Matthew
Another year, another airport. Well, I tried to be a full time employee for a while and it just didn’t work out. I think I was better off in consulting. The company and I parted ways amicably … as amicably as possible. As in all break ups, there are always
Matthew
Matthew
I'm sitting in Reagan National Airport sipping my Angel Food smoothie from Smoothie King and wondering where the past 3 weeks have gone. I'm getting ready to fly back west to Cali after a long, strange trip. It seems like it was just yesterday that I
Matthew
Today I slept in until 4:30 pm. By the time I woke up, It was dark again. Faced with an odd dilemma I couldn't decide whether I was supposed to take a shower, or not. I've been washing my hands with this new soap with
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Matthew
I found Mr. Bly yanking the shadow out of me. In fact, I thought about throwing the book across the room a few times. However, such is often the case when a powerful author makes their point. To Bly the medium is the message. So, I suspect we won’t
Film
Sometimes a movie becomes special and meaningful to us because we can identify with it and see ourselves in it. The movie Stealing Home is one of those for me. The acting is great and the underlying coming of age story is so simple and human that it just pulls
Matthew
Living is so much more difficult than dying. Letting go is so much easier than hanging on. I’ve become an accidental Buddhist. A friend asked me the other day what I thought happened after death. I told him that I wasn’t sure but that I was looking forward
Thinking
There is a magnificent essay by Schopenhauer in which he asks, how is it that a human being can so participate in the peril or pain of another that without thought, spontaneously, he sacrifices his own life to the other? How can it happen that what we normally think of
Matthew
On Sunday August 18, 1996 (yesterday), my girlfriend and I went to Piedmont Park in Atlanta for a picnic. After lunch we walked around the park and just enjoyed the day. Then, I came upon a group of artists that were having an exhibition. However, this was no ordinary exhibition.
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Matthew
Life has been pretty laid back here. California just seems to do that to everyone. I’m about to finish up at one company and I’m moving soon to work for another. They’ve got some huge, cool project they want me to be on. I feel like I’