The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way
It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working. . . I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion. . . What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a heavy price for our convictions. This is a human issue as well as a writing issue - at least in the personal essay as I practice it. Any real essayist knows that certainty is an editorial decision, arrived at not through conviction but through suppression, the denial of a whole range of possibilities, of alternatives that we jettison, sometimes necessarily, in order to steady the ship.
the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all