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"Let's Begin" The moon watches the sun rise over a sleepy neighborhood, and I watch with her as I start my day. #writing #sun #moon #house #sky #sunrise #moonset #clouds #trees #neighborhood #fall #autumn #summer #endofsummer #picoftheday #photooftheday #instalove #instagood #instagram (at Indianapolis, Indiana)

"Great Filters: Part III: Try" Make no mistake, our biggest threat to us is none other than ourselves. Our downfall will be self-inflicted. When we play this game of civilization, we either succeed as a whole or we go extinct, there is no in between. And it's not a game that we can stop playing or put on hold. We are not getting past this Great Filter. But we must try. #writing #greatfilter #space #self #human #humanrace #civilization #extinction #photography #photo #yarn #wool #cotton #thread #sewing #macro #fall #autumn #summer #endofsummer #picoftheday #photooftheday #instalove #instagood #instagram (at Indianapolis, Indiana)

"Great Filters: Part II: Threats" In the event of earthly natural disasters, we have developed rigorous ways to prevent loss of life and to restore infrastructure. For more cosmic natural threats, we have intricate models and predictions, and we are always innovating to prepare and mitigate these threats. As of yet, we do not know of any foreign entities that may seek to harm us. #writing #greatfilter #space #earth #natural #disaster #foreign #life #infrastructure #cosmic #asteroid #photography #photo #bike #bicycle #perspective #fall #autumn #summer #endofsummer #picoftheday #photooftheday #instalove #instagood #instagram (at Fountain Square)

"Great Filters: Part I: Lifespans" One of the defining points of any sentient species is to become space faring in a bid for self-preservation. That is, to attain space travel to other worlds within reasonable time frames relative to the lifespans of the species. However, this will always be met with obstacles, natural, foreign, and domestic. #writing #greatfilter #space #natural #foreign #domestic #photography #photo #sign #signs #yield #road #perspective #interstate #fall #autumn #summer #endofsummer #picoftheday #photooftheday #instalove #instagood #instagram (at Bates-Hendricks)

"Great Filters: Prologue: Optimism" Optimism is no walk in the park. But we must try. #optimism (at Fishers, Indiana)

"Feeling of Falling" Chris woke with a start. Ｉｔ＇ｓ ｔｈａｔ ｆｅｅｌｉｎｇ ｏｆ ｆａｌｌｉｎｇ ｔｈａｔ ｊｏｌｔｓ ｙｏｕ ａｗａｋｅ． He cupped his face in his hands and dug his fingertips into the bridge of his nose, Ｉｔ ｓｎａｐｓ ｙｏｕ ｏｕｔ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｄｒｅａｍ． and took a sharp breath. "I know. I know." he exhaled in a whisper, "I don't." It was early autumn and dark outside. #writing #fiction #dream #falling #darkness #ooml #love #photography #photo #cottage #shed #trees #forest #garden #flowers #perspective #sun #fall #autumn #summer #endofsummer #picoftheday #photooftheday #instalove #instagood #instagram (at Toronto, Ontario)

"Chris, you don't belong up here." The voice came from a blurry figure a yard away. It was muffled, and bouncing off the cobblestone walls of the chamber they were standing in, which was barely lit by a cold twilight through small windows high up. "Chris..." The voice was feminine, soft and airy, but commanding, and in that moment terrifying. They placed their hand on his chest and he froze. As they pushed, he started to tip over like a statue. "...you don't belong up here." He was expecting the floor to meet his back, hard, but it didn't. Instead, he realized the view of his world had become enclosed in a circle and was quickly shrinking, surrounded by black. #writing #fiction #dream #falling #darkness #ooml #love #photography #photo #lamp #brick #wall #perspective #sun #picoftheday #photooftheday #instalove #instagood #instagram (at Toronto, Ontario)

"On the Contrary" Something on my Steam wishlist is currently on sale and I bought it yesterday. When I got home from work, I fired up my desktop to download the game, a desktop which I had not touched in quite a long time. As I was downloading however, I ended up sorting through old photos. I must say, the entire experience was really heart wrenching. I retraced the choices I have made as I sifted through them. One thing I've been telling myself a lot lately is "I chose this, I will live with it and bear any burdens it may carry." I say this, but I want all of you reading this to understand that this doesn't mean I'm settling for something. I am confident that my life has improved because of the choices I've made, and I am confident they will positively affect my life in the near and far future. I stand by my decisions. I must keep the promises I make to myself. There may be pain, but that doesn't mean that I'm worse off. It doesn't mean I made the wrong choice. On the contrary, I think I made a very right choice. And I am more than content with that. #writing #experience #choice #decisions #pain #confidence #burden #promise #happy #games #truck #road #street #posts #vintage #sky #trees #perspective #photography #photo (at Indianapolis, Indiana)

