Tag: ignoring reality

• Yelling Instructions and Open Caskets – Thoughts from January 27, 2023

  

  I’m terrible at non-creative tasks. If you tell me to create something or help figure something out, I can start thinking of possibilities right away. If you give me orders to follow, my brain panics and shuts down. I can memorize things on my own, but my conversational memory sucks. When I have written instructions,…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 21, 2024

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• Fictional Stories of Belief – Thoughts from July 25, 2022

  

  I had a thought as I was driving to work, and I sent myself a note about it. I will now expound upon it in the storage locker of my thoughts. It continues my previous musing about telling your story. Your beliefs are not part of your story so you should not include them when…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 21, 2023

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• Space Alien – Thoughts from May 3 and 4, 2033

  

  May 3, 2022 I’m listening to a book that is an oral history of The Next Generation and subsequent Star Trek shows. They talked about Deep Space 9 which I never watched. Hearing a description of the show, I don’t think I’ll ever watch it. They talked about spirituality being a part of it, which…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 10, 2023

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• Introduction

  

  Thoughts from Life was originally a series I wrote when I was working in an office with little to do. I’ve never been one to sit around and do nothing, so I worked on creative writing projects. It was 1997 and I believe I brought the writings in on a 3.5 inch floppy disk. If…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 30, 2022

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