Open yourself to all that fills you
It is the fifth of July in the United States… the day after “Independence day” and we should remember… what? That not everyone was independent when the declaration was conceived? That independence brought more problems than solutions? That the war raged on for some time after we said, “Yep… Step off George. We’ll take it…
It is June again. A month of growth, change, awareness, pride, and freedom. I’d like to discuss two directions that freedom and awareness can take. First up, Justice in June. In 2014 with the murders of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, I began to believe my general “color blindness” and “I’m an ally”…
Anxiety is something that many of use deal with on a day to day basis. I am anxious in social situations to the point of sometimes wanting to avoid them. Others in my life are anxious at the state of the world, the depravity of mankind, the economy, the political theatre we’re subjected to in…
Happy Star Wars day to all and My the Force be With You. It’s that time of year again when we revisit nostalgia and relive the misadventures of youth. I am happy to say that this May 4th I own a light sabre… maybe this time next year I’ll have another. I own very little…
It is with a heavy heart that I say, after five years of avoiding it, we have the covid-19 virus. Well, it’s a coronavirus of some variety, not sure how the variants work of if they have different names. Corona viruses have been around for-literally-ever. Horses have been getting it for a long time and…
Buddhists will tell you that the root of all suffering is desire. We live in a “want” society and we are given to confuse emotional states with desire. What’s more, we get “influencers” on all sides telling us what we should want, what we need to need, and what we can’t live without. I almost…
Social media is not about connection or keeping in touch. It’s about displaying ones life and getting gratification from external validation. It’s about validating people you don’t know by idolizing the small snapshot of the part of their lives they choose to show. It’s about building a social brand more than anything else and that’s exhausting.
I began, many moons ago, as a traveler in a strange new world.