"Repairing, Maintaining and Cleaning" "Rick, the only connection between your unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying your family is that everyone in your family, you included, use intelligence to justify sickness. You seem to alternate between viewing your own mind as an unstoppable force, and as an inescapable curse. And I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for you is that it's your mind within your control. You chose to come here. You chose to talk, to belittle my vocation, just as you chose to become a pickle. You are the master of your own universe. And yet you are dripping with rat blood and feces. Your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt you would be bored senseless by therapy. The same way i’m bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There’s no way to do it so wrong you might die. It’s just work. And the bottom line is: some people are okay going to work and some people... well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose." - Dr. Wong. #rickandmorty #pickle #rick #morty #picklerick #psychology #selfcare #selflove #self #repairing #maintining #cleaning #choice #work #monologue #drwong #wong (at Indianapolis, Indiana)

#tb to @chreeceaf on 26th Aug 2017. It was a sunny Saturday and I was at @squarecatvinyl having an afternoon coffee, half writing, half starting to notice that people were gathering for some kind of event. I stayed right where I was, as I usually do when I'm caught unawares in the middle of what looks like will be good music. But music was not what I received, music was but some really nice wrapping paper (but no kidding, like, really nice). I was mildly aware in the first act, @allisonvictoriaaa, but by the second act, @rhetoryk_muzik, it was overtly clear that what these artists had intended to deliver was rhetoric. This is a shoutout to the vessel which is rhetoric, delivered in the medium that is music, and to the artists for sending messages worth listening. #rhetoric #rhetoryk #allisonvictoria #writing #music #hiphop #rap #wordsmith #midwest #indy #indie #chreece #squarecatvinyl #vinyl #fountainsquare #coffee (at Square Cat Vinyl)

"The faces of the people around you" Taken in Madisonville, KY, in a Lowe's parking lot, where many people congregated to view the Great American Eclipse of 2017. On the drive here, I heard someone on the radio say "Don't use your camera to take pictures of the eclipse, instead use it to take pictures of the faces of people around you." I obviously did not follow that advice, but I can attest that while the eclipse itself did instill a sense of awe, the reactions of people around me were equally inspiring. So for a little under 3 minutes on this Monday afternoon, in a hardware store parking lot, a host of strangers and I, shared in a moment much bigger than all of us, and one that none of us will ever forget. #eclipse #eclipse2017 (at Madisonville, Kentucky)

I just found that 2017 is a prime number, so at least there's that. #trees #number #math #prime #2016 #2017

Dear Everyone, I would like you to have a conversation with whomever you wish, friends, family, and strangers alike, online or in person, and start with this, "I want this to be a poignant moment, so please just answer me honestly with a simple 'yes' or 'no'." "Can I trust to feel safe around you?" If they skirt around the question by asking another, like asking you to define what "safe" means, tell them that it is whatever they think it means. If they say "no", do what you will with that information. If they say "yes", let them know as an act of faith that you'll take their word for it, and then take their word for it. Remember to thank them. The real question is if they are being honest with themselves when they are answering yours. But they will be asking themselves that. Please share, healing starts with empathy, and from the bottom up. #feelsafe

Yesterday, on the way home from work, I was listening to a story on NPR about how some elementary school kids had taken a field trip to CU Boulder to get college students to vote as part of a civics class project. They had been learning about how for many people in the U.S.A. voting was not always a right, and that way back then, only white men who owned property had the right to vote. It was not until long after that others, such as women and people of color gained the right to vote. While expressing amazement at what they have learned about voting, they were even more amazed that some would just decide not to, when some college students walking by said that their vote wouldn't count anyway. That had me thinking.. Your vote matters, not because claims that the election process is unfair are wrong. Your vote matters, because of the people that fought it. Your vote matters, because the right to do so has historic significance that makes this nation great. Your vote matters, because of those who have devoted their life to grant you this right On this day, let's take a little bit of time forgetting our preconceptions of what the election is and how our votes do not matter. Instead, let's take a little bit of time to reflect on the history of this hard earned right and why our votes DO matter. I'm not American and cannot vote, but I believe what I've said here also applies to many other democracies around the world. So while I cannot vote, I really encourage those who are eligible to do so. GO VOTE. And if you have already, be proud of the fact that you have stood up for the people who have lived and died for your right to do so. The polls here in Indy close in the next 10 minutes or so, but I hope this message reaches out to those who still have time. #vote #election #election2016

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