.25(Life+Crisis)=1/4LifeCrisis

So now that I’ve done this:

With the excuse that I simply needed to add some character to my recently-rendered hairless visage, I think it’s now impossible not to make some larger, more encompassing statement about the recent events in my life, which, yes, has reached its Quarter-mark. If you haven’t been playing along with the home edition of our show, I’ve quit my job, lost my faith, shaved my head, pierced my ears and started challenging myself along various personal development veins all over the last month or two. You might think this all adds up to one big, dishonest, emotional attempt to grab hold of my youth or capture some fading opportunities, but you’d be wrong.

Deconstructing…Hair (I shaved my head), (with pics!)

6 Observations on Shaving Your (my) Head

1. One should use clippers instead of scissors for the initial shortening, unless one wants to be writing a post about head shaving at 2:30am, two hours after one picked up the scissors.

Two Good-Morning Multiple Choice Questions

Two challenging multiple choice questions.

Guess what woke me up this morning:

a) The sun

b) Noise from the street

c) Delusions of grandeur

d) A piano tuner doing his business downstairs at 8am

e) A recorded message from Hannah Montana coming from the phone number of a sleep-jealous co-worker

(Answers: d&e)

The best time to schedule a piano tuning appointment is:

a) When 4/4 people that live with you are awake

b) When 1/4 people that live with you are awake

(Answer: a)

Re: Your Thoughts On Deconstructing My Spirituality

Thanks for all the feedback to my earlier post about my re-examination of faith. I appreciate the emails and phone calls and free coffee I’ve gotten out of it too =)

I started to respond to some comments in the comments section but figured I’d copy them here and respond to everyone in a post instead.

In order…

Day 1 as a Livebeat

A deadbeat, by my own definition is someone living a Beat life (not like Kerouac actually did, but the negative connotation of not being tied into the standard social systems of responsibility) and is, to culture, Dead – ie non-productive.

So, someone outside of the common social systems of responsibility but who is responsible to himself and productive for himself could be called a livebeat. 

Deconstructing My Spirituality

I’m very nervous about writing this post (so nervous, in fact, that I’ve been sitting on this finished post for over 3 weeks). I know what it means to many people I love, and I know It will be met by a variety of reactions. Not to mention, as you can tell by the title, I’m re-examining something that has been a big part of my life for seven years. Be sure, it’s not the nervousness that’s inspiring me to take a closer look at things. Yes, I think it’s important to question everything – especially those things that tell us how to live, things that our heart questions, to make sure we’re being rational and ensure that we’re not caught up in culture.