
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese proverb
Continue reading “Daily Quote: Patience and Anger”“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese proverb
Continue reading “Daily Quote: Patience and Anger”Hunger for ruin
Blind force to destroy, conquer
An angry God screams
“Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.” ― Alain de Botton
Continue reading “Daily Quote: What is Cynicism?”“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson
Continue reading “Daily Quote: Being Honest about Mental Health”“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Continue reading “Daily Quote: Blowing off Steam”No one can hear me scream.
Continue reading “Scream (a 6-word story)”Desert sands of deception
flames of futility
growing in the wilderness
under an orange sky
baking us at record temps –
Our Planet is dying
screaming, crying
and she’s angry.
(Photo from Insider.com)
Note: This poem was a meditation on the wildfires happening in California right now. I haven’t read much about them, but I do know that much of it is being caused by the increasing damage of man-made climate change.
We’re living in dangerous times. Some people (like my girlfriend) seem to be able to cope with it better than me. For me, though, a lot of the things going on in the world have me feeling very on edge.
Continue reading “Coping with Uncertainty”When democracy died, I was reading Kafka –
gunshots blared + factions fought for ideals
they thought worth dying for –
TVs tuned to Washington +
the White House went dark,
troops marched + destroyed dissidents.
Continue reading “When Democracy Died (a poem)”