simple things

No matter what I do, I come back to this concept and I think it is good that I do. I want less of a lot of things. I need to donate these books. I want to get rid of clothing. I want to do away with so many different things right now I need to be clean I guess.

Most of this has come from speech. Thought inspires speech and speech informs thought which inspires more speech. I've changed my online speech a bit by simply using fewer words. Using fewer, but more meaningful words inform my thoughts which become brief, but more meaningful. My self-imposed limit forces me to eject unnecessary words and say only what is essential.

You would be surprised at how many things are not needed in a sentence to communicate thoughts on a pure level. I learned that from a book I read in college, but I've taken time to extend and refine that thought. I've noted that I don't need a lot of things to communicate:

• pronouns.
• justification/excuses.
• words.

Taking out the moments I preface things or explain things, I've successfully managed to say anything I've needed to say in ten words. I could probably blog like that, but since this is meant to explore the inner workings of my own mind, detail is important. I need pronouns and I need to explain a bit of myself here.

It's the late night hours like this that I spend in somber silence that give me a place to voice all this, but it's also something I carry inside; a hallowed space to distill my mental noise into pure thoughts of ten or less words.


Today I sent three handwritten letters. I'm sure this is shocking to most people. I am confused as to why, though. It still happens. People write letters and send cards and other things via the US Postal System. I guess people thinking communicating thought in a non-digital form is a lost art. Consider me a mystic then.