Standing in the middle of the silent highway I watched the moon, slowly appear over the horizon only to vanish again into the cloudy sky.  Big, full, vivacious, and yet so easily hidden behind the mists of the evening.  Birds sang.  Something rustled in the grasses.  Far away emergency lights flashed silently.  Someone had died there an hour before.  Someone else had died over that hill 2 days before.  And another over that hill, and another beyond that mountain, and another in that lake, and another in that car.  So much death …

“Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of living in a physical or spiritual form for an infinite or inconceivably vast length of time.”
Fitting I’d say, that I sit here on my 28th birthday and contemplate a book I finished two weeks ago Interview With the Vampire and the odd circumstances that led to me watching half the movie a week ago and the other half tonight. 
Vampires have always held deep magic for me, sexy, dark, powerful creatures that live forever and fly around with the world as their kingdom. 
The …

 
It’s been awhile, and there is a lot bouncing around inside. I’ve got an Ignite experience to process and share, and a intriguing adventure to postulate on, as well as a really amazing effort beginning to bring together an incredible slacklining community. But right now a death is on my mind, but not so much the death, but the life experience surrounding that event.
 
Many of you know me as a free spirit launching forward in the universe, have spent time with me dancing, running through the forest, exploring the inner …

 
Someone’s life worth of tears covers my cheeks as I sit on a grassy hill looking at the stars. The breeze rushes through my thin clothing alternating between warm and chilly as I alternate between sobbing and breathing. A satellite crosses near a partially full moon as I mentally compare it to a partially lived life, bright and wonderful for what it is, but incomplete none the less.
 
Processing suicide is really hard and full of sudden emotion. I’m crippled by love one moment and totally pissed off the next. …

I sit here at work waiting for the techs to finish installing wheels on our Thermal Enclosure Door, and Software to start testing the hexapod move program, so I can watch cables on the Test Stand and make sure nothing get’s snagged.  wait… wait… wait…
The duality of my task here and my adrenaline filled body is slightly maddening.  I feel like running up a mountain or jumping out of a plane, and yet here I sit and wait, and write…