For whatever reason I’ve gotten into watching documentaries about the various cults and cult-like organizations that have sprung up throughout the years. It fascinates me to see just how far off of center perfectly rational people can be pushed (or pulled depending on the cult). This makes me want to learn more about all matters…

Due to my perception that our world is out of balance, I frequently feel subversive. I want to see institutions crumble and those in charge of them have to gather the pieces and reassemble them in a manner that actually suits the common good. This is a novel concept when you feel like you live…

I find myself wondering as of late if philosophy has a place in modern society. There used to be a premium on the open and honest discussion of our place in the world and universe but I wonder if that time hasn’t passed. As I’ve come of age during the 90s, 00s, 10s, and now…

There arises a keen sense that I have much to reduce. Despite my best efforts, there is a great deal of mental clutter I trip over daily that I’d do well to remove. All of these longings for more need a good listen to see if they possess any merit or if they should be…

Happiness, as a concept, is a baffling one. It’s a state that exists solely in the imagination but we make it a life’s work to try and attain it. As with many of the greatest things in life, recognizing how much of it you already possess will instantly grant you more of it. So that…

It isn’t often that the state of things in the outside world warrants any sort of response but I feel compelled to say that things are getting truly unsustainable in real terms. We are basically indoctrinated to rely on automobiles and therefore are reliably slave to the fossil fuel industry. The same industry that has…

There is a word for the lover of words: logophile. I number myself proudly among the ranks of humans, thus obsessed. A well constructed sentence is basically porn to me, and it doesn’t need to reach for the top shelf for content either. Loving words means that I even love the simple ones used to…

I’ve been occupying my hands and therefore my mind lately with work refinishing doors. This has allowed me to figuratively paint myself into some corners and wrestle with my place in the world. It’s a given but I’ll say it anyway, this conflict happens entirely within the confines of my headspace. But this can come…

In an attempt to define who I am and want to be, a problem of vocabulary arises. Rather than just settle on a word, two or dozens, I lose myself in the idea of being any single thing. This isn’t who I am. I am amorphous.I am idiosyncratic.I am iconoclastic.I refuse to surrender to convention…

2022 started with a hefty dose of tragedy in February with the passing of my father. Ever since then I have been completely occupied cleaning up and closing down a business that I have been a part of since I left high school over 20 years ago. Now that much of that work has been…