Inspiration: Hiking in Santa Cruz with my Teammate, Ivan It's been a while old friend, and yet you are still here... Some things are just inevitable. It's only our stubbornness to move on that causes the actual path of our lives to change, but the outcome is inevitable. It's the timing that may be different because we were too naive to recognize when it was time to jump...
Inspiration: My Hungarian Princess, Anna Some of use are pen people and some of use are pencil people. Let me explain. The last time Anna was in town, we went to a coffee shop to catch up on each other's lives, but also to catch up on some work that needed to be done. While working, Anna looked up from her planner and asked me for a pencil,...
Inspiration: "Ode to Broken Things" by Pablo Neruda "So many useless things which nobody brokebut which got broken anyway" Throughout our lives, we accumulate so many useless things. So many shitty things that we shove in the back of our closets and forget about. So many things that we try to bury with new experiences but can't. They always resurface. So many, many stupid things. I have tons...
Inspiration: "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver Complacency is a hell of a drug. As human beings, we become complacent with the way things are because it is what we are used to. It is routine. So we decide to settle because sometimes just the slightest change gives us anxiety. We drag along things that are long dead.We do the same things, like clockwork, even though we can't stand them. We continue that...
Inspiration: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway “But man is not made for defeat...A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ” I peeled off an old, rotten, moldy layer this weekend. I peeled off something that died long, long ago but I held onto for some reason. Maybe because it is what I was used to for so long. Maybe it was because I...
Inspiration: "Broadripple is Burning" by Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "Forgiveness is a loaded word," she said after absorbing what I had just told her. What does forgiveness entail? What expectations are associated with forgiving someone? There are so many "shoulds" that go along with this idea of forgiveness. Why can't forgiveness just be? This reminded me of what the Father said at Mass a few...
Inspiration: Palos Verdes "Ship Wreck Hike" and awesome friends. Everything is everything. Yesterday my mind was blown as I thought about the infinite number of universes that could potentially exist; all holding a varying version of me. All the alternate me's that chose different paths than the one I am currently on. The one that is dead. The one that is a doctor. The one that is not...
