This past week has been powerful… honestly more powerful that I anticipated it would be and impacted me emotionally much more than expected. With the combination of the presidential debate on Tuesday night followed by the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Wednesday… there was such an overwhelming feeling of appreciation for the […]
Okay… lets get serious… if you live in Southern Cali or watch the news you already know… it is way too damn hot to think about anything of substance this week past the fact that it is way too damn hot. And I know us khaki suits do not deserve or ask for any sympathy
I started to write something… then I deleted it and started thinking about something else to dive into this week but here I am… back at the original starting line because I can’t stop thinking about and day dreaming about it… love. The reason that I deleted my first pass was because I started feeling
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I’m just sitting down in my room after a shower last Sunday night… winding down from the day and setting up the menu for the week ahead when one of the “homeboys” walks into the room…. “I am a 15 minute Father”… he says as he sits down in the chair opposite me. “My son
I have a little tradition on the weekends. I wake up about 30 minutes before the sun is going rise (I listen to an AM radio station before bed that tells me the weather and when the sun will rise and set the next day. I know… strange. But it always makes me think of
The score is 0 – 0. It’s almost 8:40am and has been this way for about 35 minutes now but the TV room is electric. Every seat is taken and all eyes are glued to the center TV where the Gold medal game for Woman’s soccer is unfolding. Every single time the ball approaches either
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I was watching a segment on TV this past Thursday about a futuristic technology that would have the ability to implant memories into our minds’ so that we genuinely and fully believe we have experienced something or learned something that we have not fully experienced past the participation in the “implantation process”. The segment theoretically
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And just like that… another month has passed. I have touched on it before but the obsession with time in here would make one be inclined to think that it would crawl by at a snail’s pace but for whatever reason… you blink and it is Friday again. I guess that is a good thing
Okay. So crazy things happen in here seemingly on a daily basis but sometimes… oh man… sometimes something happens that makes me shake my head and think… “Okay… I have truly seen it all now.” Let me take you back to this past week… There is a guy that lives a few “houses down the
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Let me put you up on game real quick (as the “homeboys” would say in here). Cardinal rule while you are living behind these walls… ‘If they are good…. You are good’. I cannot express how important this notion is to remember and how incredibly true it is as it relates to your mental health