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overcoming suffering

Life is suffering and let no man or woman tell you different. We suffer because we perpetuate the same conditioned thinking handed down to us by our parents, peers, culture, etc., that were handed down to them. These “Sins of the Fathers” can be stopped only when we at last turn within and examine that which we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us.

When God Calls

February 3, 2023

It’s said that we don’t seek God but rather, when it’s our time, God seeks us. I can’t speak for the experiences of others, but that certainly holds true here. Truth be told I’m still routinely astonished to learn that almost no one thinks about God the way I do. (Mind you, when I speak of God I don’t have any preconceived idea in mind other than it’s most definitely not some ‘Santa Claus in the sky.’) From the time…

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Leaving the Sufferer Behind

How miserable everyone is. A global pandemic, political and cultural unrest, economic struggles – the list of challenges is seemingly endless. Makes you want to stop the planet and get off, doesn’t it? I remember similar days when I didn’t want to get out…

January 12, 2021
the murderous me

The Suffering I

The body of my ex-wife was discovered the day after Thanksgiving. Just days later, a good friend took his own life. Both had struggled, in one way or another, with depression, anxiety, self-loathing – and the heavy drinking that so often comes with such…

December 26, 2018
Emptiness of being

You Are NOT Your Story

In my garage sit several boxes filled with the after effects of my father’s life, including hundreds of photos of unfamiliar faces stretching back to equally unfamiliar places and times. The thing is, nobody is left to interpret those for me anyway, meaning that…

February 1, 2018
For sufferers

My Wish for the Sufferer

I feel compelled to start this post with yet another giant disclaimer: this blog is a confessional not meant to teach anyone anything. As the saying goes, all minds, including the one behind these words, make for wonderful servants but terrible masters. In other…

January 11, 2018

Will You Hear It?

As I see it, we move through this thing called ‘my life’ until, at some point, our sense of ownership and control over it is exposed as the illusion it’s always been. We spend years – decades – believing otherwise; that we have the…

October 10, 2017