Tag Archives: life lessons

The Gift of Love I Scorned and the Sorrow I Reaped

Someone once said that time heals all wounds; maybe. I can only speak from my own experience and my owned grief. What time has allowed me is plot and perspective to ponder what my life has been about. What my life could have been about, and what my life should have been about. Like rings […]

Glory to God and the Ghosts of Club Kids

Nostalgia has a powerful pull on the human heart; its deception delightful. Mystically moving our minds eye to a time and terrain that no longer exists and maybe never really existed. A reel of re-imagination that revolves inside our head. A cerebral sleight of hand that heals the heart as it recalls a reminisced reality. […]

Rage Against the Machine: AI Will Be Weaponized to Harm Humanity

The modern world has deconstructed every social institution, disassembled the cosmos and disarmed the world of any meaning. Reducing the human experience to a succession of stimuli to serve a soulless system. Science is sacred, the sacred is scorned and humans are suffering. As a culture and a country, we our spiritually sick, mentally maladjusted […]

What Retirement Taught Me About My Professional Life

My professional life was all about people, procedures and producing profits. Unlike the vast majority of men who came before me, I was neither a farmer or shepherd, priest or solider. Instead, my daily bread was earned as a member of the modern age managerial class. A vocation birthed in post-industrial America when humans no […]

My Counsel to the Child I Never Knew

I have been given a blessed a life, never wanting for sustenance or substance. Raised by loving parents that buttered my daily bread and nourished my demanding brain. A life made possible because a young fifteen-year-old teenager made the selfless decision to put me up for adoption. A life made possible because a young couple […]

The Myth of Understanding Reality as Paradox

At fifty-nine, I know I’m blessed to have the gift of time and the means necessary to allow me to pursue my heart’s passions as opposed to my past profession. This allows me to think a lot about whatever this is. This being life or awareness of this reality; whatever that means. This or that […]

Waiting on a Prayer (That Maybe Has Already Been Answered)

It’s been almost six months to the day since my book, Finding God in Vegas: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening, was published. My testament to my old and new life recounted as I laid bare my heart and soul to friends and visitors. An excruciating expose exposing every false belief I had about myself, my […]

Control: Life’s Great Illusion

Why begins any spiritual journey, but surrender only happens when every belief you have about your life is interrogated and laid bare. When you humbly understand your limitations as a human. While acknowledging the self-deception that you’re in control of your world or even your own life. This is the moment when you meet your […]

When the French Killed My False Faith in Meritocracy

A year after my fiftieth birthday, the leadership structure where I worked underwent some significant changes. When change happens at the very top, the rest only rolls one way, demonstrating the laws of gravity. I was right in the middle of that way. After spending my entire adult life working to climb that particular corporate […]

Truth, Love and the False Value of Relativity

Growing up, I was told to never discuss politics or religion with someone I had no relationship with; and even if I did have a relationship with said person, to tread carefully. In many ways, this was wise advice. Both realms, reflect our core beliefs and values (or perceptions) about what we believe is right […]