So, this weird thing has been happening. When people ask me what Buff Beads are I stammer and stutter through an explanation. It's really embarrassing, because it makes me seem unsure of a product I'm very sure of. The slogan, "A simple reminder to be aware of your self-talk" as easy as it is to [...]
We went to the Vancouver Fan Expo specifically to meet my idol Carrie Fisher. I was a very lonely, awkward preteen and spent most of my free time lying in bed daydreaming about having adventures in a galaxy far, far away with my mom, Princess Leia. I had rehearsed for over two decades telling her [...]
I wrote this last year after years of struggling with the October blues. This year the effects of the looming darkness has on me have lessened, but I know the potential for inner upheaval is there. Be well my friends and take it easy on yourselves for the next couple months. The sun will return! I awake [...]
Before The Geeky Taoist and before Buff Beads there was me and a little blog called Advice Over Pie, where I spent hours pouring out my soul into posts about my anxieties and being sick with Ulcerative Colitis. It got very few views, but the writing was therapeutic nonetheless. In 2012, I wrote a post [...]
"The truth has legs; It always stands. When everything else in the room has blown up or dissolved away, the only thing left standing will always be the truth. Since that's where you're gonna end up anyway, you might as well just start there." -Rayya Elias _____________________________ Don’t pole vault over mouse turds. Just pick [...]
"When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it." - Eckhart Tolle ~The Power of Now. An eccentric Polish hippy in Maui once asked what 'truth' meant to me. Because, I'm hoity–toity and seemed to believe I majored in Philosophy, I said love. "Love eh?" [...]
You may think that no one else thinks the same weird thoughts as you do, gets joy from the same silly things or feels the same emotional and physical pain. Maybe in the past you have shared your fears, thoughts and pains with friends and maybe you were ostracized and made to feel stupid. These irresponsible [...]
It's not easy to remain positive. It's a very conscious mindful effort. One momentary unguarded thought can trigger a multitude of others and before you know it you are knee deep in the manure pit of your mind. And this can happen before you even get out of bed in the morning. The idea behind [...]
In June of 2014 I created Buff Beads. It was after a late night of drinking and dancing in the city. I awoke feeling gross, anxious and foggy. Through breakfast and while walking around Vancouver, my mind was a hustle of thoughts and words, creating a slow panic in my body. I went through [...]
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero [...]
Another's difference of opinion doesn't matter. It's how we love and respect each other despite that does.
Don't ever deny yourself the opportunity to feel love. Don't apologize for passion. If more people allowed themselves to unabashedly love the things they like, the world would be a different place.
"I am"...two of the most powerful words you will ever say to yourself. #BuffYourself
Pi is an infinite, non-repeating decimal — meaning that every possible number combination exists somewhere in pi. Converted into ASCII text [computer representation], somewhere in that infinite string of digits is the name of every person you will ever love; the date, time and manner of your death; and the answers to all the great [...]
This year Summer Solstice has a special guest. A full moon. Known in June as a "strawberry moon." The last strawberry moon was seen in 1967. So, tonight as the superstitions go, pagans will be out dancing around henges naked, crazies will be out making more crazy and werewolves will be eating them all. Or...not. The [...]
So many reasons. Let us count the ways.
You guys! Nothing brings us more joy that seeing other's joy! Seeing people doing what they have always wanted to do, embracing their passions and overcoming their fears. It is moving and intoxicating. We all deserve a fulfilling life and seeing others go out and get theirs is motivating. So, have a fabulous weekend my [...]
The doom of the elves is to be immortal, to love the beauty of the world, to bring it to full flower with their gifts of delicacy and perfection, to last while it lasts, never leaving it even when ‘slain’, but returning – and yet, when the Followers come, to teach them, and make [...]
Week in Geek 6/4/16 Elon Musk has us debating whether we live in a computer simulation or not. If the chances are only one in billions that we do not then how much of our history is real? Are our memories programmed? Is this real? The Sims 4 dropped all restrictions on gender customization in [...]
When the Way is forgotten, duty and justice appear; When knowledge and wisdom arise, hypocrisy is born. When there is strife within a family, brotherly love is spoken of. When a country falls into chaos, leaders talk of patriotism. Tao Te Ching Chapter 18 A Brother’s Course of Action: A Faramir Tale March 7, 3019, [...]