This is my new life, recently moved from Indiana to Florida. I set up my beach chair near the water’s edge. There is an old Amish quote, Sometimes I just “sits.” This is what I do. Seated in my chair, writing pad at hand, I observe. I muse. There is something in doing nothing. The body is very still. But the mind? The mind soars. Maybe.
Read MoreAs a shutterbug, I am inspired by the artwork and talents of dozens of photographers. However, there is one who seems to stand out above the rest. Clark Little is a prominent photographer from Hale'iwa, a small coastal village on the North Shore of Oahu. His passion for capturing the magnificence of the ocean is evident in every frame and spoken in the visual beauty of the images he captures.
Read MoreAs I write this, it has been 24 hours since Jesus is King (2019) has dropped. It seems that every Instagram story I swiped through, every news outlet I subscribe to, and every friend on Facebook was talking about this record. Regardless of faith, everyone is listening to Kanye West.
Read MoreI’ve often mused on what I see as thresholds of my life. Those turning points where an event, a word, a thought definitively changed me. I was never the same again. In light of that threshold theory, I carefully consider Adam’s assertion that there are three deaths: losing our naïveté, our innocence and ultimately our physical life. I’m Googling desperately looking for some Nietzsche, Kant, any German philosopher in which this idea can be attributed. No luck. So it's up to me, kinda.
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