You tell me what this means:

The other day at Starbucks, I get a cup containing the following wisdom from no less than Bruce m.f.-ing Campbell:

"If you're worried about getting a job - or keeping one - start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it."

Then, today, after an interesting lunch hour with someone else potentially bitten by the bug, this link floats my way.

Two things I've found this morning that I like:

• A quotation from Samuel Smiles in an old copy of Men's Health in my bathroom: "We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

• This random link to a story about a man passing a woman on the street. It's a little long, but I like the tone.

Life is a strange thing.

Sometimes you go a long time without making any progress. Other times, the lessons it has for you come at you as fast and furious as Vin Diesel's career tanked. Every now and then you learn something so important you want to run around in the streets shouting, but you gotta remember to slow it down lest you seem like a crazy person.

Word of the day:

Confluence \KON-floo-un(t)s\ n.

1. A flowing or coming together; junction
2. The place where rivers, streams, etc. meet

Here's hoping this keeps on flowing for a long, long time.

A friend of mine once said to me, "Just remember to breathe out there." I've always thought this was good advice. It's particularly important (and something I would do well to remember) when you have something you want to say but not the means to say it.

Trying to do what I can to be a little more present.

Sometimes I don't even know where to begin.

I'm sure this will go down as the strangest time in my life, but let's hope that when I'm looking back on it, it's from the vantage point of someone who really knows himself.