Archive for the 'life' Category

I Have Not Slept in Two Days

Posted by Brendan on February 23rd, 2008 filed in BAH, dreams, life, meta

It’s 5:30 AM, the second night in a row without any sleep. I finally gave up tossing and turning and decided to let the chip[s fall where they may. I had a busy weekend planned but I’m not sure if that’s going to happen now. Depends on whether I get some sleep [...]

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Upside Down

Posted by Brendan on February 15th, 2008 filed in life, meta, parenting

[M]y son, who in addition to being this amazing, rambunctious little person, is allowing me to fit my own life better into a context of impermanent things, invest myself in his just started as opposed to my half-run race. But beyond all those organized thoughts I find fatherhood simply a mystery, a very concrete one [...]

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Thanksgiving 2007

Posted by Brendan on November 26th, 2007 filed in life, parenting, photoblog

Just so y’all don’t think I’m going to off myself, here are some of the pictures that keep me going. And yes, I’ll feel better in another day or so. Go read my beer blog at Booman for more proof that I’m not a hop, skip, and jump away from catastrophe.
Great times with Sam [...]

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Well Whaddya Know!

Posted by Brendan on October 24th, 2007 filed in family, life, meta

I think we may be getting to the end of the saga surrounding my sister, who sent me an email this morning. As regular readers may remember, my parents, especially my father, have been pushing me to make-up with my sister, and allow her into my house without an apology for previous egregious behavior. [...]

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A Resolution

Posted by Brendan on October 18th, 2007 filed in life, meta, random

A post or two ago I went on about the stress headache.
I am really happy to say that the static with my housemate seems to be, for the moment, resolved, and in a totally constructive way.
I know that in person and on line I can come across as a high stress person with a hair [...]

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The Shitz

Posted by Brendan on October 8th, 2007 filed in bluegrass, life, meta, movies

I had an incredibly busy weekend, and I am very happy that I have Columbus Day off to recuperate.
Where to start? On Thursday, as part of Domestic Violence Month, I had to work a fundraiser in Chestnut Hill from 5:00-8:00 PM, after which I headed up to Doylestown where Pete Wroblewski throws a bluegrass [...]

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Biblical

Posted by Brendan on October 5th, 2007 filed in family, life, meta

It simply doesn’t stop when it comes to the debate over my sister.
If you’ve dropped by comments, you probably saw my father objecting to my two pieces about the the topic.
Well there I was assuming we had been having a private conversation about a delicate family matter and there it is plastered all over the [...]

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Boundaries

Posted by Brendan on September 28th, 2007 filed in life, meta, parenting

My sister and I haven’t really spoken since March 2005. She was visiting Philadelphia around the same time Sam was paying a visit, while Melissa and I were still together. I was still unemployed for the most part, accepting any temp job that came my way. As it happened, I was working [...]

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Hope 2

Posted by Brendan on August 9th, 2007 filed in life, meta

Adding to my point about my lack of hope and faith, I’m reminded of a quote by Alan Watts, which I’ll paraphrase here:
Hope is that which allows you to put off indefinitely what you should be doing today.
I do not hope, for example, that global warming will be solved tomorrow. It will NOT be [...]

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On Nothing

Posted by Brendan on August 9th, 2007 filed in death, life, meta

I think I really shocked my friend Alex last night when I conceded that I don’t believe in anything, and I am utterly faithless in both God (which doesn’t exist) and humanity (which doesn’t deserve to exist). You’re born, you live about 80 years, you die. End of story. No afterlife.
“You mean you [...]

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