Tomato. Tomato. “December has always been a very hard month for me…” It seems like not so long ago that I wrote those words. I’ve written that same phrase, in more words or less, almost every year for the past 4-5 years. It’s probably more like 6. Life is different now, but it doesn’t feel […]
Watching people fall off of the proverbial ‘friends list’ of life has been something I’ve gotten more comfortable with as time has gone by. Not because my affection for others has fallen, but because I’m realizing how much more important values and integrity are than increasingly-less-valuable friendships that have had wedges put between them by […]
You know you’re getting older when you begin to place your values before your wants, emotions, and finances. I’ve grown a lot in the past few years. I can’t say if I’ve grown more than the average twenty six year-old, as I don’t know what that looks like. Yet, I feel as if the short […]
“Have you hugged your grandparents, today?” was one of the opening quotes in a chapter of The Empty Hourglass, the book Opa wrote about his life. In a book filled with wild adventures consisting of war stories, encounters with wild animals, treacherous undercover operations, immigration to America, and the experiences he encountered as an orphan, one thing […]
[quote]The burden of originality is one that most people don’t want to accept. They’d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they’re supposed to like, what they’re supposed to buy, and what they’re supposed to laugh at. [/quote] Thinking back to the days of my Psych 100 classes at […]
[quote]When you’re taught to love everybody – including your enemies – what value does that place on love?[/quote] I remember a time where things used to be calmer. Stress was an overwhelming sensation alleviated by the pursuit of dreams. Laughter was something flowing quite freely and without an alcoholic propellant. Work was scarce but love […]
[quote]The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Read more: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fight.html#ixzz1nsFU8ABv[/quote] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is no tomorrow. “I live like there’s no tomorrow” is usually the excuse to party hard enough to forget tomorrow could […]
[quote]In the endless universe there is nothing new, nothing different. What may appear exceptional to the minute mind of man may be inevitable to the infinite Eye of God. This strange second in a life, that unusual event, those remarkable coincidences of environment, opportunity, and encounter… all may be reproduced over and over on the […]
[quote]It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.[/quote] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I woke up this morning, the words “There’s no tomorrow” immediately came to mind, as I pondered whether or not to sleep in a bit further or get up to start my day. Before my feet hit the […]
In the beginning… In the beginning, there was nothing. Before there was a beginning, there was nothing. There must have been nothing, because there is now something. Everything that is once was not. Before religions, before churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and tabernacles…the Creator existed. The existence of the Creator has not been altered or affected […]