The Sky Cave

the best part of my year was knowing that i would get to see you at the end of it. 

this isn’t real. 

I have a long standing belief that there isn’t a person on the planet with enough of a sample size to make any kind of generalization about people. 

We hear facts about people all the time. 

“People are tired of 3D at the movies”

“People love monkey’s and midgets”

“People don’t like pesto as much as marinara”

I don’t know about you, but I know about 200 people. Total. My whole life. I once read a science fact that the most amount of people the human brain can remember is 150, so there’s that as well. No one is qualified to generalize seven billion people. Especially because the reason you have your sample size in the first place is that the people you have met are a whole lot like you. Now, I’m not talking about “like you” like friends and family. I mean a similar socio-economic stature and geographic location. That’s who we know. People like ourselves.

For the most part.

Or not.

I don’t know.
Because I don’t know that many people. 

Which brings me to the point of this post: People are not consumed by screens. 

You are.

I am. 

But people are not. 

I have been reading a lot of articles about what staring at a screen all day at work does to your health, and what it’s doing to child development, and what it’s doing to our ability to socially interact with one another. 

And it’s all bullshit.

Only 30 percent of the world population has used the internet. Of that 30 percent, how many are sitting at a desk for their job with that kind of time to kill? Think about it. Doctor’s, farmer’s, teachers, laborers, you name it. They don’t sit at a desk like you and me. I imagine the percentage of the United States work force that has the freedom to use the internet all day is well under five percent. 

And it’s within that five percent that the reality of this new situation has been completely skewed. It’s that five percent that creates ninety percent of all the content on the web. It’s that five percent that is soaking up and rebroadcasting the idea that all people spend all day arching their back in front of a screen and forgetting how to actually connect with one another. 

It’s a self-perpetuating lie because the slim percentage of content creators are the same people reading it. “It must be true for everyone, because I am that way!” we say.

The internet is a mirror in a small room. 

Go surfing. 

Cook dinner.

Call a friend. 

The world is so much cooler than the internet will ever be. 

trick or what

zen and the art of drinking. 

There was a man stranded on an island. 

His only tools were time and a shovel. 

So he decided to try to make his island bigger. 

He dug each day, in knee-deep water, piling more sand onto his little home. 

And each day the ocean took back what was rightfully hers.

But he kept digging each day.

Even in knowing that the ocean would eventually take her land back.

He didn’t care.

Because all he had was time. 

And a shovel. 

People Are Crazy

-or-

The world’s largest plastic Jesus, just outside San Miguel Mexico on the way home from the most soulful crusade of the last 27 years. 

Long Live Joe. 

you are what you see.