“We can't save them from themselves.” The conversation carried on, but the words resounded, reverberated, and bounced off the walls of my heart for the foreseeable future. I was talking with a colleague about the work we do, about how we have a front row seat to...
Last weekend I had the extreme honor and pleasure of witnessing my baby brother graduate from boot camp, officially becoming a United States Marine. I am still astonished. Four days later, I look at him barely recognizing his now chiseled jaw and nearly bald head. What has...
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know, without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. {Alexis Carrel} A few weeks ago, I found myself in an interesting, new situation. It was an event that I knew was coming so, of course, I solicited feedback from my friends/mentor...
I don't write well when my energy feels all bumfuzzled and conglomerated. In fact, I don't think well or feel very well either. Sometimes my brains turns on me. Have you ever felt that way? You know the true things. You know the facts, but your emotions (and the associated...
The other day a friend and I were talking. We're considering working on an exciting project together and as he talked me through his thoughts, a eerily familiar feeling crept up within me. “He's giving me all of his information...
photo: phandroid I must admit to you: sometimes I talk to walls. It's true. Sometimes I stare straight at the blue, white, taupe, matte structure & just rattle off important details of my life. Walls are my best friend when I am feeling uncomfortable. I am in the middle of a story, chatting away, eyeball-to-eyeball,...
i sat in the floor and continued to stare at my nails. the course grating from the file suddenly seemingly annoyingly loud, but not loud enough to drown out the voices that were now booming overheard. i continued to let my eyes stay down, not in...
Trust. Trust according to Merriam Webster is, "a belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc." The other day a friend of mine posed the question: "How do you trust again? [After being hurt, damaged, bruised, beaten up, tortured, discarded, and broken by life and people...
During my time at Ridgview Institute I spent a lot of time discussing “space” with mysupervisor. One day he noticed that itʼs a term I use often, but he was unclear as to whether or not I could define what exactly I was talking about.Eventually we...
You know how sometimes memories are ruined? There are good memories and bad memories. There are memories that you want to last forever, the ones you hang pictures of on the walls, the ones you try to recreate. Then there are memories that you try to...
