Story time… Last Friday night I was gallivanting along the streets of Portland (Maine) when I heard the voice of a young man behind me say “Excuse me sir, could you spare any change?” I stopped dead in my tracks. Not because of what he said, but how he said it. It wasn’t the usual, incoherent babble. Read more…
A favorite activity of mine recently is randomly blowing people’s minds. Whether through conversation or action, it’s exciting to shake things up a little bit and get people to re-evaluate… well… everything. Being a CRS (Certified Reality Shatterer) makes life so much more fun. Mindblowing, directed at both yourself and others, shakes up the bland monotony Read more…
Divide and conquer Working all too well on Planet Earth When we attach our identity to labels We set ourselves up for manipulation To be played like pawns In a chess game we can’t quite see Who am I? Black? White? Brown? Yellow? Purple? American? Chinese? Italian? Indian? Native American? Read more…
Last weekend I took a solo weekend trip to Acadia National Park in Maine… And it was an amazing experience. (Acadia is a definite must-see for everyone in my opinion. If you haven’t been there, I highly recommend it.) The entire island (Mt. Desert Island) is sprawling with pristine wilderness. Acadia has miles and miles Read more…
Money… Cash, cheese, cheddar, moolah, bread, bills, bones, cabbage, c-notes, dough, dead presidents, ducats, loot, stacks, skrilla… Whatever you want to call it, it enormously influences every aspect of our lives. Money is the primary driving force behind so many of our decisions in life. Like Wu-Tang said, “Cash Rules Everything Around Me.” But it Read more…
There’s an old Zen cone (parable) that goes a little something like this… A man was walking through the jungle, when he spotted a tiger. The man immediately fled, but the tiger gave chase. Approaching a cliff, the man saw only one option… A hanging vine. He jumped off of the cliff and grabbed Read more…
Rejection helped propel me to where I am now. It was borderline comical at one point… I faced so much rejection and missed opportunities with women, to the extent that I thought something was wrong with me. But before I threw my hands up in defeat and hurled myself into to vicious cycle of Read more…
Spontaneous – Coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned. (Dictionary.com) Be spontaneous… Spontaneity is letting go of fear and intuitively following your heart; embarking on instinctive adventures on a whim. Life is giving you a treasure hunt, and you’re seeing Read more…