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  • David Mulhern 1:30 pm on September 14th Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Have you ever written a letter to Santa? When you were young and you truly believed.
    Perhaps, if you are like me or my friend Mark, there was always a twinge of doubt; tiny but apparent.

    That feeling – that belief – that place your mind took you when you didn’t know enough not to believe – that is your beliefus-maximus.

    If you actually wrote a letter to Santa, that physical action shows your ability to believe is greater than others.

    If you said “Screw that.” like Mark or I probably did, your beliefus-maximus is lower than the rest.

    Maybe, no matter what you believe in, you are destined to only be able to believe it up to a certain point.

    I think that is why there were armed guards blocking the door when Jim Jones asked his followers to drink the poisonous kool-aid. He knew some of them would run for the door.
    I wish you could buy a beliefus-maximus upgrade at Fry’s Electronics.

    I looked, but the guy said they “didn’t have one.”

    Of course, I said “No, I mean do you have any other ones” – I say as I’m holding one in front of his face.

    I swear those guys at Fry’s Electronics have no freaking idea how to help a person find something. If they say they don’t have it – look – it’s probably there.

     

    • Katy 8:48 pm on September 17th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I think that for me, my ‘beliefus-maximus’ is running flat-out to take a flying leap over all of our world’s ‘known’ (looking down as I leap to acknowledge these things) and landing on the other side of this jumble of confusion to what I have come to know about God. The more experience, exercise, and practice I have with taking this leap determines if I land on those things I know about God, or if I end up plunging headlong into the world’s ‘known’.
      Whatsoever we pray for, let us also work for it – (somewhere in the Bible)

      Bart -
      “eat my shorts”, Fry’s Electronics

    • Mark McCowen 2:28 am on September 18th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I’m trying to get my beliefus-maximus so small I can drown it in a bathtub.

      Just because a person believes in something that doesn’t necessarily make it true. What if I believe in zombies? Do zombies exist? What if I took actions according to that belief?

      I guess my rule is to stick to what you can know with near certainty (I say near certainty since we can’t know anything absolutely) and disregard the rest or at least realize that you’re dealing in probabilities, guesses, or just gambling.

      Wow. That was really hard to explain. I guess it’s because I see a difference between belief and knowledge.

    • tom 1:01 pm on September 19th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      but santa wrote me back!

    • steph 6:39 am on September 20th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i expected to see helivideos by now. did you get it stuck on the roof?

    • Simon 8:09 am on September 28th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hi David, would it be possible to contac you via email? I can’t seem to find one that actually works.

  • David Mulhern 10:32 am on September 10th Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    I’m glad we orbit a star.
    Imagine this planet flying through space in no particular direction. Eventually we would slowly fly towards a star. Our world would slowly get brighter and brighter as the years pass until we leave it behind and seek out another one.

    Some generations would never know its warmth. Some generations would never know the night sky.

    Our star is so brilliant. From where we sit we can reach up and feel it. If we were on to the next closest planet, the sun’s brilliance would consume us and turn our bodies to ash.

    Each little white dot at night hints at this power.

    I think certain people are like that.
    Their smile and a little glimmer in their eyes hints at an infinite brilliance inside.

    You feel their warmth as you near them.
    These stars.

    Haha. “Stars.” – duh! Sorry folks for waisting your time.

     

  • David Mulhern 1:05 am on September 9th Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    If you want to tell your children a little story to illustrate the meaning of life, you are in luck. I have made this story. I call it “The Man, the Bear and the Unexpected Guest.” So enjoy this little tale my friends.

    The Man

    In Alaska on a tiny lush island stands a man wearing an old worn thick plaid shirt. He is in front of a cabin made of the thickest trees from the deepest parts of the forest. He watches the icy arctic water crash against the black pebbled beach. The fresh northern air fills his lungs.

    He notices a large brown bear slowly making its way up a small stream behind the cabin.

    The bear walks up to him and begins to talk. This is where our story begins.

    (More …)

     

    • Mark McCowen 12:40 am on September 11th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Great story, David! The whole time I was expecting some philosophical ending but then you turned it around and threw something completely different at me. To be honest, I guess you could say it still had a philosophical ending just not the one I was thinking. Cool. Original. Creative.

