A journal of no very wide circulation...

Assert your own existence…

I’m surrounded by printed and digitally broadcast information.  Archives and reruns, redundant and opiate, drawing me in.  Stacks of books with pleasing colors on their covers, fancy fonts, compelling blurbs…all full of other peoples’ ideas.  

Thoughts are more easily pondered than conveyed.  You’ve got to push to communicate.  Work and wine make you tired.  Other human beings demand attention and validation.  

Television and music distract us from our calling.  Pondering the expressed thoughts of others is almost as fulfilling as expressing thoughts yourself.  It certainly requires less work.  

Don’t give in.  You need to take the stage…command the stage…crowd the stage…your performance is all you have.  Make it count.  Make it meaningful.  Assert your own existence.