"I believe that the mysterious Roman dodecahedrons that have been found were just fancy candle holders for candles of different thicknesses." -III

"If our pets could talk, they would most likely just ask for more of what they already have because even for us humans you can't be in love with something you haven't already experienced." -III

"'Believe' has the word 'lie' in the middle of it." -III

"How appropriate, in so many ways, to see this today hiking with Scarlett White. The Eagle with its regal head representing all that we have been and could be; the eagle without the head -all that we are failing at." -III

"I had a dream last night that I stated to a group of friends lounging around a table that there should be a radio station that only plays kick drums and kick drum patterns." -III

"Basking in moonlight, I decide to take a basketful of it home and let it loose inside my world. Gathering it up was not a problem at all, it was free and so am i." -III

"Many isolated tribes on planet Earth don't experience depression or anxiety as we know it, as in the types dealt with prominently in the industrialized world." -III

"We sure do like to take the Sun for granted don't we?" -III.

"Much of the infotainment of the internet consists of variations on the style of 'Ripley's Believe it or Not'." -III

"I love our sun, it's our only one." -III

"It is said that in an anechoic chamber, you can hear your own heartbeat, but we can't hear it even in the quietest natural places we can find on earth. The earth is very loud, but most of the universe is very silent." -III

"There are other places, and other times different from where you are right now. Some might be better, and some might be worse, but just pondering on it is a healthy deep breath." -jwIII

"You can't get angry at people for things that they are incapable of doing or understanding." -III

"All of the greats...were students of human moves." -Paul Newman's character in "The Color Of Money."

"Lake Michigan looks like it's an ocean if you didn't know any better. Someone has to tell you it's a lake. The same goes for formula one car races, somebody has to tell you who's winning." -III

"The word "Decimate" historically meant to kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group." -III

"Ink, blood, water, mercury, oil, paint, turpentine, milk." -III

"Learning to cook a few simple meals for yourself is one of the first steps to adulthood. Then the next biggest step is learning to clean up after yourself without being told, then you're an adult." -III

"What about all of the torpedoes that missed their mark and kept moving through the ocean?" -III

"We shouldn't change lanes on the freeway without looking first over our shoulder, and the same goes for when you change paths in life; you check to make sure that nothing is in your way and you're not affecting anyone negatively first, then you make your move." -III

A bird species called a Bleeding Heart Dove. My favorite bird species.

"Silence can be so fulfilling or so depressing. I love to embrace it either way. Sometimes driving a car with no music playing for hours by yourself is the best meditation." -III

"There was once a religion called Manichaeism centering around the duality of the struggle between a righteous spiritual world of light and an evil material world of darkness. It was one of the largest religions in the world, but is all but forgotten now." -III

"Choose wisely when to disagree with someone, often it is not worth it." -III

"Living in a house without windows, and then in a house with nothing but windows, will make you want to find a house with a compromise of both to live in." -III

"THE ROCK AND ROLL INSIDE OF ME WANTS ME TO ADORE, FUCK, OR DESTROY, EVERYTHING I SEE." -III

"Sand can come in many styles; black, white, brown, and each grain is interesting and beautiful if looked at closely. It can be used for so many different functions such as foundation building, the shaping of wood, timekeeping, the filtering of water, and for children to play in." -III

"A good portion of eating a soft serve ice cream cone is preventative maintenance to stop it from dripping down the sides onto your fingers as it melts. This is actually work instead of pleasure, but maybe the most immediately satisfying work that is nonsexual." -III

"Everybody wants a blanket." -III

Long ago, sailors who believed they were seeing mermaids were most likely seeing beluga whales or manatees from a distance which can evoke human shapes. -III

"Today (and every today in the future) is the greatest day in the history of medicine and health care treatment. Each day that we as a species lives, is more experienced and knowledgeable than the last, filled with new improvements and scientific results progressing beneficial treatment." -III

"Desire is the impetus of creation, and desire goes away quickly without struggle." -III

"Time seems to go by faster in the morning, and slower in the afternoon, especially when driving across country. There is a rhythm to the universe, and the sun and its planets, and we are in constant movement even when standing still." -III

At Oxford University.

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed” -Edgar Allan Poe

A gravitational singularity is a theoretical condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that spacetime itself would break down catastrophically.

"One piece at a time, everything in moderation, baby steps, etc. these phrases help us feel better about approaching tasks that we fear by breaking them down to smaller components, I think it also emulates nature." -III

"I want to produce a new airline aviation company where the components on the plane (all of the cabinets and drawers and overhead compartments etc.) are all constructed with thick rubber dampening devices so you never hear a door slam again on a flight. "Old Man Flies through Clouds Airlines." -III

"A lot of people, maybe most, would stop everything they're doing to watch a house burn down." -III

"Beauty, that some say is in the 'eye of the beholder' could be a fact in a different dimension or in what people consider 'heaven'." -iII

"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a very courageous man who deserves the support of the world. He has taken on the struggle of his people and his country with valor and honor. May God bless his path forward and his eventual victory against tyranny." -III #ukraine #volodymyrzelenskyy #zelensky

"A theory is an idea, it might be a fact as well one day, but lack of knowing for sure shouldn't stop the theory from existing and being discussed." -III

Photo by Olivia jean, backstage in Utrecht, Netherlands 2025.

"The horseless carriage initiated a new wonderful epoch for human beings, but ultimately the experience of riding in a horse drawn carriage was not rendered foolish or ridiculous in its loss to this progress, on the contrary, as time passes it becomes only more romantic." -III

"There's a person with a full glass, another person with an empty glass, and a third person with no glass; one has, one wants, and one needs." -III

"The world is full of beasts; some wild, some that have been tamed, and some that are naturally at peace and survive without confrontation." -III

"Exposure to the world can be dangerous, but it can also expose your true self." -III