#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Keep going. These days a lot is said about "Resilience", and "Persistence", and "Discipline", but these are just words. We can say them all we want. We can post them in hopeful and inspirational quotes on social media. We can watch videos and listen to podcasts by soldiers who lived through war, people who … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 03.20.21
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Here's a tough one. Do you understand your own motivations? I mean, like deeply and honestly, understand what it is that drives your behavior? Few do. If it were easy, then the science of Psychology wouldn't have been necessary and this generation's culture of social media Influencers would never have been a thing. The … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 03.13.23
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Gonna keep it short today. It doesn't need to be complicated. Simple concepts are the easiest to remember and implement. Start the avalanche. Identify one positive thing in your life that you have been avoiding and do it. Whether it's one of the 3 pillars of Sleep, Diet, and Exercise, or not drinking, or … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 03.06.23
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness No one is coming to save you. You create the entirety of your reality. You are responsible for your own life and for the lives of others. Giving up is not an option. It's okay to be afraid. God knows that I am.The fact is, life does not get any easier as you get … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 02.27.23
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Christmas week. We're going to be pushing -40°C here this week. Things break at this temperature. Skin freezes in minutes. It is certain death, if you are stuck outside. Look after yourself, and if you have the means, look after someone else. We don't always know what it is we need, but we need … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 12.19.22
Reading from my collection, "Children of The New Unknown". "Astronauts" I like this one. https://youtu.be/Z6tJjfkdVoY
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness "Slow and steady wins the race." We all know the story of "The Tortise and the Hare." Recently, I've seen a lot of fitness trainers promoting the idea of consistency over intensity. I tend to agree, that the things we do consistently over time become habits, which become part of who we are, good … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 12.05.22
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness The secret that's not a secret. I mean, it's got to be pretty obvious by now that even those at the highest levels of our power structures are completely clueless as to where to go next, sometimes. Most of us in Regular People World face problems day to day that we don't have any … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 11.28.22
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness It's back. Monday. Do we see potential?Or do we see disappointment?Do we see the work to do?Or what we haven't accomplished?Are you rested?Feeling fit?Well nourished?Or are you chugging coffee, begging the caffeine to banish the lingering fog of a 3 day hangover? You know, you have a choice. Choose wisely, or choose foolishly, but … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 11.21.22
mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Been a minute. Life gets in the way, it's a fact we can't always avoid. There will always be demands on our resources, our time, our energy, our emotions, and the fact is we only have so much to draw on. We need to cultivate a strong concept of who we are. As individuals, … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 07.25.22
The good folks over at Spillwords Press asked me to answer a few questions for their "Spotlight on Writers" series. I was honored to share a little bit about my life, my inspirations and my writing. Take a look here: https://spillwords.com/series/spotlight-on-writers/
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness The first step - Waking up and starting the day. When we're in a low spot in our lives it feels like the whole world says "Why bother?". It's like the gravitational force of our bed is a thousand times normal. Our eyes won't open, won't focus, and we're actively seeking some reason to … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 05.09.22
A little bit of trepidation is natural, after all death is an ever-present fellow and consequence hangs around here, also. I hope you didn't think the ride was free? The future is fraught with danger and I'd be lying if I told you that I wasn't afraid. In fact, I have been terrified for … Continue reading The Fear Diary
So ready to accept the lie, so easy to avoid the truth, never thought that much at all about the pain or the abuse. Smile like you like it all driving its way into you. Like a dull war, we never paid attention while the battle waged on and on. You said, you kept … Continue reading Little Crusades
It's okay, we're all allowed to make the change, or stay the same; whatever gets you through the day, to the next one and the next one. Amen. Give it all you've got, or not. It's just going to be you standing in the queue waiting for judgement. Whether it comes, or not; it … Continue reading Conspirators
A photograph of you used to mean so much, used to say those words, used to hold your touch, but now they're cheap and love is gone; the frame discarded for another one. My words were golden, just like your hair. Whenever we spoke, whenever we could bear, but I can't remember the last … Continue reading A Picture in a Frame
In between the lines, is what they really think of you. Their smiles are all teeth, all the better to devour you with. It's something in between their eyes and their hands outstretched that makes you scream out that they are no friends. I'd rather trust the storm of infinity than be so deceived … Continue reading Unhinged
No one knows the way to the other side, but they say they know the place and the time that makes the pain go away. If it's safe, they'll tell you that they don't really know. Everyone's afraid the same. Hope is a gift left reserved for the dislocated. Time is the door and … Continue reading Everyone’s Afraid
Listen to the rhythms of a world gone slow, breathing temp seductive in the ebb and flow. There are expressions on our faces as we sleep; revealing our dreams, our need to be comforted by something, any little thing. Be it the arms wrapped around us, or that voice in our ear telling us that … Continue reading Listening to Angels
Open the door, that's the first step to let it in, to let it out. Now, take one step and then again; you're on your way towards the end. I have no way to entice you forward, upward and out of your mind. I see you, as if sitting in a prison; eyes blind, … Continue reading You and The Infinite
