You just got out, so, I know, you want to take a couple of days to just be. You want to relax and decompress. You need a few days of uninterrupted peace to get your mental house in order. Do that. Go ahead. But after those few days, you need to get moving. You'll find that the…
Writings of A Recently Released Convict
This morning, while rummaging through some old books and papers, I found this brief and lonely paragraph. It was inside of a notepad of writings I composed from 2002 to 2003. Most likely, it was written at some point in 2002, a couple of weeks or months after I was released from prison. I read…
The House of the Dead, by Dostoyevsky
This post will be less a review of the book and more a review of some portions of the book that I highlighted myself. I'll explain, sometimes with illustrations from my own life, why the parts I highlighted resonated so much with me. First, I must point out that, I believe, anyone who has spent…
On “Thoughts & Prayers”
I was reading an article a few weeks ago that begins like this: "Keep your thoughts and prayers to yourself." When I read that article we were only one day removed from the mass killing in Las Vegas, so emotions were running high, the country was in mourning, I know, but, why was it…
A Higher Plane Of Existence
As human beings, we have a natural tendency to separate ourselves from anything that doesn't add to our quality of life. Maybe even at the birth of humanity, for our survival as a species, acting harshly towards anything (and anyone) that detracted from our quality of life was a necessity. Maybe, from the very beginning,…
Soul On Rice 