I remember a scene in a movie where a homeless man told strangers, “Welcome to Hollywood. What’s your dream?”I say that’s a fair question. What’s your dream?What does it look like? Who’s in it?And of course, what do you want to do with this?Do you want to see this come true?Or, d … | Continue reading
So, the question becomes, where do we go from here?I like this question, although I admit this question comes with different angles. And, admittedly, the idea of “where do we go from here,” can often be big or so huge that the we find ourselves intimidated or so worried that the … | Continue reading
It took me a while to find my sanity, which is not to say that i am sane, by any means. But yes.I am a work in progress.I am about to discuss a small part of my life. However, this is my past. This is my beast as well as a previous burden. This is […] | Continue reading
It is more to me than something simple and obvious. People, I mean.I’m talking about the easy and the obvious findings. I’m talking about the things we fail to notice and yet, we see them every day. People. Although not all are the same and not all people belong in the same categ … | Continue reading
It is safe to say that whatever is beyond me is beyond me. And we know this.However, at the same time, I see people walk into unnecessary battles with eyebrows folded downward with a seething rage, teeth grinding, lip snarled, and their neck bent forward and fists clinched. I hav … | Continue reading
Nostalgia –Now there’s a great find. This is the thing inside of us which stirs when something comes along and hits the memory button.Nostalgia, like, as in ah – that thing which took place all those years ago.Remember?Back when we were young . . . I love this sort of thing –Or w … | Continue reading
What does it mean anyway?Life?What does it mean to live to the fullest. I ask because in fairness, and as an honest spectator, I often see people live with reservations and doubt. This is amazing to me but still, it’s true. We have wants and dreams and desires, yet, there are so … | Continue reading
Something I think about is the way we argue. And I wonder why, as in, what for?I think about the way we fight or the way we bitch about nonsense or unimportant things that somehow take priority in our lives. We bitch and we moan. We complain. We fight and we go back and forth […] | Continue reading
I have been looking for an answer to my prayers. Then again, I suppose we all are.Even those who never pray – they have something that they want to.I’ve been hoping and searching to find “that thing,” that has no name and yet, this is the thing that means everything to us. This h … | Continue reading
What was it that made you happiest when you were a kid?I ask this because there are times when I struggle to remember. There are times when I almost forget that there was a time, and albeit long ago, or not so long ago; there was a time when I was able to laugh or […] | Continue reading
There are times when the hour is late and all is dark. My mind escapes me, which means my thoughts are moving too fast and in a thousand different directions. And I know what this is. I know what they call this. They call this insomnia. But me, I call this another night in bed, [ … | Continue reading
There’s got to be something more than this life than what we see. And I mean more than the status symbols that we were taught to envy or admire and more than money or who has the most toys. There has to be something more than who we are in the ranks of popularity or […] | Continue reading
And you run sometimes. You know?You try find someplace safe or, if anything, you try to find someplace away from everything that’s been going on behind you..But it trails – you know?Life seems to follow you . . ., andYou run and you run but eventually, the question becomes, “wher … | Continue reading
There was an idea that I heard the other night.The idea is to smile in the face of adversity. Imagine that. To smile at the face of an otherwise enemy – to breathe regardless of the things that would otherwise leave you breathless. I say this is an amazing quality to have. I say … | Continue reading
My morning drive is early. Then again all morning drives are early. At least mine are. I am up long before the sun, which is fine because it has been this way for a very long time. I am an early riser. I always have been and I always will be, which again, this is […] | Continue reading
It is to the best of my understanding that there has never been anyone in the world who can say or claim that they have either monopolized or cornered the market on happiness. With that being said, I do believe that happiness is a craft. It takes work. In fairness to ourselves an … | Continue reading
I can’t help or hide the fact that yes, I’m crazy. There’s no question about this. However, instead of complaining, shhh –Be quiet –I’m trying to learn how to enjoy this! I would assume it is safe to say that happiness is as simple as waking up in the morning with nothing to do. … | Continue reading
Life changes. This happens all the time. And I think back to the things that used to be important to me. I think about the fads and the different fashions. And sometimes, I look back or I’ll see a photograph of either the fads or the fashions from back in the day. I’ll either sha … | Continue reading
I saw an old photograph the other day. I found it –It is the simple laws of attraction. And what am I attracted to? Or, would we say why?How did my life take on this kind of shape?It’s a question I wondered after seeing this photograph,And here it is, November . . .Families are a … | Continue reading
I have seen people offer themselves to either an unfair gamble or the trade for a lesser value. I have watched as people either flushed their lives away or suffered through a tried forfeit because they either never believed in themselves or they never believed that their dreams c … | Continue reading
This note is a means to find that thing we have always been looking for and yet – it was always where it was supposed to be, which is right here. Right in front of us. Right before our very eyes, and yet – we’ve looked everywhere just to find this one, simple thing. I […] | Continue reading
And you have to laugh. At least, this is what I hear people tell me.You have to laugh because otherwise, what’s the alternative?Misery? What else is there? Resentment? In other words, perhaps there’s a choice to make here – happiness, or misery?Which one do you choose? We all kno … | Continue reading
I am a working man. I have been on both sides of the collar. To make this a bit more clear, I have worked both white and blue collar jobs. I have dressed in suits and uniforms. I have traveled for work. I have been contracted. I have been on both the fair and unfair […] | Continue reading
I think that before we move forward, it pays for us to look back and see where happiness began. Where does this come from? Does this begin with our youth?Think about it.Did happiness begin when we learned songs in nursery school?Remember? We sang about the wheels on the bus and h … | Continue reading
