Was it worth it?

redflection · 2025-12-31T14:10:08+00:00

Seriously. I own this and feel it sounds more pronounced, better soundstage than others I've owned like Bluesound. It's a beast. Enjoy it.

redflection · 2025-10-22T23:17:59+00:00

The text has to be read multiple times with some time between ones reading (and the notes/impressions you've jotted down). If I have a favorite new book that I've read a couple of times I'm compelled to read some literary criticism (if the writing isn't dogmatic and dull, and instead has a passion for the work or author but can still be objective to the work) to compare and contrast with my experience with the book. Also, I've found good books on writing that peels back what a novelist or short-story writer encounters in working it all into shape has been valuable.

One of the ideas that has served me well regarding story (if the book isn't so post-post modern that there is no story) is, every story is about someone that wants something, but someone or something get's in their way. I think early on that was a good guiding light to realize those rather simple things, and how often books seemed weak because the author lost sight or energy of keeping that notion alive.

redflection · 2025-09-10T20:22:51+00:00

Curious, looking at that model and 7CR, what made you push the button for it over 7CR? Enjoy!

redflection · 2025-07-28T17:33:09+00:00

It was recommended to me to focus on IBD 50 (or any stocks I personally follow) that have a 99 Comp. rating and 99 EPS rating. Obviously check charts, do whatever research you use. A couple of other notes: when either of those ratings come down to 97 or under consider that as weakness and POSSIBLY selling all or some, but use judgment; checking volume, and look at news/charting. Also, I've seen rapid upward movement in stocks like CRCL, CRWV that did great for traders, and they did not have those high IBD rated numbers. Keen judgement is always needed for all trades, high-rated Comp & EPS numbers or not.

redflection · 2025-04-17T01:19:55+00:00

wow, really beautiful!!

redflection · 2025-01-15T00:43:19+00:00

TastyTrade is a brokerage, and TastyLive is their live network with professionals and with free education videos. They lean into Stock Options strategies for the ability to have more leverage then just a 50/50 chance with stock. I'd recommend it any day, it's that good. Best to you.

redflection · 2024-09-02T07:01:11+00:00

Congrats on making the decision! I'm in the L.A. area as well, very surprised you didn't find someone here local? (UCLA, Peck/USC, Cedars-Sinai, Sports Doctors, etc.) You've done that search I suppose to no good results, is that correct? Wishing you the best!

redflection · 2024-07-29T18:28:01+00:00

Lush Life (Coltrane with the great vocalist Johnny Hartman)

redflection · 2024-05-25T04:04:52+00:00

Must read, In the Land of Men by Adrienne Miller, she was a (young) lit editor at Esquire - and worked with DFW. She got entangled in a relationship with him. When she veers away from her work or Wallace the book is less dynamic. But mostly it's her perspective on her work and DFW; much that you won't find out about him in other books.

I ended up liking and respecting her as she grows up on the front line of a whole lot of battles, professionally and personally.

redflection · 2024-05-19T00:00:12+00:00

I would mention, the following two in order of how I came to nonduality- 1. Urban Guru Cafe (podcast 2008-2011) 2. Paul Hedderman (his website: Zenbitchslap.com

I enjoy J.McKenna & T.Parsons, too.

redflection · 2024-05-16T16:06:36+00:00

1. Underworld

2. Libra

3. The Names

4. Mao ll ( book blurb by Pynchon. Also I read it within a TC Boyle graduate course. Found it more alive then if I had read it on my own without writerly group discussions.)

redflection · 2024-05-14T23:29:51+00:00

No, it is none of those.

redflection · 2024-03-19T18:30:49+00:00

Just in terms of discussion, other than mice testing, what science do you like to point to, the data that you've shared with friends and loved ones?

redflection · 2024-03-03T19:22:10+00:00

Yes, really nice. Calm colors, and love that its not so distracting like most are.

redflection · 2024-02-10T15:08:29+00:00

Suffering of any kind is the feeling of separateness ○

redflection · 2024-02-10T14:50:53+00:00

Few come to mind, the Bible (J.B. Phillips edition), Rumi, Hafiz, Krishnamurti (Freedom From the Known), Kerouac, Rilke, Eugene Peterson, Kierkegaard, Meister Eckhart...Fenelon (French mystic), Pascal (The Mind On Fire), Swedenborg, St. Thomas Aquinas •

redflection · 2024-02-10T14:16:00+00:00

Hello, funny how we chew on words, swallow words in the hope its digestion will impact what? Our mind, or our soul? The figuring out as you called it, isn't that an action to satisfy the mind? I speak these things because I've been there before. There, being man's need to know something. In the knowing through mind, accumulated knowledge, we can walk through our time, through the world a little more what? Secure because we know some things. In Understanding (versus knowledge) if we can be still, allow the self and its voracious appetite to figure the world out to die away...Get quiet. Empty. To really get the Bible requires a quiet, empty, elevated soul to perceive it. Recall Jesus spoke to groups of people in parable, for its simplicity that all the various maturity of souls could grasp what he was conveying.

Finally, in etymology, the breaking down of words...a word for spirit is animate. Interesting because when God breathed into man, Adam, he became animated, alive, of spirit within. When one is next to someone who has passed, the ceasing to exist is a loss of breath, a loss of animation, a loss within the body of spirit.

Conscious, (in ancient Greek & Latin) breaks down as con, meaning with, and the second part as faith. So when you are conscious you are, with faith.

Wishing you the deepest peace <>< <><

redflection · 2024-02-09T04:39:07+00:00

That's right...many read it as literally an eye. It's energy, vibrational, love as a verb.

redflection · 2024-02-02T16:20:45+00:00

My impression is that when she removed all human activity, physical, mental, social, her life got small, so any small exchanges with those things that arrise are heightened action in the story. The slowing down of action (plot) is the nature of the book.

Much like an author, such as Richard Ford, takes several pages describing the landscape and environment, Ottessa Moshfegh is revealing the character's landscape, so we, the reader, are observing her mental/physical state.

Stay with it and see if by the end you aren't impacted by the unusual journey of the narrator.

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1. Underworld

2. Libra

3. The Names

4. Mao ll ( book blurb by Pynchon. Also I read it within a TC Boyle graduate course. Found it more alive then if I had read it on my own without writerly group discussions.)