@winstonalden

## Are you uncomfortable when someone waits on you? It's something most people don't seem to understand: my discomfort with eating at restaurants, going to hotels. Getting a hair…

## The last time we -- or anyone -- saw these bugs, it was 17 years ago. That was 2008. ![CicadaWallpaper.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/winstonalden/23xVRcDsjmk1m…

### Established rituals are a cornerstone of any successful culture. Behaviors that go beyond habits, the things we do without question. Prayers before bedtime. Church on Sunday.…

### I got to take a little walk around Boston. It was the last day of the week, the last day of work before vacation. The boss said, “Things are quiet enough. You should head off…

## Whenever I come back to writing, I start with some kind of journal. But when I go through my old journals, I start to consider that journaling might be toxic. I’m tired of be…

## About six months ago, an old friend (and former boss) *gave* me a car! It's a 2006 Saab 9-5. Standard shift. 2.3 liter Turbo engine. Sunroof! It's a great car for a midlife …

## I wrote before about the growing theme in SF that [we aren’t meant to explore the universe](https://peakd.com/books/@winstonalden/despair-versus-reality-in-science-fiction-and-l…

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## This Stable Diffusion AI art generation thingy is seriously the most fun thing I've ever done on a computer. You can find plenty of articles about it floating around. Go googl…

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; ![01855-2493431609-Let us go then, you and I,_When the evening is …

## The way we interact with stories in video games is a lot more intense than with literature. ![thebatman.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/winstonalden/48RsQx6LriyFo…

## Getting drunk alone in nature was the closest I've come to religious experience. Watching the sky darken and the stars come out. I was walking along the power lines and then c…

## Do things really have to happen? Can’t we just sit and listen to the music? (Does it all have to revolve around plot?) ![PrayMessageBus.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/pea…

 **Clio didn't hesitate to…

###### *Today, a bit of a character sketch, a bit of a free-write. Maybe it'll develop into something bigger. Energy is fleeting and we share what we have when we have it.* *** #…

When I'm not busy [working](https://peakd.com/life/@winstonalden/every-day-is-a-perfect-day-living-the-perfect-routine-part-3), or [running in circles around my neighborhood](https…

 ## I had a religious awakeni…

## There's this woman I keep seeing around the train station. She has raven hair, porcelain skin, deep piercing eyes. She's about a foot shorter than me. I know a very few thing…

## I'm sick of writing in the first person. All these journal entries that sound the same. I pick up a pen and scribble for a while and think, "Why the fuck would anyone give a s…

## One of the most interesting bits of propaganda to come out of the past several years is this idea that the common man is not fit to think for himself. We have dubiously funded…