Last night, I laid in Savasana trying to recite the mantra I've heard from some yogi or another: I am nothing. I am everything. But, as I lay there in my puddle of sweat, listening to the chillout-dubstep meant for not-listening, it occurred to me: I am not nothing, and neither...
I've thought about the stars light years away looking down at me, us, and our worried minds, our concerns of who and what and how other people see us and the stars, billions of years old, who watch every life that has ever been or ever will be, they sadly smile with pity. As I worry...
Some moments of my life are effortless and rewarding, the way it is for a surfer who catches a wave or when a musician is really tight in the pocket. Others seem to be pulled slowly and painfully from me, like unwrapping barbed wire from...
What is hope? Driving home this morning from an underwhelming appointment with a potential publisher, I found myself asking this question. This drive was the absolute opposite of the one I'd made only an hour earlier. Before, I'd been giddy with excitement. The email had plainly...
Hello friends, If you're reading this, it means one of two things: you follow this warehouse of thoughts and feelings because you find some sort of value in it, or this is your first time browsing my website in which case you've been led here by...
What does a cluttered desk say about a person? This is an age-old discussion, one that has two very distinct sides with little middle-ground. A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind, the saying goes. I look around my home, my office and my vehicle, and I notice...
I was only a writer for so long without knowing why and how it would make me happy but expressing myself was relief I had something to say and I didn't know if anyone wanted to hear it or if it could help but I knew I felt better when I did And...
Why are we attracted to people? Romantically? Platonic attraction? We sense something that we really like. We want that quality and want to be around that person because of it. Yet, relationships frequently fail. Do we ever actually obtain the qualities that we desire in others? It depends...
The ease with which we forget our own effectiveness is underwhelmingly overwhelming. For some reason, there's an innate ability in humans to overlook the effects we have on the people around us. It's probably rooted in our genetics: if something doesn't have an immediate effect on...
While it's still fresh, I move on to step 2. Notice step 1. There's a story of two men who lead separate lives but whose stories intertwine closely. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="236"] maybe they were muppets[/caption] There was one man, completely healthy and fully functional, who woke up...