In a culture conditioned towards immediate gratification, we tend to expect our lives to peak by going from Plant straight to Harvest. Making choices based on this structure often leave us with high, highs, and low, lows. Decisions that get us that quick hit, but leave us feeling even lower…

In the West Wing episode “He shall, from time to time…” ( Season 1, Ep. 12) President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, is on his way to deliver his very first State of the Union Address. Before doing so, however, he meets with the Secretary of Agriculture, who has been…

I remember distinctly the day my grandfather (Pappy) taught me, not how to mow, but how to mow well. It was an after-school lesson. I’d often walk to my grandparents house, which resided just down the street from my middle-school. This particular afternoon, I had been tasked with mowing their…

Down the street from my house there is a beautiful river front park that has a trail that may or may not be accessible to the public, but there is no signage so its quite vague. The trail runs parallel to a railroad track (probably why its technically not for…

Let’s say you just lost your job. Even as you are walking out of the office (or logging off your company computer at your home office) you are already asking yourself — why? Immediately you begin to search for the reason this has happened to you. It feels like an…

Rules. We must have rules. We must have rules to govern ourselves against our demons. Against those parts of ourself that cannot be eradicated, but rather must be overpowered time and time again, so that our better angels may prevail. I feel as though I have lived without rules for…

I’m not sure about you, but since experiences and events are opening up to in-person attendance, I am seeing an increasing want for people to — fight each other. From Baseball —

I have romanticized life for a long time now. Looking for some grand adventure or love that would give my life the meaning I’ve thought it was supposed to have. Now being alone and without the love of someone close or living in the midst of some great chapter, I…

Love is something we long for from the moment we are born. It’s innate. To be held, and feel held. To know you are wanted, without having to meet expectation. Organic in its purest form, love is the most powerful medicine, feeling, accelerator, and comforter. It transcends reason. It creates…