Vibrations shake the walls. As they dissipate silence creeps in. For a few moments, all is still. Then, like a rising wave, another rushes forward. It springs back from the wall, passing within a hair’s width from your face. That was close. You hear it land softely behind you, an artifact for those to come….

If you had to guess the origin of chess you might think of Europe. A game played among patriarchs within stone-cold castle walls. However, the origin story presents quite a different tale. Enter the warm sand covered planes of India in the 7th century. Although the pieces of the game were significantly more ornate, think…

Cost encompasses a lot more than a price tag. There are relational costs to feeling discouraged. There are physical costs to choosing not to work out. There are emotional costs to berating yourself mentally. Take a holistic view of your costs, which ones provide the most value (happiness, fulfillment, etc.) to you? And consider how…

Tomorrow is billowing smoke. More time is not promised. Take the opportunity, tell the story, ask the question, cry, make a leap. Today is all you have. Photo by Mads Schmidt Rasmussen on Unsplash.

Without concious acknowledgement, we are often surrounded by treacherous company. Two beasts with an insatiable apitite, one representing the ego and the other kindness. Which will be your master? Whichever you feed. Photo by Soma Laszlo on Unsplash.