Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is Chunky. And Chunky could give a fuck about the past or the future. All that he gives a shit about is RIGHT NOW. Though his past behaviours, training and experiences have shaped how he behaves, all that shit doesn’t matter now. What matters is how what he’s become is able to be present right now. And isn’t that…
I’m hitting the road for a 20-hour roadtrip today to hang out with my brother in the Victorian high country. And I’m taking my dog Chunky. Now… I’m pumped about it and when playing with Chunky I’ve told him many iterations of how pumped I exactly am about it. You know: ‘We’re going on a roadtrip, Chunky.’, ‘We’re heading out…
Bliss n Eso just came out with a new album (oh, it’s a banger alright) and this is a line from Moments: The only thing we really own is our memories. In the last year, my dog Chunky’s chewed his way through about 10 cushions, a few shirts, a couple footballs, a hockey puck and a TV remote (some of which were…
In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius talks about how to see everything for how important it really is, by taking ‘Plato’s view’. That is, specifically a bird’s eye one. It’s best to take a birds-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets—all blended…
When you’re picking up dog poo in the backyard, it’s important not to look for the poo –it’s to look where you’re stepping. It’s just like life,
When some thing of ours breaks or gets destroyed, there’s usually two ways to look at it: The first way’s to look at it solely from our own blinkered point of view, to get fired up and pissed off, blame others and convince ourselves that yes, this is a big deal. The second way’s to think, ‘You know what… who really gives a flying…