A Win-Win

There’s something magical about watching people love what they do. They aren’t always living a “successful life”. They aren’t always living a life you’d want. But you can’t help but be happy for them, and a bit of that happiness rolls over into your everyday. This progression means that in turn your love for whatever…

Self Betterment

“Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment.” – Joseph Brodsky Whatever the catalyst for your writing (assignment, challenge) there’s an overlapping goal of improvement. An improvement in your ability to think, articulate, convince, persuade, explore ideas, etc. Stating the obvious, improving oneself should be a common denominator. Yet if we…

Where Will The Wind Take You?

Billowing winds bring moments of unexpected, unanticipated, unplanned joy. But too often they swirl about aimlessly creating eery echos of what could have been. Until one day they encounter a mast with a sail proudly attached. Photo by Vackground on Unsplash,

Three Blindfolds – And Which One You’re Wearing

Under a bustling bridge sat three scrawny mice. They remained stone still, while their stomaches rumbled, for a blindfold covered their eyes. Each blindfold represented a unique kind of blindness limiting them from a full stomach. The first was problem blindness. Instead of looking to solutions or preventative measures a problem were integrated into everyday…

When Tomorrow Comes

Routines create blind spots. “We’ve always done it this way.” Too much to be done to think about tomorrow. But what happens when tomorrow comes? Photo by Sheng Li on Unsplash.