An obvious surplus of food in Yakima

While walking home after dropping off my dog this evening, I was unexpectedly roused from my introspective ponderings by an egg suddenly hitting me in the thigh. Evidently, the driver of the black sports car that subsequently sped away had had too many eggs in his refrigerator and was hard pressed for a means of disposing of them. Fair enough! Although I can think of far more productive uses for excess food than randomly tossing it out a window at unsuspecting pedestrians.

Interestingly, I had been thinking about ways to cultivate gratitude just prior to being pelted by the incredible, edible projectile, and once I had realized what happened I felt extremely thankful that the egg had not splattered on my trousers, but instead had only broken open after falling to the concrete.

 

• The vagabond’s raison d'être lies in search of answers to questions he knows not.

• Potentially portentous dreams of devils or demons—and I had two such occurrences last month— are evidently unearthed from the depths of unfrequented cognition, as well as regrettable actions, and reveal (at least to some extent) how far compunction has compromised one’s capacity to recognize the truth.

• With apparent credulity, the vast majority of our “developed” societies (myself included) have unwittingly apotheosized an inexorably indolent and presuming existence dependent upon the articles of an inanimate architecture, technological progress being the bannerman’s cry; however, in spite of this pervasively postulated value, one might be hard-pressed to find one in ten who can adequately articulate an idea with any semblance of sagacity or distinguish between the affections many demonstrate for their possessions relative to their progeny.

• Repudiation of goodness occurs when a critically conscientious mind, that is to say, an intellect self-elevated over the preeminent word of an authoritative One, becomes more or less inattentive and otherwise unacknowledging of all the many evidences of providential favour and kindness. Such a scholastic justifies his supposition by the argument of objectivity, for he has been persuaded that no greater trespass can be levied upon a learner than that of arbitrarily accepting a notion. Similarly, the prominent pedagogue will invariably denounce a blessing—although presented through magnanimity—for which his methodological approach finds no substantiation.

• No greater malevolence can be found than that which already exists within a man’s soul.

• As with all personal ideas and purported insights, some may be relevant and even applicable to friends or acquaintances which I have beyond myself; others are, perhaps, mere whims of a fantastical sort meant only for ephemeral contemplation. Therefore, it is encouraged to take that which might be useful and let the dross lie.