“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart You hesitate, squint, trying to find your vision; your purpose. With each pause, you draw closer to becoming Stillness itself. Avoiding … More Focus
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” – Friedrich Nietzsche In the past few weeks, I’ve been slowly losing my will, my hope, my heart. What takes us from a thousand vivid adventures filled with risk and reward—a bank volt stuffed with expectation and payoff—to watching our life slide … More Sitting Around
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth Too dark, too serious, too intense. Depressing, melancholy, grey. A deficit of delight. Not smiley enough. Quiet. Concerned. Missing the fruity flavor of the mass market appetite. It’s taken me twenty years to accept that I can’t write … More My Creative Expression
“That’s the magic of revisions—every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” – Kelly Barnhill Editor or ax murderer? It takes a keen eye and steel constitution to strike the critical blow—the perfect balance between what stays and what goes. If you’re a puritan, it’s easy to hack away the … More Clear Cut
“The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.” – Blaise Pascal We’re not so different, you and I. Cut from the same cloth—made in His image—the flesh and blood garment we wear fits, folds, frays the same. It’s a tight fit, I admit, but we are woven together, closer than … More Scratching the Surface
“Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.” —Eckhart Tolle To surrender fully is one of the most terrifying things you can do. As willful, single-minded entities, we feel at our strongest and most capable when we forge ahead on predictable highways of past experience rather than relinquish our … More Surrender to Red
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” —Rumi Everybody has their compartment of angst where they hide their failures, regrets, and doubt. Behind ever-growing walls, our autonomous discussions—sometimes blistering into arguments—defend our questionable relationships, our needless losses, our emotional dysfunction … More A Million Little Drops
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” —C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed) Cut its stem—down to the vine—and a rose will return the next spring in vibrant red rebellion. Its buds multiply with satin leaves and colors coursing through unfurled petals. Sentimentally, you hold its face with tender fingertips as you … More The Thorn that Kills
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” —Richard P. Feynman In every great tale worth telling is a common thread that coils through its hallways, folded within the plot’s interior design, tempting the reader to follow, invest, … More Follow the Red Thread
“Blood marks stain the steps that lead to thrones. Scars are the price of scepters. Our crowns will be wrested from the giants we conquer. Grief has always been the lot of greatness.” —Streams in the Desert Not by might, not by power, but by the Spirit within you does your greatest achievements call—a distance … More Dare to Lead. Dare to Bleed.
Bleeding In Black and White 