And so –Today is a new day. The sun might not be shining right now. But that doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there.Right?Of course, it’s there. We know it is.And, of course, today is a new day. Of course . . .But life? Hey. life is happening. Always. There are ups and downs. There are … | Continue reading
There comes a time when we turn a corner. Life evolves as it always does.There comes a time when we look back and realize where we’ve been and where we’ve come from. And then we look at where we are, as oppose to where we were – and then suddenly, we’re not so bad.We have […] | Continue reading
So, you want to know what makes the world tick, do you?You want to know what’s in the sauce? Or better yet, you want to know the secret handshake that gets you through the door.Of course, you do. Who doesn’t? Everyone wants to be in on the secret. Everyone wants the answers to th … | Continue reading
We are moving closer to the colder time of the year. And that’s fine. The autumn seemed to come om quickly and it’s almost gone now – as if the autumn left like a breeze and ready or not, here it comes. Wintertime –The holiday Season, Christmas, the New Year and sooner than we th … | Continue reading
That’s the thing about life. There’s so much going on at once. There are the basic things and good things and scary things and unsure things. We have mysteries. We have questions. We have worries and unsolvable riddles.We have thoughts and concerns, notions and curiosities and su … | Continue reading
There is something I have come to understand about myself. I am someone that needs a project. I need work. I need something to focus on and plan for because otherwise, the mind can wander and thoughts can drift. I give myself projects because the projects have value and the value … | Continue reading
And no one knows what they’ll do or say. Nobody knows how they will truly react, until it’s real or until life is happening, and it’s all live and in-person. This is what comes down when life is face-to-face, and happening. It’s not a dream or a thought anymore. It’s not a fear o … | Continue reading
So, in the end, what do we want?What does anybody want, anyway?Do we know?Are we sure?Or, wait – Is the answer to this simple, or obvious.Or, even better, are the answers to the above questions something which is all too confusing because there it is. It’s right here – the answer … | Continue reading
The following thoughts come from scribbled down notes that were collected from random sheets of paper and even some from a brown paper bag – so I wouldn’t forget them when I came here to speak with you.These are thoughts. That’s all. Stream of consciousness, and unfiltered and un … | Continue reading
I believe it was Robert Plant who said, “Does anybody remember laughter,” when he would sing the song, Stairway to Heaven, live and on stage.Does anybody remember laughter?What a great question. Laughter – wow . . .And then there was light. Then there was hope and truth. Then the … | Continue reading
Let’s not mix words anymore.Let’s be clear on this.Let’s see what’s in front of us right now.It has been decades now – the world we live in is changing. No one is getting younger – least of all me. Life has changed and currently, life is still changing. Life will always change.I … | Continue reading
I have said this before –There are times when people seem lost or better yet, if a person is about to embark on a new journey, or how about this – when someone is about to embrace an unexpected change or a turn of events shows up without an invitation, it can be unsettling at […] | Continue reading
We are who we think we are. Otherwise, who are we? If we believe that we are enough or if we believe that we have value and that we are worth the world, then of course, we are worth more than say, if we think we are worthless or otherwise, a burden or a bother. […] | Continue reading
Sunday morning –The sun is coming up and there is so much to do. And yet, there is nothing to do at all – except to disconnect or to relax or to let go of say, oneself, or to allow the moment to be sufficient enough that ah, the sunrise is here and the new […] | Continue reading
Back when I was younger, I eventually thought that I’d be tougher. Somehow.And I don’t mean this as if to say that I am not tough or that I have never been tough at all. No, I can say that there were spurts of toughness and acts of mine that were the toughest of all […] | Continue reading
I have heard the saying, “life is short.”And it is. Time is ticking. The clock is on and yes, life is too short to be complicated with indecision, which means now is the time to move. Now is the time to stand up. Or, better yet, and in the spirit of this journal – now […] | Continue reading
And so it was. A time.A moment.A fiasco or two, maybe.Who can say? Life is moving now. And me? I am reconnecting with myself. I look back at the different stages of my life. And to each is their own beginning. To each is their own middle and to all is their own ending. This […] | Continue reading
I remember back when I was a kid and The Old Man would tell me that I quit too easily. He’d say that I gave up too quickly, that I didn’t even try, or that whenever things were tough or the fight was too much, I’d fold up and give in.He told me that I […] | Continue reading
What does it mean to have fun, anyway?What does it mean to trip the light fantastic? Or to dance, or to sway to music? Or, what does it mean to toss all of our cares behind us and completely abandon all regards of that which is beyond our control?Imagine?What does it mean to live … | Continue reading
While it would be nice to describe the start of my day begins with a walk to a mailbox at the end of a long driveway in a secluded section of town, nice big house, a community among the stars, maybe we could put this somewhere out in sunny California, or maybe elsewhere at a […] | Continue reading
I have news for you. There is no “perfect.”There’s only us and how we are, which is perfect for me because whether I am flawed or blemished, I am completely me. No ifs or ands or buts.It would be dishonest if I were to say that I am not looking for a cure. It would […] | Continue reading
I have been asking myself a question throughout this entire journal, which is simple. What do I want the most? Is it happiness? Is it peace? Is it redemption and a shot at a greater salvation?Or, have I started this so-called list of mine to redeem my spirit? Is this based on th … | Continue reading
Please, before I go one, we have to keep this in perspective. I cannot say that this is for everyone. Nor is this intended to reach everyone. However, in the sense of life and how we see things, there are people out there who go through things alone. And, well –I offer this entry … | Continue reading
There is no plan, per se nor is there a script to follow. No, this is life . . . and life is happening, live and in-person. Know what I mean? There is no right or wrong when it comes to our plans. There’s only the moment, which is here and now.So, expect the unexpected […] | Continue reading