I’ve read many analysis of words and perception. Putting those together I ask you to take the thought a bit further.  There’s the analogy of a crumpled $20 bill.  Is it any less valuable than a $20 bill hot off the presses?  The correct answer is no, of course not. The value of the money is the same. $20 will […]

Sometimes I long for the simpler days. You know the ones I mean… the days when working 2 and 3 jobs was easy. When mac and cheese was a delicacy and you believe fish sticks were a good source of seafood.   When a stroll down memory lane meant thanking your stars you weren’t in high school any longer. When […]

It’s been shattered completely.  As if someone dropped a crystal vase from the second story window. Splinters of larger pieces are littered in a way some would call a large blast radius. It amazes me how far the slivers of broken dreams can travel. But who dropped it? Who took the dreams of so many and plummeted them to the […]

As humans… we are capable of so much more than the little tiny boxes we put ourselves in.  We’ve built our box, big enough that we can move around in a way that gives us the illusion of freedom and the deception of being the masters of our own fate.  We have built the walls so high that the light […]

At what point did we forget how powerful it was to raise future kings? At what point did we devalue the immense importance of teaching morals and values to those who would one day influence the world? Over time, somewhere along the beaten path, we began to feel worthless.  Weakness and a sense of unimportance became the pit in our […]