Category Archives: soul

To seem unbreakable and to wear a fake smile takes enormous energy – energy invested in untruth. Dishonesty. I was dishonest to myself about my unbreakability. I was dishonest to the world by my fake smile. All the while I was burning that energy on untruth, I believed I was being “strong” and courageous. IContinue reading “The Waiting Carrier”

Stitching together some seemingly unrelated sentiments I heard lately… I can’t, or don’t want to be, grateful for my pain. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Gratitude for a poisonous person. What an intriguing paradox. Are we not supposed to be grateful only for “good” things? I woke up and forgave them. I think becauseContinue reading “Thanksgiving Heart Stitches”

A part of me wonders how much and how often a self-serving cognitive bias leads me to perceive my contributions to this world with distorted grandiosity. An inflated ego. I maintain that the ego is, in and of itself, a neutral and necessary sensor of our separateness from other agents in the world. It informsContinue reading “Coal-miner Egos Beyond Hollywood”