The Philosophy of the Titanium Don
Ramblings

Category: Pathwalking

You’re Allowed Moments of Good Amid This Bad

Life/reality is never only one thing. This is one of the most convoluted, ridiculous times anyone could have imagined living in. After some 50 years of steady progress with inclusivity, diversity, environmental protections, expanding rights, and other milestones, here we are. In just 6 months, our so-called leaders have done truly surreal harm. It’s not just here in the United States, of course. Putin and his war in Ukraine, the insanity between Netanyahu’s government and Hamas and the Palestinians, it

Staying Aware Of the World Without Becoming Overwhelmed

This is not easy. I’m simply stunned by how bad Trump’s administration is. They seem hell-bent on undoing decades of progress in health, the environment, human rights, inclusivity, and anything else even remotely “woke” or liberal. We have one damned planet. Sure, go ahead, let’s go back to heavy smog choking our cities, killing our drinking water, and the rest. If it makes someone money, that’s far more important. I know this based on headlines I’ve read, and it’s sufficient

What If There’s Not Really an Us vs Them?

What if the divides between people are wholly artificial? Everywhere you turn, you’re shown an us vs them. We’re constantly bombarded by messages defining who is who, and both blatantly and subtly making one or the other the villain of the piece. Conservative vs liberal. Black vs white. Male vs female. Old vs young. Christian vs atheist. Palestinian vs Israeli. Native vs immigrant. Have vs have not. Us vs them. No matter the label you apply to any people, places,

Getting a Handle On My Shortened Fuse

A quest to create or find more chill, balance, and centering. Lately, I go from calm to irked like a high-performance car goes from zero to sixty. I recognize that there’s something in the collective consciousness eating away at my calm, my balance, my okay. Without a doubt, this is tied to the horribly unkind, uncompassionate, hateful, spiteful “people” in positions of power. When did it become okay to be outright rude, nasty, and disrespectful? The not-funny thing about this

Why Do I Keep Doing This?

Is there a reason for me to keep doing this? For my first-ever New Year’s Action, back in 2011/2012, I decided to embrace my desire to be a more prolific writer. My New Year’s Action was this: I would write a blog entry, once a week, every Wednesday. That was 707 weeks ago – 13.6 years. Every. Single. Wednesday. For more than 13 years. When I started exploring this idea for choosing my own way in life – Pathwalking –

The Best Way to Handle Fear is to Face It

The uncomfortable truth. When people are scared, what they fear can become so overwhelming to the senses and emotions that they release all reason. Fear overrides logic, overcomes sensibility, and the next thing you know, you’ve allowed someone to manipulate you. All you need to do is look at the current American political situation to see the truth of this. The fear of suffering has been weaponized horrifically. Many people have been convinced that they will suffer horribly when the

How Do You Engage Active Conscious Awareness?

Practicing mindfulness is equally easy and challenging. Let’s get factual, shall we? Every single human being on Planet Earth is of three minds. Each of these has a job to do as part of your holistic, overall being. No one can function without the other. The first is the unconscious mind. This is where your brain controls the pumping of your heart, the working of your lungs, digestion, synapses firing, and all the necessary things that allow you to live.

What Are You Doing and Why Are You Doing It?

Not an easy question to answer. Everyone faces expectations when it comes to doing things in life. Things tend to be done in one of three categories. By and large, people tend to focus on doing for others and the world. And by the world, I mean that nameless faceless entity that encompasses world affairs, politics, environmentalism, and so on. While the narrative in the collective consciousness tends to imply (or sometimes state outright) that you should put others (and

You Can Only Open Your Mind

The minds of others are outside your power. I don’t know about you, but one thing that drives me batty is closed-mindedness. It’s especially frustrating and infuriating when you see someone holding onto something illogical, unreasonable, hurtful, and harmful out of fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or some combination therein. Then, to add insult to injury, it doesn’t help that political parties, business leaders, religious leaders, would-be demagogues, and others weaponize that fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or combination therein. The divide

You Are What You Believe That You Are

It really is that simple. Who are you? That can be an incredibly loaded question. Who you are might not be a simple, singular answer, either. This might or might not be familiar to you: At work, you put on a specific mask, attitude, and persona. When you’re with family, the face you wear and the person you project is who they expect you to be. With friends, depending on the group, you’re the clown or the voice of reason.

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