When you find out who you are or who you want to be the path to getting to the summit isn’t always clear. Sometimes there are no signposts to mark the way, sometimes all you have is the mountain in front of you and a direction to go. It’s all the subtleties and nuances about …
Continue reading "A Direction without a Path"
I am sitting at the 24 hour Indian restaurant just after breakfast trying to figure out my next move. I face the same issues that have plagued me for years as in I use my cheapness as an excuse to be alone, I’m not willing to go out and engage others beyond the standard travel …
Continue reading "To know is to evolve is to grow"
I left hope when I was 25 years, I moved to Toronto, found a job and just as quickly it was gone. Then I went back to school and just as I finished the economy imploded around the advertising industry and some of us survived and were able to thrive and others like me ended …
Continue reading "11 Years, the other side of the world, from Writing to Fighting"
There is something magic about going down the rabbit hole? When you can take, every inspiration, all the ideas and manipulate that into something new. That is when you are not just a writer or a creator but of what you create you are a God. When I started creating a world I started as …
Continue reading "The Wonder of World Building"
There is a sense that each step in human evolution was leading to the moment we freed ourselves of the Earth and were able to establish a permanent presence in the void. To be freed of the place of our collective birth is both terrifying and exciting. So it’s time to start that process again.
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Everyone wants to matter, every writer wants to be read. Every day there are a lot of us that fear we are just nothing. I wonder about that one question if a tree falls in the forest does anyone hear it, does it even matter. It goes back to the question we ask ourselves when we …
Continue reading "To the words that no one reads"
Do you remember being asked what you wanted to be when you grow up? When any choice was possible before reality took the infinite possibilities and made them small. As you grow up you have to get realistic, you are funneled down paths that are not always based on what you want but what’s expected …
Continue reading "The Calm in the Chaos"
There is a day I remember, when I was in India when I was missing the familiarity of home that I wondered is this what my life is, seeing wonders and cultures but doing it on my own. That was not a good day and it still hasn’t really changed. I walk a great path …
Continue reading "Fight the Repear to not just Live but Thrive"
Facing the future also means not being trapped by your past and I have been running from mine for years. I’ve gotten used to being alone and independent and while it’s been great it is no longer enough. I can’t just stick to the same old routines and think that is going to somehow change …
Continue reading "Facing the future with swagger"When you live in shame you are not really living you are surviving but not experiencing. I have been guilty of that for my entire adult life. I forgot what it meant to be alive, to enjoy going out or just talking to your friends. I have a great family but I am not close …
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