Monday, December 15, 2008

Goodness, me oh my.

Time does seem to fly. I can hardly believe that my last post was months ago. But the Wheel cogs of a plan are forming in my head, getting ready to turn and click into place. But a few longer months.... well few is a relative term... and the shades of my plan can genesai into being.

We shall go to Egypt. If we plan now the plain tickets will be under 1000 dollars. Round trip too. We shall head to Cairo. Explore the foreign landscape of a land we've seen only in dreams and pictures. The Hall shall only wait so long. The Third is just around the corner. I can almost feel it in the adrenaline in my blood. My heart races at the thought. Destiny awaits.

A sojourn.

From the great sands we shall walk. Into the mountains. See the shrines in Tibet and Nepal. Visit the holy sites of India. Days we shall walk. Tired in body we shall become, but energized in spirit we shall grow.

From India, to Ancient China we shall enter. The ancient Cairns and cities we shall see. Finding the places of power one by one. Filling the jars with the soils of creation. But that isn't our goal. Not even the Hall is our goal. We are the goal.

From central China we will travel back west. Through the vast emptiness of the Gobi Desert. There we will try to find the nomadic tribes. To learn that which has not changes in centuries.

Through the middle east, We shall see modern wonders, like almaty-capchagai, and Dubai, but these are but mere trifles compared to what we seek.

Into Europe we shall go. To visit the shrines in Romania, to see the catacombs of Rome, To visit the birth of the Renaissance in venice, florince, and vienna. But Older then that we shall go. Visiting the great cities of present and past. The gatherings of power that once whispered through the cities life blood. Politics, machinations, power. Many things were part of this. But what we will learn is more potent then that.

We shall study the secrets.

The old circles will becon to us. The blood in our veins will thrum to draw nearer.

Wanderlust describes this not. Sanity isn't lost looking for it.

For we are it.

Travelers.
~Wayfarers

.... and a story we shall tell you, though it may be slow in coming.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

the dreamscape

The dreamscape can be many things to different people, but right now what it is to me can be summed up in but one word and that is jumbled.... I and others around me keep having the dreams, we seem to think the mean something, but I don't know what it is. Am I just hallucinating and thinking I remember things that don't exist or did they really happen and they fade because of the real? I would that I could but remember and ask a question or .... million... Right ...

Various sources keep telling me that what I seem to be searching for isn't really there. It is with in myself. Am I battling my karma, or is there something deeper to it all? I don't think anything I do is as it seems, the veils are hidden with in themselves, the hidden stay that way because they know how the searchers will look. Its not the first time around the cycle... but maybe its the last....

Many questions plauge me, but I best get back to school now so I can get back to celebrating my birthday, and the start of a new year of existence...

Safe travels and take it easy,
~Wayfarer

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Thinking.... its an act we all do every day.... some more then others, some less... some to a degree that is more developed then their peers around them. Thinking is one of the acts that we sometimes take for granted like breathing. Sometime we forget what it is that we're really doing. We can get lost in the melancholy of our actions. We forget what we take in. The human mind is an extraordinary thing. it takes in nearly limitless amounts of information and compresses it so our frail psyches can take it in, and so we're not gibbering masses of flesh that can't move because we have to thing about all the little things we do, like breath, pump our hearts, monitor our nerves and much more. Our medulla oblongata (I might have spelled that wrong...) lets us ignore most of the things that we need to do to live, making most of the things we do into repeatable patterns that we're not usually aware of. That combined with the human autonomic system (the nerves and immune system and such) allow us to react to things that we ordianarilly be able to percieve let alone react too.

But unfortunately we sometimes forget to think about the things that we really should.... We ignore the sensations, emotions that shouldn't be forgoten.... lots of little things that shouldn't be ignored...

Remember.

Remember what we can....


~Wayfarer

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Summer continues to progress, at times fast and at times slow. Many memories shall be and have been born. I cannot stand to wait until august. But only 24 days left...

I cannot wait.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

wow....

What the hell just happened? ....

