The Walk Back Home

In response to someone arguing against the Taoist practice of semen retention, citing the oft-heard but never-explained Western understanding of the phenomenon: "you gotta clean out the pipes, or it's like, bad for you." That's the standard refute for the branch of Taoist sexual kung fu, an art and practice that has been passed down over millennia and filled the pages of numerous textbooks. Well I mean when you think of it it's actually quite logical if you can, for a moment, dip your metaphorical toes into the metaphysical world. What's the ultimate act of creation for a human being? Pro creation - making another human being. For that to occur, the creative juices need to be flowing. Literally. If they aren't, then Jimmy ain't never getting a little brother. On a personal level, creative juices need to flow within oneself. People think the two things are separate - sexuall procreation and personal imaginative / artistic creation - but they really aren...

Because in a lot of sense we are. This needs to be prefaced by the fact that homelessness is  hard work.  If you strip down the scheduling, employment hierarchy, and other arbitrary components of what encompass a “job,” what you’re left with is  work:  exerting effort to manipulate and create change in the world around you. Homelessness is a lot of work. From sunup to sundown you’re carrying either a 50+ lb hiking backpack or pushing a shopping cart laden with all your possessions. Simple travel becomes a work of creativity and high-intensity interval training. Even trying to walk a shopping cart with 200+ pounds (say, you and your partner’s backpacks, a tent, several blankets, some clothes, a stove, a bit of food, and some goods you picked up in hopes of selling) onto the sidewalk from the regular wheelchair on-ramp usually causes it to hitch on the small bump. If you’re alone that means you have to push down on the bottom bar with one foot, leverage the shopping ca...