Steve Jobs led an inspirational life full of passion and creative brilliance. I won't lie. I am a huge admirer. His vision and core values were a light in a world bedeviled by speed, noise, and change. His flaws and [...]
A risk-free world is a very dull world, one from which we are apt to learn little of consequence. -Geerat Vermeij Photo by Ian Froome on Unsplash
When I am in flow, I cannot hear my ego. Each breath in flow is one in love.
Hope was declared dead today or so the headlines read, and I read those headlines in spite of myself for if hope was dead, why read further for reading further would infer hope was alive, and if hope was alive, [...]
Bars need neon, clothing stores need novelty, restaurants need food...books only need a time worn sign. Photo by César Viteri on Unsplash
I love a good rabbit hole which means I love a good walkabout through and around a good open-ended question. It always comes back to the fantastical den of Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole and the peculiar round of logic [...]
I miss my Grandmother. I miss her soft voice, her eyes that twinkled with mischief, her quiet love. When I'm with family, I bake her Crusty Coconut Pie and she is with me. There is rarely a holiday when this [...]
Girl hitches a pin to the torn and tattered frock surrendered to dance upon a dry fall breeze. She tenders the clothesline across the yard filled with the rusting cadavers of a decade. A toaster from her mother's marriage lays [...]
“You are a dark and dirty child.” The whispered words floated but gained speed and slammed through me. Burning like burrowed chiggers. I never knew why she hated me. Shy and sensitive to all external stimuli, I only wanted to [...]
Be fearless in your quest for meaning.