Who gets to be happy, anyway?
We’re all looking for happiness. Pursuing it. Hoping that one day, we’ll find it by the sea or in a book.
Monsters are real
Monsters are real and they live in your head. Just because you can’t see them, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. “In your head” is as real a place as any. … Continue reading
In love with the pain
The new Disney Pixar movie Inside Out is wonderful because it introduces a positive role for sadness. Sadness can be cleansing. It can bring wisdom. It can heal and help … Continue reading
Hope and expectation
Hope and expectation are tied together with love and hate. They’re at war when you struggle to believe what you ache for is possible. Then sometimes — and if you’re not careful — they fall in love under romantic circumstances and run away together, leaving reality far, far behind.
Courage through emptiness
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. Napoleon Bonaparte I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity. Peter O’Toole When a bad … Continue reading
When it seems all wrong
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water … and when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the … Continue reading