PREFACE: This post was originally written in September of 2023. Originally, I couldn’t release it. The cultural atmosphere felt too hostile to say any of this. Needless to say, much has changed. Hope you can appreciate this time capsule from before the 2020 US Presidential Elections …
Tag: emotions
Deep In Thought
There’s been a ton of things going on in life lately. I can’t say everything going on, but suffice to say – it’s plenty. The Challenge I have issues with feeling overwhelmed. I have issues with not feeling good enough. I have issues with abandonment. So, lately, I’ve had a good amount of testing on […]
Dependency – Be The Solution
I’ve been lost I’ve spent a lot of my life putting a lot of value into the opinions of others. More precisely, I’ve put a lot of value into what my significant other thinks about me. That hasn’t been a recipe for success for me. That pattern has devalued the pursuits in my life that […]
A Long Weekend of Parenting
Last week I picked up the baby from his Great Aunt in Tampa. We spent a week together. Last Thursday I picked up the twins from school here in Orlando. We spent the weekend together. That made for a very busy weekend. Looking back at it, I’m grateful. In the middle of everything, I would […]
Some recent events have forced me to really evaluate what motivates me. I’ve talked before about Fear and Insecurity, and at the time I thought I had a better handle on it. However, I’ve had to deal with some harsh realities lately, that are the result of my own actions. I was asked a pretty […]
Yesterday, the world lost one of the best performers/comedians I’ve ever seen: Robin Williams. His death, apparently by suicide, seems also tragic. How could someone who seemed to have what most of us want, feel alone enough to end his own life. The story of Joseph Grimaldi comes to mind when discussing this. It’s a […]
So, over the last few months, a lot of life lessons have become much more relevant for me than in any time in my life prior. Of all of these lessons, priorities seems to be the most important for me. I, like many of us, feel a want or need for a number of things. […]