The Gas Station Observatory is the brainchild of The Gentleman and The Scholar, an installation grounded on the pursuit of our best selves. We lost ourselves in the quicksand of fear and found safety in our inability to take responsibility for our lives. This is a place to share the rambling road we’re all on as we try to figure out how to use our maps.
The overwhelming majority of people today are assailed by choices wherever they turn. How someone wants their coffee, their clothes, their love life, every aspect of an outward life can be customized. We equate these choices with love–the more specific the more meaningful. In fact, focusing on the customization of everything is what some might…
Last post I talked about the shadow and how common it is to do something that keeps you in the position you’re in, but be determinedly unconscious of it. The most common (and often substantial) problems in our lives are also the hardest to see, the largest elephants are somehow the most stealthy. Our elephants…
When I was a kid, my favorite book was called The monster at the end of the book. It was a Sesame Street book, and the premise is that Grover is deathly afraid of the monster at the end of the book. So every page he pours cement, sets wood, pastes glue, does anything he…
Welcome to The Gas Station Observatory! Today is our grand opening! So come on in check out the site. Stay awhile read the first article with the Scholar summing up his 2018, or check out the Ground Floor to look at our writings and what we recommend. Learn about your resident Gentleman and Scholar Us…
Song Recommend “Hangin Around The Observatory” By John Hiatt I feel it is only apt that our first weekly music recommendation is “Hangin Around The Observatory” by John Hiatt. This particular track played a part in the inspiration of this blog and future podcast. The song itself, from the album of the same name, which…
When you look back at your life, there will be some years that are more important than others, that’s just how things work. 2018 was one of those years. Not because it was awesome, but because it was awesome: extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear. This year was a doozy. 2018…