If…then…what..? What does your IF stand for? Life is full of them. If this domino falls, it’ll all be okay…maybe? IF = Imagined Framework It’s not always a bad thing, but it can be a crutch. No mater what you endeavor to create, we all have a hope for it’s existence. A desire to see […]

We live in a streaming culture, but very few of us can curate that stream. It flows towards us and we react. I spent a lot of time trying to come up with a way to describe how each of us should become our own tide. Ted Sorensen wrote the phrase “a high tide that

We’ve all either said or been told that we couldn’t give a sh*t at one point or another. Maybe even that we couldn’t give two sh*ts. The grass is always greener on the other side…of everything. And that’s because we don’t pay attention to the work that others are putting into their actions. We see

If you are invaluable, it means you are indispensable. If you are unvaluable, it means you are worthless. The difference in spelling is significant. Just like the work that you may or may not do in order to achieve its distinction. Talk is unvaluable. Empty promises are the staple of politicians. Actions define your bottom

I’m not talking delusions of grandeur. I’m talking about appreciation. If you create anything, at all, you know it’s not easy. Getting to build anything from the ground up comes with trials, but what it doesn’t come with is inadequate ability.  If you are lucky enough to get to create, measuring by money isn’t where

The phrase ‘you’re one in a million,’ doesn’t hold the same water that it used to. For math’s sake let’s say that the current population of the world is 8 billion people.  At that rate, if you’re ‘one in a million,’ that just means you’re in the top eight thousand. That doesn’t roll of the

Vision doesn’t come to everyone.But even the blind can see. The blank canvas is our sand.The ink, our ichor.Gladiators, are you ready? What you do, what we all do, matters.How we do it, matters.That we do it…together…matters. People first told stories with their hands.Leaving paint and soot on cave walls as a historical mark.For hundreds

I’m not talking delusions of grandeur.I’m talking about appreciation. If you create anything, at all, you know it’s not easy. Getting to build anything from the ground up comes with trials, but what it doesn’t come with is inadequate ability. If you are lucky enough to get to create, measuring by money isn’t where it ends…it’s

It’s there.We may not want to see it.We may be ambivalent towards it.But we are, all of us, toeing that line. Obscurity isn’t a fate worse than death.It means there’s hope.There is no hope through death.If you are obscure, it means that you haven’t been discovered by the masses yet.It doesn’t mean that you aren’t

The reality of dreams can be fleeting. Sometimes it’s as hard to see the storm for what it is while you’re standing in the middle of it. You can wake up from a nightmare and not have a firm grasp on what’s gotten you all worked up. Life is the same way, especially if you’re