Your passions can be influenced but this is about when your passions influence you. We all have things we like. Like to see, like to feel, like to taste, and like hear. Its too easy to hide those likes in a more guarded place, and put on a mask to fit societies norms. Try to …
Category Archives: life
Becoming A Passenger
For years I’ve driven my kids, but at some point they become the driver. The transition is a little jarring. You remind yourself constantly that you’ve prepped them the best you can. But at some point you have to let them take the wheel and become the passenger. Then with a little more time they …
First Love
What a memory, middle of senior year watching a car roll into place for sale as I drove to school. Paint, chrome, and glass reflecting all the light it could after a wash. Sunfire gold metallic, with green vinyl interior. Seriously this rolling street art made by a company I had a fever for at …
Baggage
Perspective and the cages we build or escape from. The uneasy alliance of pain and empathy building is the high wire for emotional trauma or growth. No life is without the negative, or the positive its just seeing the positive and acknowledging the negative. When I head into choppy water I know to bring my …
Love
Love is a funny word, its definition is completely personal. Love can describe a new passion, and love can define a relationship that’s stood the test of time. My understanding of this phenomenon has changed through the years. It seems the more you give the more you deepen this meaning to yourself. When you find …
18 Foot Measuring stick
The biggest thing that bothers me about not owning a house by my age is not having a wall with all our kids height’s on the wall. I don’t blame the economy or society, I blame me. Its funny how much this bothers me. Its like having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your …
Move
I believe everyone has a way they move, like a dance. A rhythm built in you find in a mundane task or something fantastic. Art, music, and creation of any kind. It grabs you where you are and can happily simplify your internal compass. We all have wants, needs, and somehow this slides in tight …
When Weakness Becomes Strength
Water is not stronger than steel but it doesn’t hold onto a collision of conscience like steel. Flexibility and adaptability are paramount in perception. Trauma doesn’t usually have a happy ending, its strength at bending us like putty can be devastating. Perspective can be seriously impacted. Unlike water which ebbs and flows through life. Steel …
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