Self-Aware 2
Recently, I took some time for myself, away from doggie, and from other people and walked outside. I brought my cell phone, aka music box, and noise cancelling headphones. I […]
The Cosmos of Bullshit
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.” – Anthony Liccione The Phrase: Everything Happens for a Reason — Does it? […]
REAL (Scary) Talk – June 2021 (probably not very linear)
Fair warning: this article speaks candidly about thoughts of suicide. If you find this may trigger you, please cease reading any further. Please reach out to a trusted friend, family […]
Day Four on LoA Trip (Part Two) – Bryce Canyon National Park – Zion National Park
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop Bryce Canyon National Park Ellie and I took off from Capitol Reef NP just before 1:00 p.m. We made it to the NPS sign before […]
Day Four on LoA Trip (Part One) – Canyonlands National Park – Capitol Reef National Park
Even far away, I know it’s her by the way her dark hair tangles with the wind and how she stands on the red rocks of the Carving. She’s more […]
Day Three on LoA Trip (Part Two) – Arches National Park – Canyonlands National Park
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. —Native American proverb Driving from Mesa Verde NP Day three was already full of adventuring. Ellie and […]
LoA Project Announcement
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation. — Plato The LoA Project is on temporary hiatus for now. I’ve embarked […]
Day Three on LoA Trip (Part One) – Mesa Verde National Park
I have learned that the point of life’s walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. ― Anasazi Foundation, […]
Day Two on LoA Trip (Part Two) – Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center | Great Sand Dunes National Park
They are a tribe, a family, a fierce confederacy. They are also an assembly of individual personalities, private desires and goals and inner lives largely unknown. They are a wolf […]
Day Two on LoA Trip (Part One) – Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, […]
Day One: Full Day on LoA Trip – Denver | Red Rocks Amphitheater | Garden of the Gods
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc Leaving the Hotel A night away from home in a ratty hotel. Broken tv, shower curtain rod hinging […]
Houston, We Have Lift-off! – Leaving the Midwest – Destination Colorado
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller The day is finally here. I will not clock into work for six weeks! It will be […]
T-Minus 1
Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? –― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star Well. The time is drawing […]
T-Minus 2
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! — Bob Marley What a busy day, in preparation. So many things to accomplish as the big trip […]
T-Minus 3
Sometimes, we have to run away in order to clear our heads and put ourselves together as best we can. The important thing, is that we return stronger than when […]
My Dog, My Rules!
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are […]
Those Pesky Words 2
“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past”. — Tyron Edwards This article is shamelessly dovetailing the writer’s high about the importance to […]
Words Mean the World to Me (and others of my ilk)
“My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you […]
Resent This! (But Forget About the Benefits You Once Received)
“Against [empiricism], which halts at [observable] phenomena—‘There are only facts’—I would say, no, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact ‘in itself’: perhaps […]
Screwing My Own Head on Straight (short post)
March 2021 has been a meager month of transformation for me. I lost someone of which I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Someone I would have […]
When Will Their Heads Burst?
Have you ever had people in your life that were associated with the worst kind of crazy and toxicity? During your honeymoon phases with these people, did the craziness register […]
Cynical Nihilism = entertainment 