“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou Stories We all have them. We all love them. We all have heard them. We all seek more out whether we realize it or not. Stories further validate, help us to gain more knowledge, entertain us, sedate us with others … More Delicious Ambiguity
“Everything is an experiment.” ― Tibor Kalman “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.” ― C.S. Lewis I used to ride my cruiser bicycle up the biggest hill my small town had, to get to the public library. … More …Processing…
“Writing is easy. You just open a vein, and bleed.” — Emily Dickinson Fun fact: Statistically my “best performing” articles, are NOT my personal favorite ones. Interesting. Ex: I got a notification today on my phone that said: “Congratulations on reaching the 5K milestone in viewers on your blog!” 5K? Taking the time to read? … More Basehits and Homeruns
**Trigger Warning** This post contains graphic recounting of sexual assault. “two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to … More The night that changed it all
“Humans do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts … More My Kinsey Scale
“Some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to taking on bad ideas, it just makes you better at defending them to other people and to yourself. Smart people can believe some truly ridiculous things, and then deploy all the reason and logic at their disposal … More Cult(s) and “strong” words
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi How long have you gone without eating? Can you imagine yourself in that state of … More Hungry
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” ― Veronica Roth What I live by, and do on my “weak-days,” until my “weak-ends.” (A summary) When life gets too complicated.I go simple. When a buffalo sees a storm coming. They walk towards it. … More “Weak-days.” “Weak-ends.”
In the void I was never really lost. I thought I was, and I was right. I still was. Was, but not lost. In between “founds” There is a stillness in the void. A quiet, beyond quiet. An absence, full of density. A darkness felt, not seen. Voids are everywhere. They are the in between. … More A Poem: “The Void”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” -Friedrich Nietzsche I think about you when I write. Every. Single. Time. Still, I cannot decide if it inspires or impedes my writing. Probably both. Which is probably a good thing. You mean so much to … More I Think About You
“A Cleverly Named Blog” with Aubrey 