One of my favorite things about playing a musical instrument is the moment where I get lost in the music. There’s an intricate dance between a musical instrument and the person playing it; one can’t shine without the other – a poorly-made instrument can fill a performance hall when played by a maestro. …a maestro […]
Years ago, I remember reading a short piece written by an artist. He (we used that word back then) described the experience of performing onstage during live music performances with an intoxicating tone that made you feel like you were on stage, smelling the paint fumes with him. He used one phrase that’s stuck with […]
This morning, I woke up at 5:30am and excitedly got ready for the day ahead. I was going trail riding on my bike that morning with a friend, and I was eager to challenge myself and take on a trail riding my new Trek. I spent most of the prior evening cleaning out my garage […]
“Give me liberty, or give me death!” A man once wrote those words. Patrick Henry, one of the Founding Father’s of our country (that name would be cancelled today) who helped give birth to what is the United States of America. It is one thing to be united, while another thing to be free. In […]
Today, I had the opportunity to sit and chat with Atlas’s grandparents about life – before and after being a parent. The conversation made me reflect on my own journey as a man, father and son. There’s a phrase I’ve heard often, which goes something like this: ”I run the race in front of me […]
“With these words, I drop my pebble into the eternal pond of time.” With over a year spent learning the electric guitar, I’ve picked up a few things that have made me think differently about the world of music. There’s something unique and powerful about the way music theory and composition works, as well as […]
For the last few weeks, I’ve been mindful of the home, possessions and lifestyle that I have. Each one of these things brings me a great deal of satisfaction, which is rooted in a sense of gratitude for the way I’ve been able to pull it all off. For most of my career, I’ve felt […]
As an adult, I run into a lot of people who have little to no recollection of their young childhood years. It seems like most people start to recollect life beginning from the age of preschool. That wasn’t the case with me. Some of my memories go back to the point where I was just […]
Today, I put my underwear on by myself. On most days, that wouldn’t seem significant. However, it was a sign of victory for me after a recent series of painful back spasms. For years, I’ve battled the occasional back spasm; a lightning-hot flash of pain that usually drops me to my hands and knees in […]
In my adult years, I started to understand the impact that traumatic situations can have on people. Sparked mostly through conversations with my older brother who had done a deep dive into the subject matter, I kept hearing a word over and over again; disregulated. When you go scuba diving, you probably aren’t thinking about […]