We get attacked.  That’s a reality of life.  Somewhere, at some time, someone is going to come after us.  We’ve going to get cut, clobbered or end up with an assorted collection of contusions.  Sometimes the intentions of those that hurt us are misdirected, and at other times they’re completely intentional.  Sometimes the actions of others are the … [Read more...]

Some of us have very vivid imaginations.  We can effortlessly conjure up an endless litany of wildly creative concepts, mind-bending visions, and far-reaching theories that can eclipse the very imagination from which they were birthed.  We can be ingenious beyond the limits of our own ingenuity.  At times we find our own creations electrifying, but … [Read more...]

The issue in life is not how many times we get knocked down.  The issue in life is how many times we get back up.  And it’s not all that difficult to figure out that if the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we’ve been knocked down, then we’re spending our lives lying down.  Life will knock us down; … [Read more...]

“The End.”  There’s something definitively final about those two simple words. Those two, three letter words appear on the screen when the last words of the actors have fallen into an irretrievable silence and the screen has been swept barren of images.  They pen an irrefutable and final ‘period’ on the last page of novels beyond which sentences … [Read more...]

The pen is in our hands and the paper sits spread before us.  The words are waiting to be penned.  All of that’s there.  But in the writing what’s often missing is not the pen or the paper.  What’s missing is thought. We’re not thoughtful.  Rather, we’re reactive.  It’s the negative that drives our reactive responses.  When something negative … [Read more...]

We’re a terribly independent sort.  There’s a bedeviling, yet fundamentally inherent need to be free of anything that we might have to be subservient to, or pass any degree of credit off to.  We want to pen the lines as the single and sole author of the text. Yet, despite our convictions to the contrary we all worship something.  We all have our … [Read more...]

The issue in life is not how many times we get knocked down.  The issue in life is how many times we get back up.  And it’s not all that difficult to figure out that if the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we’ve been knocked down, then we’re spending our lives lying down.  Life will knock us down; … [Read more...]

It seems that we have some vague and rather ethereal sense of where we’re going in this thing called life.  For the more contemplative soul, that sense might be quite refined.  For the casual traveler, it might be a bit more nebulous and scattered.  In many cases where we’re going is far more rigorously defined by all the places where we don’t want … [Read more...]

We’re a terribly independent sort.  There’s a bedeviling, yet fundamentally inherent need to be free of anything that we might have to be subservient to, or pass any degree of credit off to.  We want to pen the lines as the single and sole author of the text. Yet, despite our convictions to the contrary we all worship something.  We all have our … [Read more...]

We always have, and we always will have the intrinsic need to believe in something.  Life is a journey whose demands will always exceed whatever personal assets we might possess in an attempt to meet those demands.  Life always has and life always will require more of me than I have within myself to give it.  All of my accumulated resources … [Read more...]