Chiron

I'm dealing with a prejudice of mine. I like people who have a tight coordination between what they say and what they do. It used to b...

A new analogy/metaphor/comparison hit me today. Not sure how applicable it is, but it feels right. It's about relationships and the tr...

A few days ago (first real chance to write since) an inmate asked how I became a jail guard. "It's a long story," I said. No...

Do you ever sit down and think about the absolute random things that came together to create you? Not just the one in a million chance that...

This is where this has all been going, and as I've laid the background it's become obvious that I misunderstood may things. I'd...

Read the comments to the last post. The journey is a journey no matter which direction you are going and whether you are progressing or dig...

Working off the description from the last entry, each journey ends not only with a change in the self, but with admission to a new community...

I've been putting off writing this long enough. The Hero's Journey, as explained by Joseph Campbell, is the basic framework of many ...

I'm re-reading a book, one of the ones that came out in the seventies that makes me want to puke every time I hear the word "warrio...

I've been really wanting to write- the difference between the small world and the big concepts behind it; how pushing someone into a lea...

This is a prelude to something I've been needing to write for some time, and it touches on one of the major themes of this blog and my l...

Muscles grow through exercise, I am told, because the effort causes tiny tears in the fibers. They don't actually grow during exercise ...

Frustrated today, and I'm going to try to turn it into something useful. Today, off the top of my head, subject to change without notice...

Got back from Martial University late last night. Three hours driving, seven hours playing, three more hours driving on less than four hour...

He talks a good game. He's got all the qualifications- a Black Belt, a security job, special team membership. He buys every piece of n...

The task today at the start of the shift was to explain to an eighteen-year-old violent serial rapist that it was no accident he was in pro...

I was offended yesterday. In most cases, that takes some doing. A friend and brother, someone I love and have long admired, introduced me t...

I've been in a weird place for the last week or so. Almost every thing I saw, touched or did seemed to summon an image. I would see th...

This is one of those epiphanies based on the shades of nuance in language and translation. Take it for what it is worth. I first learned th...

Fresh human brains smell like a mixture of very fresh, high-quality meat and Ivory soap. The common daisy was used by the Romans in a poulti...