Spring is near. I can smell it in the air. Here in the desert, it smells of wet dust and humidity, stale wind, and decaying foliage. It's a time when we desert dwellers feel an urgency to get outside before the oppressive heat bleeds into our lives and has us drawing our curtains by noon. Here, winter is the time for getting outside. It's the time when food and flowers bloom, and bird songs fill the vastness above our heads. But as the temperatures steadily rise, already hovering at 80 most afternoons, I can feel that hollow feeling that March often brings. Not exclusively about the loss of our…
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An Interesting Solution To The Chaos In My Life
Sometimes things don’t go according to plan and we must seek out the silver lining to stay afloat. Other times, we need to allow the tide tot take us under, for just a little while. There’s value in surrendering to the struggle, trusting that we will emerge again. A bit battered and bruised, but still in one piece.
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Milestones And Failures Are One In The Same
ecome our current-day lion, charging at top speed, eager to feast on our bones. It's as if we can sense it hunting us, lurking behind any risk, large or small, prepared to pounce and render us catatonic, when in truth, failure is primarily a matter of discomfort and the gateway to growth. But I'm not here to talk to you about failure. In fact, I'm here to talk to you about the exact opposite. I'm here to talk to you about what we often call "milestones." Poignant events in a life that definitively lay down a boundary between what was and what will be. Milestones can be as monumental as…
