2019

Silence is something different than just the opposite of noise. Silence is not the escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Silence is not what helps to hear a pin drop. Silence is not simply synonymous with quiet. …

Where is true darkness? Where eyes don’t see; where eyes cannot see. The darkness is always within. It is inside. The place where we find what is real and what is true. The darkness is where we see everything we …

Last week was “a week”, let’s just say. One of those weeks where your brain decides that 4am is a good time to wake up. Or, at least, not allow you to go back to sleep. Who’s got time for …

The quiet. It’s quiet as I type this. That’s how I hear my thoughts the best. Or, maybe the truest. The thoughts that speak honestly about my life, love, uncertainties and convictions. The ones that answer the questions I try …

We try to replace the irreplaceable. With stuff, with walls, with avoidance, with neglect. And, when none of those work, we go further. To places we wouldn’t normally go if the situation weren’t the way it was. Desperation will quickly …

STR8.Love – the podcast, coming soon. With Derrick Paulson. Discussions and thoughts on spirituality, relationships, Love and how to manage every day life with candor and kindness.

Gratitude. Journals, mantras, meditations. Buddhism teaches it, the Law of Attraction promotes it; you could probably thumb through Instagram quotes til forever about it. I get the theory that a daily gratitude practice is part of the way to “live …

It didn’t. We did. Life, as a whole, has become more complicated. There’s more technology, more politicking, more social media, more power struggle, more entitlement, more sensitivity, more righteousness, more options, more of everything. The result? We, as the purveyors …

Tough. To not care. Pretty self-serving, too. Usually associated with a person of poor character; with a person that is anything but conscientious and conscious. No one wants to be that person, I don’t think? That’s not the type of …

There’s a type of freedom that probably doesn’t get thought about too often. Ironically enough, that freedom is the freedom from our thoughts. There’s no one resistant to this. Our thoughts originate within us. They reside within us. They ruminate. …