Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 12: Who Has it Easier?

| October 12, 2017

Unless you haven’t been paying attention, or were born  to such privilege that you didn’t have to, you will at least by now have come to the suspicion that the world is not fair, and all people are not created equal. All that stuff about rights to free expression, and all people being “created” equal […]

Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 11: The Camille Flammarion Curse

| October 11, 2017

If you’re unfamiliar with films like The Blair With Project, and Trollhunter, or haven’t even heard of them, then I’m at a loss to explain how you got here. Notwithstanding that, let’s soldier on together, and we’re glad to have you. While I’m not a particular fan of the faux documentary genre in general, I […]

Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 10: Red

| October 10, 2017

“Fairy Tales, as they were originally written, weren’t the saccharine offal children who don’t belong to Mrs. LFM and me, or a few notable Friends, grew (or are growing) up with. They were intended to convey valuable life lessons to the offspring of people who lived a lot closer to reality than most in the […]

Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 8: Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

| October 8, 2017

“We have everything to fear including fear itself, and the bad news hasn’t yet hit, I don’t think. You’re running into a losing struggle. No one has ever beaten these odds. I’ve looked up ahead, or if you prefer, down the road. I know what’s coming. I know no one beats these odds, and it’s […]

Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 4: Changing Batteries

| October 4, 2017

Artificial intelligence is a field that offers opportunities both for wondrous good and ultimate evil, for as man strives as a god to create sentience in his own image, much of known history and current reality is at risk of sacrifice upon the altar of wishful thinking. That being said, tonight’s Dark Sentiment was brought […]

Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 1: A Greeting from your Favourite Reaper

| October 1, 2017

“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. “The […]

A Song of Fungal Wisdom

| August 27, 2017

Even the simplest things in Nature have lessons to teach, and indeed the very Profundity of Simplicity may be the greatest of them all. Today is a perfect day to read this poem, and then meditate on what it says during a mindful walk in the woods. A Song of Fungal Wisdom By LFM The […]

The Goode Fyght — Chapter the Seventh

| August 7, 2017

Welcome back fellow Traveller to this chapter of The Goode Fyght where today we will begin our look at energy and the economics of action as they apply to aging. Right up until you die, you will find that your only option is to keep getting older, just as Nature intended. Some try to pretend […]

The Goode Fyght — Chapter the Sixth

| July 16, 2017

“Next time we’ll begin looking at these in concert with the other concepts I’ve introduced in previous chapters, as they are being delivered by a selection of Teachers, and the motivations of students who seek them out.” ~ The Goode Fyght — Chapter the Fifth Welcome back to the fireside Goode and Worthy Reader. Please […]

The Point of it All

| June 18, 2017

I first met feisty grappler Lukas William Whynacht, second in line to the Chieftainship of Clan LFM, two years ago today, under joyous although more formal and less than relaxing conditions where neither a Man nor his Wife could order a decent drink to toast a bairn’s arrival. It’s also Father’s Day, Goode Reader, as […]