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Home is a Small Place, a Dot on the Globe, Especially the More You Travel.

January 11, 2023 By paulosophia in Uncategorized Tags: my life

Home is a small place, a dot on the globe, especially the more you travel. Let me explain.

I’m in Northern New Mexico for a while. In a remote oasis, 50 acres with streams and ponds and trees, tucked between a number of snowcapped mountains, one being the renowned Cerro Pedernal. It’s rural out here. But there are some gems given the beauty of this kind of rural topography. The great late artist Georgia O’Keeffe, perhaps the most influential female artist of the past century, left her home in New York to retire here. Retire in the sense of allowing the raw and rugged landscape to shape her art, shape her mind, shape her soul. New York City is big, the biggest city in the world some say. Northern New Mexico? A different kind of expanse, and appeal. Arthur Newton Pack — a wealthy American naturalist and writer living during the early 20th century founded the American Nature Association and the periodical Nature Magazine. He understood, and called this area “the best place in the world.”

I’m from Southern California, just south of Los Angeles. Orange County. Born and raised. “Home” has so much to offer, the least not being its beautiful beaches, Los Angeles up the freeway, and Holywood. Until I moved to London, where I lived for a few years. That new home in England was large also, in a different kind of way. Cape Town South Africa has a largeness about it, Tokyo in many ways, too.

I had previously thought there was nothing like Orange County — actually, that it was the best place in the country to live. But the more we travel the more we come to realize that home can be nice and all, but the world is a very big place, and home, wherever it is, is always a dot on a map. And we always tend to think our thing is the best thing.

 

 

I took this shot during yesterday’s drive with my Leica q2. No filters or anything here. I pulled my old Land Rover Discovery II to the side of a very long and very remote two-lane highway. I actually left the car running for some reason. Climbed through a barbed wire fence. And took a dozen or so shots in that kind of silence — the kind where only the wind is heard and you feel really alone and small.

New Mexico in my mind is one of the most underrated states in the country.

Home is a small place, a dot on the globe, especially the more you travel.

I Make New Year’s Resolutions. Plural. You Should Too.

January 1, 2023 By paulosophia in Uncategorized Tags: my life, selfcare

 

I never make a new year’s resolution. I make new year’s resolutions. Plural. And don’t usually give up anything. I prefer adding things. Over the years it’s been writing, learning about the Ottoman Empire, photography, Greek cooking, Lebanese cooking, French cooking, learning Arabic, Russian history, yoga and dozens of other new ventures.

In 2016 I had 33 new year’s resolutions. I posted them. At the end of the year, I gave myself a grade for each one.

 

 

The more resolutions you have, the better the chance of achieving one or two or more of them. You improve your odds of getting something done, learning something new.

Sometimes you end up planting a seed in your mind by failing at a resolution. That year, in 2016, Resolution #18 was “Begin video posts even though I don’t have the technology to make them professional.”  Nothing much happened. But seven years later — this year — voila!

This year I’m committing to just one. I guess you could say it’s two, but they are opposite sides of the same coin.

It’s about going deeper as a human. That’s my resolution for 2023 — to stretch myself, broaden my aptitudes, mentally and spiritually. Or, if you will, head and heart.

If things go as planned, I will end 2023 smarter, sharper, more knowledgeable, wiser. AND, kinder, more caring, more aware, more giving to others, spiritually grounded.

Tomorrow I will talk more about my resolution in an Instagram reel, and a longer YouTube video. I’d love for you to join me in going deeper in 2023. And let me know how it goes.

Happy new year!

My Friend Just Lost His Brother (in a way)

December 14, 2022 By paulosophia in Uncategorized Tags: family, politics, relationships, religion

 

My friend just lost his brother. But his brother didn’t die.

It was an argument. Over politics and science.

They had argued before. For years. I won’t go into which one is on the left and which one is on the right. When it comes to a severed relationship, I’m not sure that matters. I’m not sure these distinctions of left/right, liberal/conservative, anti-trump/pro-trump, anti-vax/pro-vax — none if it matters.

I’m not even sure in these cases that truth really matters (and those of you that know me know I don’t say that often).

Nothing matters more than relationships. Especially with family. My Dad always says, “Nothing matters more than La Familia.”).

He is right. After that, it’s friends.

I made this video earlier in the year. I had one goal: to help people navigate thorny relationships around politics, religion, and science.

I’ve had some great feedback. If you are looking at a precarious situation ahead, do take a listen. I don’t advocate for one side or the other.

My friend just lost his brother. And it reminded me of the video.

Take a watch below. I think it could help.

The Truth About Trauma, and Healing

December 1, 2022 By paulosophia in Uncategorized

 

The Nation’s Gravest And Greatest Health Crisis

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Former U.S. House of Representatives candidate. Writer. Activist for children of neglect, abuse, and abandonment. Politics junkie. Chess geek. INTP. Enneagram 5w4. Mediterranean cook. UCLA. Philosophy.

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Exposing the Reality of Evil: What to Do With Troublemakers. From serial killer to basic jerk. From basic troublemaker, failure to launch teen, to family problems kill all your happiness. 

A stigmatization of mental illness, social interaction, parenting challenges, problem children, and all the relationship advice in the world -- in this episode we draw on the wisdom of socrates

Join philosopher Paul Martin as he unpacks Exposing the Reality of Evil: What to Do With Troublemakers.

01:40 Why do they act that way?
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07:38 The anatomy of a scumbag
11:14 All those scumbags
13:36 The facade of choice
17:10 The solution to feeling crazy about others
18:01 Is vice simply ignorance?

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I never make a new year’s resolution. I make new I never make a new year’s resolution. I make new year’s resolutions. Plural. And don’t usually give up anything. I prefer adding things. Over the years it’s been writing, learning about the Ottoman Empire, photography, Greek cooking, Lebanese cooking, French cooking, learning Arabic, Russian history, hot yoga and dozens of other new ventures. 

In 2016 I had 33 new year’s resolutions. I posted them on my blog. At the end of the year I gave myself a grade for each one. The link to those posts are in my story. 

The more resolutions you have, the better the chance of achieving one or two or more of them. You improve your odds of getting something done, learning something new. 

Sometimes you end up planting a seed in your mind by failing at a resolution. That year, in 2016, Resolution #18 was “Begin video posts even though I don’t have the technology to make them professional.” Nothing much happened. But seven years later — this year — voila!

This year I’m committing to just one. I guess you could say it’s two but they are opposite sides of the same coin. 

It’s about going deeper as a human. That’s my resolution for 2023 — to stretch myself, broaden my aptitudes, mentally and spiritually. Or, if you will, head and heart.

If things go as planned, I will end 2023 smarter, sharper, more knowledgable, wiser. AND, kinder, more caring, more aware, more giving to others, spiritually grounded. 

Tomorrow I will talk more about my resolution in an Instagram reel, and a longer YouTube video. I’d love for you to join me in going deeper in 2023. And let me know how it goes. 

Happy new year!

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