As summer signals its send-off and autumn announces its arrival, the earthly equipment we employ to measure time will mark the conclusion of my sixtieth year in this here and now. A birthday milestone I could never even imagine thirty years ago. A birthday marker that too many of my friends never realized; their lives […]
Tag Archives: life lessons
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Jul
Jul
I live in a culture that deifies what our senses can see while disparaging what our senses cannot see. I live in a culture that devours generosity to satiate our vociferous appetite for self while discounting a sense of shared community. I live in a culture that diminishes kindness and denigrates love. God is love. […]
06
Jun
Jun
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 […]
30
May
May
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. […]
16
May
May
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 […]
09
May
May
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 […]
02
May
May
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 […]
21
Mar
Mar
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 […]
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Feb
Feb
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 […]
21
Feb
Feb
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 […]