Month: December 2016

Accomplishments are hard to come by, harder to stay by, and hardest not to eventually fail by. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everything drops to zero. Throughout my experiences in this life, I’ve come to see that there are two main types of ideas: 1.) An idea you have inside your head…

One unexpected side effect of incorporating good recycling habits into your every day life is insight. There is something sobering about carrying a handful of recyclables into my dimly lit garage and seeing the blue mouths of nearly filled containers staring back at me. Most of the recycling bins that I’ve seen have open tops, probably…

Sometimes it’s fun to take a step back and look at yourself a little differently than you normally would. When Brianna goes out of town once or twice a year, I am given weekend opportunities go outside the town of my mind, which always ends up being an emotionally wild ride in one way or…

My brain was a raging head of ache by the time I finished writing my last post up here. I’m not sure if the writing caused the headache or if the headache caused the erratic writing. As this writing more regularly thing hasn’t been a habit of mine for sometime, it’s taken a bit for…

One of the most disturbing parts of life, whether it be referred to as an American dream or some other double-entendre, is how pointlessly cyclical everything is. Every one of us is being tug-of-war pulled in at least two different directions: what we want to do vs. what we have to do. Whether work is a…

Adding new and rewarding challenges to your life is a book of many pages, plots, and twists. There is an egotistical side of me that wants to believe these acts are special for no better reason than that I am the one doing them. Teresa and I’s trip to the local recycling center this weekend…

There is a little yellow bird that I keep inside a cage, chirping incessantly. She says the things I already know, the things I’ll never be. “It doesn’t matter how many reps you do, it’ll never bring him back. You can reduce, reuse, recycle, and he will never cut you slack. I do not think…

The last thing I want to do with my writing is to alienate by coming off as preachy.  Yes, there is a lot of passion in my beliefs, but that doesn’t mean I’m elevated above the crowd while I’m speaking, I’m just one of the short guys in the corner who yells and yells in…

To live is to endure hardships beyond the understanding of your age and wisdom. When everyday is the same as the last, life can seem quite the doldrum affair. It’s funny that Apple and Google have spent millions of dollars to create software to predict where I will be, how long I’ll be there, and…