      I would love to see you post more stories. I’ve had a hard time getting people to read my stuff even if it’s 5 pages. People are a little more patient when it comes to the visual arts. I guess they don’t understand how much time you put into a story even if it’s short. Thanks for sharing.

    • David Mulhern 10:06 am on September 11th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Haha – hey buddy. Thank you! I have been inspired lately – I’ve been reading through your story about dreaming and it is really sweet – Remember that park we called the “wonderpark” – well I go there to do stuff. Last night I fell asleep in the park working – woke up sweating and happy. Now I’m getting breakfast and working from Wildflower

  • David Mulhern 6:05 pm on September 8th Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Sometimes life seems like a story. It doesn’t seem like it is “happening” rather it seems more like a story is unfolding.

    Sometimes it doesn’t.

    But remembering all the storybook moments helps me feel like I’m in the middle of an interesting unfinished story.

    Sometimes when magic moments fall out of the sky it seems I am about to walk into a pre-determined situation designed to change me.

    Like a dream.

     

  • David Mulhern 6:03 pm on September 8th Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Various events in my life have inspired me to get to make some huge changes to improve my health over the next six months.

    I have been inspired.

    I will make various changes each week and see which has the greatest affect.

    Week One

    This week’s changes:
    1. Run or walk 3 miles every day.
    2. Cut down sugar 50 percent

    Well I am at .61 miles so far. I’m standing on a treadmill briskly walking.. Sweating. It feels good to move. I’m so freaking sedentary.

    You know how I was finally able to start? I became okay with sweating. I’ve been outside writing a lot lately, drenched in sweat after hours under this hot summer sun. After I became okay with that, I realized I could begin.

    A few weeks ago I became a better person inside, now it is time to become a better person outside. I think sweating is one of the most important parts of that bettering process.

    I hope in six months these changes improve my body and mind.

     

    • Mark McCowen 11:20 pm on September 8th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I’ve never really had a problem with sugars. My real problem is cheese. I love cheese. Put cheese on a fat man’s stomach and I’ll eat it, especially if it’s melted.

    • David Mulhern 1:22 am on September 9th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Haha! Me too! I just bought some extra sharp chedder and I will be eating that. Maybe I’ll never cut out cheese – what’s the point of living then?

  • David Mulhern 4:48 am on September 3rd Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

     

    • Mark McCowen 11:26 pm on September 8th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I love the new additions that you’ve added. I’m starting to think that writing is my favorite art. Photography is great but I feel that writing is more expressive.

    • David Mulhern 1:35 am on September 9th Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Haha! Thanks man. I’m convinced reading something that has been written can change a person more than any other form of communication (next to talking with them)

    • Ian 12:04 pm on September 21st Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i can see the perfect intro to a classic novel. now my only concern is where are these machines located? down the rabbit hole mr. mulhern goes….

  • David Mulhern 12:10 am on September 2nd Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Tonight, I was writing some stuff down at the park – the lightning was pretty impressive! I captured a few pictures of my car and where I was working.

     

    • tom 12:26 pm on September 2nd Permalink | Log in to Reply

      amazing.

    • john 2:44 pm on September 2nd Permalink | Log in to Reply

      looks like it should be in some crazy volvo commercial or have “Rockford Fosgate” across the top

    • Ian 10:08 pm on September 2nd Permalink | Log in to Reply

      electrifying! yuk yuk

    • craig 11:02 pm on September 3rd Permalink | Log in to Reply

      those are sweet! at first glance i thought that blurry tree branch thingy was smoke coming from your laptop like it might’ve gotten struck by lightning or something

  • David Mulhern 6:39 am on September 1st Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    so a year is our earth completing a full circle around our star. And a day is planet rotating, giving us a complete 360 degree view of our universe. One of these view we call day because it is really bright. And night is our view of the infinate nothingness in our universe.

    Months, hours, minutes and seconds are just imagined dividers between these two actual events.

    Our star orbits around the center of our galaxy. We move one mile around the Galaxy in less than 1/100th of a second.

    The universe itself is moving at a speed of several hundred miles per second.

    In other words we are constantly spinning and flying through space.

    Today, I have completed twenty-nine trips around our star..

     

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