“When we come to itWe, this people, on this wayward, floating bodyCreated on this earth, of this earthHave the power to fashion for this earthA climate where every man and every womanCan live freely without sanctimonious pietyWithout crippling fear” Maya Angelou This...

“He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars." Jack Kerouac It is Friday evening, around 6PM. I am home with nothing to do. Really, for most of the day, I was thinking...

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” Friedrich Nietzsche This could be one of my best beginnings ever. I have started writing, because I got tired of writing. What? Several stories ago, I told you I got...

“We are made of star stuff.” — Carl Sagan Billions of years ago and billions of miles away, this limitless space we occupy, our tiny speck of cosmic dust, doesn’t seem to mean shit to the vast majority of us. I saw that photograph above, taken by the James Webb Space...

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Plato I have spent so many years writing about myself and who I am. At the same time, I have been reading Buddhist literature, defining the complete impossibility of answering that...

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.” Benjamin Franklin I wish words could be written in the air, but that’s not how it works. I have all these stories, chocked full of endless pronouncements about the nature of life and how to embrace it. Now, I take...

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.” Aesop There is this funny thing about getting older, actually there are a lot of funny things about ripening on life’s vine. Theoretically, we are supposed to be smarter, having learned...

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” —Jack Kerouac I had a story ready to go for this time and it was already up around 1,000 words. I wasn’t thrilled, because i was trying to make up a story that didn’t deserve to be one. I will tell you...

“Ants are a curious race.” Robert Frost I was all set to go with a story about ants and I had no idea where I was going to go with it and I still really don’t. At the time, I was thinking, over the course of nearly five hundred stories and my 300+ page book to my...

“A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.” Stephen Hawking I just got in from rucking, wearing the twenty lbs. vest and walking up and down German Hill. This time, I wanted to do it and felt I was doing it as a word warrior. I had...