Have you ever had one of those experiences where you feel like you just missed the plot? One of those double take moments that result in a face thats like O.o when ever you think about it?

Sometimes life just makes one's head spin. Ya just gotta go with the flow I guess and see where things go.... and try not to think about things too much.

Silence is confusions best friend.

Confusion fufilled,
~Wayfarer

Saturday, June 14, 2008

This evening I had an eye opening time. I realized what a warped world we live in. The world I and others (ie you the reader(s)) exist in is one of segregation. How ever we segregate not on race, but rather on intelligence, and the things that go along with it. Those who are smart tend to stay with those who are smart, and any difference is immediately pounced upon.

Our world is both rich and poor in many ways, but how do we know where we fall? The reality of it is we're all the poor in something, compared to some one else. We may be rich in one aspect, for example ideas, intelligence, money, or something else, but there is always some one out there who has more.

Some people can take this is a good way, being thankful, others will take it poorly. The difference really isn't the issue of how people view it all. Its how we view each other. No matter how different some one is from you in visible or invisible ways, we should all try at least a little to welcome them into our lives and spread the vaulable item that is friendship.

Friends can be around for long or short times, impact you deeply or not, but in the end no matter how small taking the time for someone else can leave an impact. And that impact can last forever.

Trying to change the invisible, for only others can see the change in ones self,
~Wayfarer

Friday, June 6, 2008

Sorry no words of wisdom, or random attempts at guiding people through rants today.... well maybe...

But today I'm taking a bit of time for myself. I like everyone else in the world feels frustrations, and no matter how accomplished anyone may be at letting things go eventually its too much, like trying to fill a full cup with more water.

It makes me angry. These things. Frustration, anger, rage, sadness, all words to describe emotions or feelings. I feel many things but good things they are not always. Words like emotions have double meanings. The hide themselves through veils like things like etiquette and self control. The simple things can have huge impacts even if its not too you.

It all hurts so much. But I don't know what to do. How does one cope? Maybe I'm misguided, maybe I'm prideful, maybe I'm just stupid or some other reason, but what can be done? Is there a deeper meaning?

A wanderer is lost,
~Wayfarer

Saturday, May 31, 2008

They say time changes everything. Everything dulls with age. A shadow if imagination creeps across the planescape of memories.

Psychologists say that every time you remember something, when you recall it its more like reliving it. It changes a little every time. That perfect memory or worst nightmare slowly decays. Its an unstoppable force. The mind's linkages are based on repetition. If a scent that was there during the formation occurs again, its likely to trigger a memory. All sensory inputs can be remembered.

But every time you recall a memory the sensory inputs of the recall point can also be stored.

Decay and entropy are inevitable. If you remember it decays. If you don't remember you should not remember remembering.

In the end it all changes.

Remember the memories, and make new ones,
~Wayfarer

Monday, May 26, 2008

Hmmm.
They say life is about learning right?
But that seems counter intuitive to me... Because learning is relative. What we think is correct now, may very well be wrong later. Take the history of the shape of the earth as an example. Or the layout of the solar system, First geocentric, then heliocentric, now minus one of the planets... Couldn't one say that life is about truth?

"Truth can cause pain. Pain can cause sorrow. Sorrow leads to a spiral. A spiral is human fate."

Fate, a lofty and heavy word. Psychologically there are two centers, or loci, of control that a human will gravitate towards on a spectrum. The first is the inner loci of control. This is the place that people who feel that everything that happens is a direct result of their own actions, like if they get a bad grade its because they didn't study hard enough. With enough effort these people feel they can change anything. The other end of the spectrum is the external locus of control, these people feel that everything that happens both good or bad isn't their fault. If they get a bad grade the test was flawed, if they win a race they were lucky ect...

No matter where you fall on the spectrum between the two points there's always something thats either in your control or totally out of it.

I thought I knew where I was going with this.... maybe things will click later...

I don't know what I'm doing anymore. They say that the present is the most important part of life, but I don't have a goal for the present of the future. It just hurts inside. And its my fault.

