personal blog since 2004
The audio blog of Soulcruzer aka Clay Lowe.
As we usher in another June, we find ourselves once again amidst #audiomo – a month-long celebration and challenge of harnessing audio as a medium for creative self-expression. I eagerly anticipate immersing myself in the wealth of #audiomo entries this year, ready to be inspired by the cool, diverse audio content that’s in store.
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My mother belongs to the fear I was needing, interlocking arms with white bags. Today has everything I need – wet clothes, pillowcases, liquor, eyelashes, and chemicals. Excuse the scars. Ducking, jumping, terrible things I was mid-air like a heavy meal. You save people too scared to fall from the...
“The danger of overstimulation and external voices will erode one’s core and necessitate the natural desire to compare and copy, which leads to living life from an “outside-in” point of view. I believe your lifestyle can never reproduce the joy and satisfaction that is associated with the opposite.” Dr. Flo...
Your coffee contemplation today: “In a mutually interdependent world, none of us has absolute control over everything we choose to do. You are either being influenced by others or exerting influence simply by being who you are.” I think it’s a curious exercise to reflect on who you’re being influenced...
I felt a bit scrappy this morning along with an incredible urge to walk around naked. There must have been something in my coffee to trigger a primal reaction. Having watched Hamilton over the weekend, I now have the soundtrack on repeat in Spotify. Particularly the lead track Alexander Hamilton,...
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we share our thoughts on Don Miguel Ruiz’s thoughtful book, The Four Agreements. I’ve read the book several times now. Sarah is on her first pass of the book. I return to from time to time because the messages are simple and sound....
Excited to have as my guest host, Victoria James, founder of Mindflowers, in the studio with us to talk about self-importance and how mastering it will boost your authentic happiness by a factor of 10.
Let’s play a game… Battleground God – Do your beliefs about religion and god stand up to philosophical scrutiny? Begin
I’m slowing beginning to re-emerge from my wounded cocoon. Mobility in my right hand is edging along nicely, range of motion increasing each day since my release from the day ward. Of course I want to charge ahead like a mad bull, but I’ve purposefully kept the breaks on to...
“The point of uniforms is to make everything outwardly the same and, if possible, by a knock-on psychological effect inwardly the same too.” – from Journeys of an Underground Philosopher I reject conformity, yet I conform every day. How can you resist the culture of conformity that we are born...
Stealing from Hermann Hesse… He wrote that each person has only one genuine vocation and that is to find the way to themselves, to discover their own destiny – not an arbitrary one – and live it out wholly and resolutely within themselves. Everything else says Hesse, is only a...
Part 1 – Gripping us by the throat Part 2 – a meditation Part 3 – As if it was your last
“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others — the living — are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then...
The haunting voices in Pink Floyd’s song, Bring The Boys Back Home, are echoing in my mind this morning: wrong, do it again time to go are you feeling ok? there’s a man answering, but he keeps hanging up is there anybody out there? Ok, yeah, a weird first thought...
And hopefully it’s not just Game of Thrones! …not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Incremental change… is a process that adjusts the status quo via minor changes. Think of Incremental change as a series of small steps, with no single step taking up too much time. I know there are some folks out there who argue for radical change, but I think that sometimes...
(1) That’s right, nobody is coming to rescue you. I have to remind myself of that from time to time. It means, if you want to change your situation, if you want to make life work for you, then you have to turn inward and draw from your internal resources....
Beautiful morning for a walk – blue skies, sun, birds singing and all of that. On my mind this morning was a simple formula I use to keep me on the success path. Much love, Clay
