Category: Action
-
Mellow Mushroom
When we arrived in Fort Worth, the first cracks of discomfort were starting to show. Jessica was becoming restless and was kicking the back of the driver’s seat where my husband diligently navigated through hordes of traffic. Our son had broken free from his several hour-long tablet trance and was now asking questions, like when…
-
Writers Write
“If you are tempted to look outside yourself for approval, you have compromised your integrity.” Epictetus Once upon a time, a little girl lived in her head. Her feelings and experiences were held inside, much like a Venus fly trap that draws inward its prey – after enough time has passed, whatever it was became…
-
Writers Write
“Yesterday, I joined a kickball league. What started as an innocent conversation with some friends, snowballed into a series of events, some of which I still don’t fully understand, which resulted in me showing up to a field thirty miles from my house to practice with a group of people I had never met before.”
-
Santa Claus Versus Shang-Chi
The lie of unmanageability is that I can’t reach my goals because of time constraints or some other variable. My lower self has been prioritizing needs, then wants, then goals. In an artificial hierarchy constructed by my own feelings of inadequacy, I’ve willingly put my goals beneath my current reality instead of using goals to…
-
Checking In…
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” – Aldous Huxley
-
Shine Brighter
“My internal battery feels like that of the wind-up flashlight. My daily cranking is no longer sufficient to shine as bright as I want to.”
-
The Quarter
“This isn’t my first choice to be writing about my profound experience with a quarter in reference to my time travelling, dimension bending, deceased cat. But I often feel that what I write isn’t really mine anyways. I am simply the means to an end to get words to paper. Sometimes, I’m as surprised as…
-
Ice Cream Heaven
“The ice cream is always flowing, and the conversation is always interesting in my version of heaven.”
-
I am.
I am the flow of life that connects the body and soul. I am the nature of all things from the smallest to largest creatures of this earth. I am the bridge of all emotions. Awareness of my presence changes how I am experienced. I can be held in and pushed out, but nothing can…
-
The Struggle of Conflicting Wants
Ever since I was fifteen years old and attended my first “meat fabrication” class in culinary school, I’ve been a conflicted vegetarian. It wasn’t the blood, or the immense physical effort it takes to disassemble a dead cow that turned me off to meat, but rather seeing the living conditions the cows lived in before…