Shakespeare really knew how to curse.

One of my favorite authors, Christopher Moore, has just released a new novel titled "Fool" and it is his take on King Lear from the perspective of the Fool.  I am about 90% through and it is likely his most ambitious novel to date.  To anyone who enjoys the darker side of Shakespeare I highly recommend it.  This is dirty minded, violent, historical re-telling at its best.

Having my head beaten against a wall

I was about to start this post with "beating my head against a wall" but that implies choice, a kind of mindfulness that isn't involved with the situation at hand. We all know I am an advocate of controlling your own destiny, taking responsibility for your own damn self and all of that. But there are times where outside factors really do impact your situation. In those cases where it is linked to family or job or a situation where the impact of removing yourself from it would potentially create more of a headache then staying in and pushing through, those times it can honestly feel like someone is shoving you into an immovable barrier. At those times it is hard to know what to do. When you are in between the archetypal rock and hard place and you head is going to get smashed into something either way.

I need some tea.

Volume of commitment

Has anyone else ever noticed that we speak about doing things with our whole hearts, while at the same time, in the same culture, we talk about doing things with half our ass. Somehow this idea strikes me as being both profound and sad.