Author: operator

  • Hello world!

    Welcome to mylesdeep. More content coming soon, including a backfill from past musings. Onward, and upward!

  • Not Right or Left, RIGHT or WRONG

    This is not a Right or Left issue, it is a RIGHT or WRONG issue. And for us moderates in the middle, y’all on the extreme right and the extreme left are BOTH INSANE. As we are an advanced civilization, we have evolved past primitive forms of rule. Rather than develop individuals, we develop systems. […]

  • Just Let It Go

    Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it. ~ Unknown

  • Two Wolves

  • Keep Going

    It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius

  • An Additional Perspective on Suicide

    This is tragic, and my heart goes out to the families and friends of the recent suicide victims. I would no less like to offer an additional perspective on suicide. Teasing/bullying has been around since bigger Neanderthals picked on smaller ones, and while we have become more intelligent, our teasing has only become more brutal […]

  • No Peace Without Hope

    …how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for! There can be no peace without hope. ~ Albert Camus

  • The Best and Worst of Times

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…in short, the period was so far like the present period…. ~ Charles Dickens

  • Founded in Feeling

    Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ~ William James

  • The Poet Names the Gods

    The poet names the gods, and names all the things in that which they are. This naming does not consist merely in something already known being supplied with a name; it is rather that when the poet speaks the essential word, the existent is by this naming nominated as what it is. So it becomes […]