One meaningful relationship – it seems to me that no man should die without one – but I don’t know how to do it, or with whom.   

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My Holy Grail – My Very Last Life Chapter 38

Funny how certain thoughts, loves, jokes, anecdotes, comments come to define certain sections of your life – I find myself increasingly bored with and rejecting the stuff that has defined me for so long.     My Very Last Life Chapter 37

Revisiting T.S. F*cking Elliot or, Retiring the 3 Jokes the Defined My Life

  I worked as a journalist all my life and learning how to write to include what is important taught me also to notice when the important things re being left out –   My Very Last Life Chapter 36    

I Hate All Activists – Chapter 36

I actually wanted to talk about how walking regularly in the open air has made me much happier and less depressed, even surprisingly so, but then I lost focus and went off on a wild rant about death. My Very Last Life Chapter 35

Walking for Happiness – Chapter 35

Sometimes I turn around and see my cat watching me … and I wonder: How long has she been doing that? And why? And what does she know that I don’t?   My Very Last Life Chapter 34   Check out the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/594216545   #WritingCommunity​​​ #writer​​​ #writerslife​​​ #writercommunity​​​​​ #book​​​ #readingcommunity​​​ #books​​​ #life #60 #meaning #purpose #philosophy #personal #introspection

Watching my cats watching me

I’ve begun writing them down …      

My Patterns of Self-Defeating Behavior – Chapter 33

Lanikai – the title of my autobiographical crime story … it’s about my life, but but I don’t know what it’s about.   

I Don't Know What My Own Book is About – Chapter 32

My 61st birthday – one year into my Very last Life and as per schedule I decide what I am going to do with the last 20 years (now 19) of my life ... the entire plan, the boozey party by myself on the bridge overlooking the highway at 5:45 in the morning, my list of Great Books, my prayer.   

1 down and 19 to Go – Chapter 31

One year down and 19 to go – next week I turn 61. So of course I sat down in the display furniture in the dark parking lot of Möbel Höffner and talked about it to myself. I was not alone. The first year of my Very Last Life has been lived and the goal I set for myself was to know within this year exactly what I was going to do with it.  Do I know? do I not? I sat in the dark empty nighted parking lot of Möbel Höffner and thought about it and spoke this podcast …  Epilogue!  … and on my way home I made two of the strangest, happiest encounters I’ve ever made in Berlin – so I added on an epilogue.  One of those encounters was a young man named Guri, an Indian Sikh – as far as I can tell – who is pursuing a rapping career. He was the other guy in the parking lot!  He was a nice guy and I highly recommend you support him - young men and women of ambition need our support – so watch, like and subscribe to his channel on YouTube: https://youtu.be/udMXWXhbqvw #WritingCommunity​​​ #writer​​​ #writerslife​​​ #writercommunity​​​ #writing​​​ #bookclub​​​ #book​​​ #readingcommunity​​​ #books​​​ #life #60 #verylastlife #meaning #purpose #philosophy #personal #introspection  

Nicht Falls on Möbel Höffner – Chapter 30

He is dead – the man me and Ralf have tried to make a video about for more than a year now is dead – Ziona his name, polygamy was his game and he played the game well. I doff my hat to the passing of a man who did what a man wanted to do. My Very last Life Chapter 29. 

The Sexiest Man in the World is Dead – My Very Last Life Chapter 29

Playing the brilliant game "The Last of Us II," I realized that modern feminism is really about women taking on the same masculine values that pretend to despise. Is the woman of the future a man with a vagina?   

Feminism is Capitalism for Girls

There was the Greatest Generation, then the Hippie Generation, then me. 

My Useless Generation – Chapter 27

A Hawaiian Highway at night, Bonnie Tyler singing Vampire Rock Opera, there is a time in everyone's life when they hold all of life in their hands like a basketball.    My Very last Life Chapter 26. 

Young Man with Hammer – Chapter 26

It’s Mother’s Day and I have to say the truth about my mother – she was a woman who did her fucking best and are you doing your fucking best?  My Very last Life Chapter 25.  

To My Dead on Mother's Day – Happy Mother's Day, Mom

The only refuge from depression and whiney self-pity is purpose – but there are two kinds of purpose - big metaphysical and small amygdala versions.

Viktor Frankl vs. The Cat

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