Category: Thoughts

I always love it when I’m reading and out of the blue the words jump off the page and hit me right between the eyes, effectively moving from my brain, all the way down to my heart. In this case, Thomas Merton in “No Man Is An Island” writes: Fear is perhaps the greatest enemy… Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Fear and Sincerity

I have a huge stack of books on my nightstand that I am daily reading and absorbing.  Authors such as Cornel West, Ayn Rand, Thomas Merton, G.K. Chesterton, Frank Miller, Galen Rowell, Kurt Vonnegut, and Stephen King; a wide-range of literary interests that make up a healthy diet of learning new things about the human… Continue reading The Decision of Vocation

If knew that I was going to die tomorrow, what would I do today? So far, the only answers that I come up with are food-related.  Enjoy a nice meal at Twilight Pizza, eat every variation of Voodoo Doughnut and savor a Whiffies Fried Pie.  I would also want to have a BBQ with all… Continue reading If I Knew…

Well, here we go.  Finally.  Again. I use to blog fairly regularly until I got lazy.  It wasn’t for lack of ideas or “original” content.  It was really a lack of habit and discipline, combined with the lie that I told myself about the thoughts and ideas that were churning in my mind and soul:… Continue reading Return to Me