Page 10 – A few words and shared experiences from me to you.

Mentorship

Over the years, I’ve carried a secret mission to find a mentor of some kind. This has proven very difficult in a time where the most common answer to a question is, “you could probably google that”. The thing is, even though answers are a lot more accessible than they have ever been, there is…

August 18, 2016
The Face of Blackness

A friend and I were talking about recent events and I started talking about how other of my friends were worried about me; a friend had texted from Atlanta and another from California wrote a text to ask me to be safe and so on. I mused on how they were right to be concerned…

July 21, 2016
A Treatise On Boredom: Part I

Exhaustion. That’s what this week has left me with. Exhaustion of mind, of body, of heart. I can’t with the states and the people in it right now. Jumping the shark is barely adequate for this madness. After a lot of observation, I’m going to leave these gems that I think need just one more…

July 13, 2016
Tragedy In Free Verse

I’m trying to coax this one tear out of the corner of the room and get him to be a bit more social. I woke up to a day that should have had a trigger warning. The hashtag today had my uncle’s name and five kids. I read this shortly after lunch today and slumped…

July 7, 2016
Do What You Can

This week has been a rough one and that has come all the way down to work. Some days, I sit here thinking about all the way we’ve come and what’s been both gained and lost in between. I feel helpless when I think about how to get back to “the way things used to…

June 23, 2016