I Peel the Bark off the Trees and See My Skin.
Next time you are near trees, touch your palm to their bodies and think of all of history’s petrified wood, how each ring circling inside it tells a story.
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society
Resurgence of Punk: A New Kind of Anarchy.
You see, Punk is a movement that says we’d rather live outside your society and make our own. We sin differently and that scares you.
Are You Stressed Out? Start Shifting Your Sympathetic Dominant State.
We get super sophisticated about staying in a sympathetic dominant state, and take on reactive behavior that society celebrates, so we get validated.
Are Modern Identities Hijacking Our Truth?
Is the claiming of modern identities killing our true identities? Are people confused by the lure of these images that place them in a favorable light?
Reaching Outside Relationships for Help with Them Is Not a Failure.
Do you consider it a failure when you have to go to the garage because you’re having car trouble? Do you feel you have failed when you go to the dentist for your yearly check-up? What about going to the gym? Do you feel like a failure when you sign up for that gym membership because you should ...
The Creative’s Struggle: We Are Not Just About Making Beautiful Things.
As a creative, we push the boundaries. We rub people the wrong way, but dance between that and our desire for acceptance.
Be a Trim Tab.
Building our individual integrity is like building a house. It cannot be done in one day or one act. But a tiny 'trim tab' movement has leverage.
Commit, Or Leave: The Art Of Long-Term Commitment.
The texture of commitment hasn’t been a grandiose cinematic score. Daily, it feels more like a Bach Suite -- sweet, rhythmic, flowing, precise, simple.
The Future Is the Past. {poetry}
I wish to return and close my eyes
This future here I do despise...
We are the aliens to our universe
I wish the day we could reverse...
Afraid of the Dark: Why We Need to Open up About Our Pain.
When we feel open to talk about it… when we let the pain breathe… when we don’t feel judged and ostracized… that’s when things get a little easier.