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If You Only Knew
I am not sure I truly digested what he meant at that time. But, it is certainly in my cells now
Virtue signaling at the end of the world
Anyway, whether you’re on the blue team or the red team, I love you. I really do. You and I are the same thing, we came from the same place, and we’re going back there someday. All the rest is just stories we tell ourselves.
Warm Beer, Homelessness, and Alice In Chains
On New Year’s Day 1993 I woke up in my Olds Cutlass on Fitzwater Street in South Philadelphia. As I watched people making their way toward Broad Street to watch the Mummer’s Parade, I cracked one of the warm beers I had and popped a cassette tape of Alice In Chains SAP ep into the player. I looked to my right and saw my buddy’s apartment that I had been staying with. When I’d gotten to his place earlier that morning, he’d slammed the door in my face. Something about $100 that went missing from his room. A lot of nerve I had stealing from...
Self-Approval & Performance Based Love
Everything changed when I know longer gave two fucks for your approval. I was shown that it is on me to meet my own needs; to wake up each morning in approval of myself. If my aim is to go outside the door following the shadow of the of the rainbow to find the elusive gold of approval I will always come up short. To come up short, means to be in a forever chase for something outside myself. Now lets say I do receive your approval, it will never be enough because I am still driving by the insatiable wanting machine. It's function is to want. To want again and again and again.
