December 7

No snow accumulation nor ice but looking through the window dreariness abounds. When you smile the world smiles with you but when the world floods you with ugly, it engenders a huge challenge to overpower that sucking influence enough to don a properly thick gloom repelling cloak of happy. Desire is the determining factor. You can be however you want to be just by citing the DDD's with an I believe attitude then doing it. 'Dammit, that is what I Desire and I'm Determined to see it so!'

If you think about it absolutely everything in the world, absolutely everything, is all there only in your head. What you see, what you hear, what you feel, I'm saying there is not such a thing as an is, for me or for you, that will ever be or has ever been, if it doesn't come from our heads. A ghost may actually stay near you, even watch TV with you but you will never ever know unless something prompts such in your head. So with that I'd say it isn't! ................ Or is it?

I rest my case. As I read it over I couldn't help but wonder where all that crap came from then I realized, from my stupid head of course.

The human consciousness originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. A chief activity is in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.~Gathered