Maybe you know what your goal is,
Good luck... Till next time,
~Wayfarer

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The fine are of procratsination, essays and opinions

This week brings me to you located from a computer at the local community college.... where I should be writing a 10 page paper for my English class, thats due today. But in conversation with CanvasWanderer, a class mate of mine and fellow procrastinator, on relating the internet, blogs and formal research to a paper.

Sometimes a truly human feeling, procrastination, is a dark art. It seduces you slowly while the deviant, in this case the procrastinator, rationalizes why its okay to procrastinate. Soon an idyllic cycle of partial work, avoidance and self reasoning ensues.

The vagueness of the work to be done, combined with apparently far off due dates may often result in a last minute panic as realization and pressure sets in.

They say to avoid this to segment you time with more manageable goals and to work from there, but its easier said then done. I say enjoy life a little, work a bit on and off, and figure out really what you want to do....

Or at least do something fun, in this case blog, or play fiesta (http://www.outspark.com/fiesta)....

Saftey meet you on your paths, and perils avoid you,
~Wayfarer

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Sometimes life just always seems to throw curveballs when you least expect it to.

There are some things that there is no acceptable answer, when the whole situation is headed 'down the tubes'. Its times like those that you can really learn something mates. Hell most of the important things I learned and lived, have been because of screw ups.

Sometimes you just have to accept that things will go bad at one point. Try to make the best of them and learn.

From the Sepia Path,
~Wayfarer

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Well Sorry for the delay in postings... Things have been kinda hectic in my life. I've had a couple spates with friends, and a new puppy doesn't help matters...

But back to the journey that is life.
I'm constantly reminded we're in a realm surrounded by conflict, and supposed to learn compassion. Sometimes its all to easy to let our feelings build up till they explode. It's pride that won't let us move beyond these things. We've gotta focus more on the now.

We should ask ourselves, will this really matter tomorrow?

I know its hard. All we can do is try.

The first step is identifying the feelings that we feel. You should follow the feeling backwards to try to identify the causes. Sometimes its not easy, other times it might be an obvious source of frustration or emotion.

Try to be neutral when doing this...

And remember, fail or succeed at least you tried.

'Fall in love or fall in hate.
Get inspired or be depressed.
Ace a test or flunk a class.
Make babies or make art.
Speak the truth or lie and cheat.
Dance on tables or sit in the corner.
Life is divine chaos. Embrace it.
Forgive yourself. Breathe.
And Enjoy the Ride.

(Solbeam)

Till next time,
Safe dreaming,
~Wayfarer

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Sorry I haven't been posting much recently. Life has been very hectic. As soon as things calm down I'll post all the back stuff I have up.

Until then Safe travels,
~Wayfarer


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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Today was a spectacular day, despite having to get up in the six o'clock hour to shovel and the roads being treacherous.

Today I reacquainted myself to an old resource that an old friend once told me about and lent me, The Wanderer's Handbook. While its name might imply some greatness to it, its humble cover always had a sort of austere quality. The wanderer's handbook simply put is a book about those that don't feel they belong, which in todays society is many people, whether or not they are willing to admit it.

The wanderer's handbook (by Carla Lisbeth Rueckert) is a bit unorthodox in its approach to why people feel ostracized by society or why they don't feel like they belong. Its a book on spirituality (in a sense) and other phenomena in the world and the universe.

While it offers its unique approach to the world in and of its self its kind of meaningless. I just thought that the book offers different views depending on how you choose to interpret it, and sense I've been trying to change my views of life I decided to try to look outside the box.

I hope that all of you can someday do the same if you choose to.

Until next time,
~Wayfarer

Friday, January 18, 2008

Delayed posts

Sorry for the delay in posts.... I've been having some computer issues, mainly my physical memory dying... and as a result several rants got pushed back... This ones gonna be long cause its really three in one....

