Songs and stories to discover your purpose through suffering.
Find your hope and joy again.
Latest Posts
- Is Sammie Real?
Mr. Solly! Welcome. May I take your coat? I spotted you from my open window the moment you emerged from the woods. - Scammed!
Have you ever been scammed in the era of AI? Fooled by connivers using Twitter bots to prey upon your desires? I was scammed this week. By writing about it, I hope to lessen the sting. I’d like to laugh through the nose at my latest escapade, so that it never warrants a paragraph, let alone a chapter, in my future memoirs. But I’m not laughing yet. - Burnout (Part IV)
If you sense in the air a sapping, the loss of all your strength and joy; if you feel powerless to plan and act and there seems to be no purpose in your life; if you forget how to feel happy and you find no beauty anywhere—not even in a Christmas snowfall or a flaming sunset over purple mountains—then you are probably sliding into the Valley of Burnout on slick mud, or you’ve already been there a long time. - Burnout (Part III)
Have you ever traveled through The Land of Burnout? Have you stopped for a meal at Slim’s Bar and Grill? Perhaps you’ve forgotten it all. Perhaps your memories got jumbled as mine did. - Burnout (Part II)
The best way to Burnout is not to follow any map, but to spin in tight circles at your regular job as fast as you can. Every job requires spinning—usually clockwise—though it’s often called something else, like a “Quality Initiative” or “Five Nines of Certainty.” Start spinning immediately.
My First Novel
The Legend of Crumble’s End: Call to Journey
Two unlikely teenage heroes answer the Creator’s call to run, explore, and redeem a broken land. They are captured by wild beasts, then rescued by strange people; they are imprisoned, and they escape; they fulfill prophecies and bring deliverance. The opposer of the Creator’s plan delivers some hard blows; he gains a large following of Celestial host and even poisons the promised land. But the heroes lead their small nation, comprised of multiple peoples, on a desperate last march to a good land, free of the toxic air.
If you’ve read an early version of my first book, please leave a comment! I greatly value your feedback.
Be sure to check out my most recent publication on The Habit Portfolio: The Ink and the Inkling
