Brain farts
Fragment #20
Here I sit broken hearted, tried to poo but only farted!
Now I could write a detailed missive about how awful it is to be suffering a crisis of clarity and meaning. When I’m done, I’d bury it behind a gated wall like treasure or something.
An inability to answer simple questions is not the issue. It’s that I keep tripping over all the logs and building materials in asking them.
Let me sit at this table for a spell. Allow the coffee to temper and breath to weave with the twirling steam and to consider why I would waste so much time writing nothing of meaning at all.
Dali wrote a book about farts ))
Beautiful one
If you look at the relationship between drinking coffee and the health benefits, they are non-negotiably, astronomically impressive. Drinking coffee seems to be a very good thing. Now again, it's dose dependent. Once you get past about four cups of coffee, then it goes in the opposite direction. It's not a good thing. And if you look at that list, and it is quite a list of health benefits and disease de-risking that drinking coffee provides, and you compare that to all of the health benefits that sleep provides, it's a remarkable overlap. So people were saying to me, how do you square that circle? Because that doesn't make any sense. Well, if you look at the data, the reason that drinking coffee is so beneficial is because the coffee bean itself contains a whopping dose of antioxidants. And because in the Western world we're so deficient in our dietary intake of antioxidants, this one thing, the coffee bean, has been asked to carry the herculean weight of all of our antioxidant needs. And therefore that's why drinking coffee has such a health predictive signal in the literature. Case in point, if you look at decaffeinated coffee, has almost the same health benefits. So it's not the caffeine, it's the antioxidants in the coffee bean itself. So again, with all of these things, with alcohol and caffeine, I am just a scientist. I have no right to tell anyone how to live their life. And I don't want to be the healthiest person in the graveyard either. Life is to be lived. For goodness sake, live a little bit. - Matthew Walker