Valhalla
I am a great lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. The brilliant mind, seems to me, preached a live lived artfully in which a true love for the present moment was essential.  One is encouraged to look into the void of the Universe and know that life is really a flash in the pan. When you know that life is a flash in the pan, you want that spark to be like lightning. In fact, Niezsche  wrote of the great overman as one who was touched by lightning. To do this one has to have the discipline to drink deeply from the present moment. One must be able to calm the mind and perceive that life is happening, try to pay attenti

Going Home
Today I am going home. What the fuck is home. I am from Santiago, Chile. I spent a year in Tallahassee Florida. I spent a year in Mendoza, Argentina. I have lived in DFW for almost 4 years. Three years in St. Louis, Mo. Three years in Houston, TX. Merry travels through Santa Cruz, CA and depressed travels in New York, New York. Lubbock is my home town. For

Meditation
Its 8:35 pm the Friday before Thanksgiving break. I have a week off from work. I am so fucking tired.  Working as a professional teacher has been the hardest I have ever worked in my life. I could write  a whole tome on the details. All in all, your first year as a professional teacher consists of more work than anyone could possibly do, more scrutiny of your work than any human of healthy self-esteem is built to handle, and a few expensive tests that could derail your whole career to boot. I am doing everything in my power not to think about any of that for at least a couple of days. I need a few days to brea

Status Report
I have not posted on this blog in 6 months. Wow.  I have a cousin who once told me that blogs are exhibitionistic. It is precisely this kind of thing that makes me occasionally feel weird about blogging. But, then again, all art is a little exhibitionistic. I have been teaching for about 3 months now and these are my brief reflections. 1.) It is a good job, it pays well, its better in all regards to all my prior jobs. 2.) It is extremely stressful and time consuming. 3.) I desperately need to have some kind of life outside of teaching.The last year has been a