For Thursday 17-01-2008 Rant 1

Well this morning was was really pretty. It started to snow this morning so I really couldn't help but take pictures today. I didn't really go anywhere out of my usual but I decided to take pictures of cool architecture around the city and while I was headed home from dropping my sister off at school. It was breathtakingly beautiful in the snow. The quiet was very calming and had a almost tranquil quality. I wish that I could have spent more time aimlessly roving about in the wondrous weather...
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For Thursday 17-01-2008 Rant 2 : RICE

So some time later after admiring the outside a bunch I came back inside and sat down to think. Today I was thinking about food and how I often take the very food I eat everyday (or don't eat depending on the day.... >.<) and how I've been so fortunate just about all my life, I can always get food when I need it, its good food too. I feel for the people who can't eat everyday because of local economic hardship or a myriad of other factors like poverty and such. After pondering that I started thinking over some of the basic food staples though out the world, mainly rice, potatoes, and corn. Each of these plants are wonders of evolution and science. Each thing can make nearly limitless variants of food and if one would want to one could eat it every day and never eat the same thing twice. I wanted to make something with one of these food items, and seeing as I didn't have enough corn or potatoes I went with rice. Now its by no means fancy, because I had almost no food in the house, but with a little bit of thought and two other ingredients a person can make some very good food. I decided to make fried rice... with eggs.... and thats about it, technically I did use some oil and soy sauce but thats just semantics. They turned out really good and only took about eight minutes to prepare once the pan had been sufficiently heated up. Here are some simple directions.

First crack one to two eggs (depending on the amount of rice) into a bowl and scramble them. Once thats done set the egg bowl to the side and start heating up a pan with some olive, canola, or vegetable oil on the stove at medium high heat. While the pan is heating up take some leftover rice (it doesn't need to be leftover it just needs to be dry, but previously cooked in some way... it is do-able with recently washed rice just let the rice dry... a lot.) and crumble it onto a plate or bowl. (You need to do this step because you don't want clumps and when wet rice cools and dries it tends to stick together depending on what its stored in.) Then set the rice to the side and pick up the egg(s). By now the pan should be fairly hot, scramble the egg in the tbs of oil and break the egg into small (think pinky nail sized) bits. Then add the rice to the egg and stir evenly mixing the eggs into the rice. Next you add soy sauce to taste into the pan, the rice should be a light to medium brown in color. Stir the contents of the pan well to make sure that everything gets distributed evenly. Carefully serve. Remember its gonna be hot.

You can add other ingredients like meat and other vegetables to preference. If you do that cook the eggs first then any meat then vegetables. I would have added other things but I didn't have any ingredients.... sorry... next time maybe.


This post is getting really long. I suppose I should put off my thoughts and pictures of the capitol off until next time, perhaps tomorrow, depending on the weather.... (If its nice I'm gonna head over to the library to work on my research, if its not I'll be stuck inside because of the cold and thus I'll probably post).

Appreciate the things in life that are always there, remember you never know when they might not be there next time.
~Wayfarer

Wednesday, January 16, 2008


Today was the first time sense this started that I worked specifically towards being a wayfarer. A wayfarer is a traveler on a journey, esp on foot. While I don't really travel on foot, I do want to travel, even if those travels are just in my own little home town of Madison. I really wanted to get a picture of the sunrise and capital today but due to traffic this morning that wasn't possible with out risking an accident. I suppose I shall have to wait until the snow thats headed into the region tonight melts.

On the upside today was deliciously sunny for a winter month.

In other news I got to play with a cute little lovable birdy Willow, of the lovebird family. She's a beauty and lots of fun even if she does have a mildly bad biting habit, if your careful no major injury will be sustained.

I learned to appreciate the beauty that are birds today a little more today.

May you too find beauty in your travels and sojourns,
~Wayfarer

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

New Beginings

Hi. I'm the Wayfarer. Wayfarer's Ink, as the name refers to is the electronic rants, dialogs, monologues, pictures, notes, and research of my and my travels, even if those travels at this time aren't so far away. Today (15-1-2008 21:51 GMT -6) marks the first day in my spiritual and possibly physical journey. A new start as a whole.

My current goal at this point in time is to post sporadically (but at least once a week) when ever things of interest occur.

Best of luck in your travels,

Till the next time we meet,
~Wayfarer