Sorting out my wants from my needs is a difficult process filled with stumbling blocks and tough decisions, but I am finding life much more satisfying and rewarding when I am truly focused on my needs.

How to Give up Keeping Up with the Joneses

Stop keeping up with the Joneses

I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things

---Franz Kafka

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Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle)

I originally began this blog as a means to share my writing with friends. (A handful of those original posts are still included.) Starting my own blog increased my interest in other blogs and sites, so I began searching and reading. I found too many blogs and sites, particularly during these difficult economic times, focusing on things, stressing “money saving” ideas on the unnecessary, or admonishing negative feelings while providing no substantial alternatives. These sites designed to “inspire” or “help” left me disappointed and empty. Written by people that I believe had the best intentions but just fell short by overlooking the most important aspects of life and humanity.

Now this blog is designed to help fill that emptiness for me by showcasing those positive facets of life and humanity missing in my search. My hope is that it will do the same for someone else too.

lists (I shut my eyes in order to see. - Gauguin)

I believe it is ideas, actions, and connections that define us, inspire us, and bring us the truest happiness. Even the simplest of these are far more powerful than any one thing. They help us to feel linked and accepted. They bring us hope. They provide us with a reason. It is because of this I created the lists below. These lists include music, movies, books, and websites that offer those feelings to me. Explore the items on my lists further if you find something new or of interest to you, but more importantly I encourage you to create your own lists.

Music (After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Huxley)

Movies (Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. -Levant)

13 conversations about one thing
21 Grams
A Beautiful Mind
Amelie
American Beauty
American History X
Big Fish
Cadillac Records
Charlie Bartlett
Children of Men
Chocolat
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Dead Poets Society
Donnie Darko
Everything is Illuminated
F**k: A Documentary
Fearless
Fight Club
Fur
Garden State
Hotel Rwanda
In Her Shoes
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Lars and the Real Girl
Leaving Las Vegas
Less Than Zero
Little Miss Sunshine
Office Space
Ray
Requiem for a Dream
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Saved
Sex and Lucia
Shawshank Redemption
Shopgirl
Shortbus
Sliding Doors
Sling Blade
Stranger than Fiction
The Hurricane
The Muppet Movie
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Virgin Suicides
The Wizard of Oz
Trading Places
UHF
V for Vendetta
Walk the Line
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Wristcutters: A Love Story

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June 22, 2009

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. (Josh Billings)

Sorting out my wants from my needs is a difficult process filled with stumbling blocks and tough decisions, but I am finding life much more satisfying and rewarding when I am truly focused on my needs.

I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things

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Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle)

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lists (I shut my eyes in order to see. - Gauguin)

Places (Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you - Amos)

Music (After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Huxley)

Movies (Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. -Levant)

Books (There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. -Morley)

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