normal people. But every couple of months they have these really intense underground tournaments. Where they try and make this as absolutely as possible. Trip […]
The Magic Pendant
Shoe Salesman I have a friend who works in a shoe store. He’s worked there for over ten years. When he started he thought it would only be a part time job. A lot of big bookstores are closing. For obvious reasons. A lot of retail is in trouble. But bookstores even more so […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]
Revenge Against Evil
Not So Fast I’ve a friend of a friend who started working at a very large very powerful company about 10 years ago. After about a year of working there he found out that this very large and very powerful company was engaged in very terrible activities. They were exploiting people. They were killing […]
Musical Arts And Prosperity
Street Guitarist Occasionally I’ll see this guy playing guitar, acoustic guitar on the street. This is remarkable not because of the music that he plays, he’s remarkable because he always has his guitar case lying open and it is always filled with money. Not just singles but fives and tens and hundreds. I’ve always […]
Angel of Peace
Bad Mood Couple of nights ago I was in a fairly foul mood. I didn’t know why and I wasn’t really interested in finding out why. I wanted to ignore my problems by focusing on something else or what to my local bar. I didn’t even plan on talking to anybody. I just sat […]
Metaphysical Librarian
Spiritual Bookstore Couple weeks ago I went downtown to check out this new age spiritual bookstore. I walked inside and had a lot of different crystals a lot of books on magic spells a lot of books on spirituality. There was this interesting woman reading a book. There was something about her that was […]
Out Of Calibration
What’s That Noise? A few days ago I was out driving around and I was continually getting bothered by this strange clunking sound in my engine. I drove past this auto repair shop and so I pulled and finally deciding to see what was wrong. I was kind of worried because I don’t know […]