Jaxon

A Forest at Midnight

Camping is an absolute joy when done right. Though, after my recent experience with friends, I can also tell you that it can be incredibly fun even when done wrong. 1) You only really need to plan on one major activity. The rest can be sourced from your surroundings such as hiking, spelunking, bird-watching, bug-hunting,ContinueContinue reading “A Forest at Midnight”

Holidays, Thank God

I really have no writing schedule, do I? Oh well. While I may not be capable writing against a timeline that saves my wonderful readers from proverbial whiplash, I can assure you that my months-long hiatuses are constructive. Life moves on: sometimes at a snail’s pace of hollow-eyed daily grind, other times atContinueContinue reading “Holidays, Thank God”

Kudos

How many people do you think you encounter on a daily basis? Another question: how many lives do you think you touch in a day? Now, do you think the second must follow the first? Or can you have an impact on someone else without directly encountering/conversing with them? I ask this, as I haveContinueContinue reading “Kudos”

Toxic Guilt

I’ve had a lot of time to think. Although I can’t say I’ve taken full advantage of it to actually think. Funny how that works; we make small little promises to ourselves to “take time and think about …” but how often do we actually ponder on that decision or course of action? More oftenContinueContinue reading “Toxic Guilt”

The Public Eye / & / Walking In Shoes

Here’s a two part-er for you. I’ll give you an intermission warning so you don’t hate me for the sudden topic change. The Public Eye I was watching an interview with the great Tom Hiddleston – going over his career as an actor – and it struck me at how quickly we as audience membersContinueContinue reading “The Public Eye / & / Walking In Shoes”

The Lens

They asked me to be better. But never tried it out themselves. Simply being and living and breathing… How do you do that without a drive to be better? Am I the only one with purpose around here?

Falling Again

Some days, it’s easy. To just close out the sound of rain, embrace the coldness of the screen.Be swallowed up in my technology.But other days, I just can’t ignore it. The rain begins to fall and it touches me in a mystical, powerful way. I don’t know why. Maybe God is trying to tell meContinueContinue reading “Falling Again”

The Year of Woe

But really though, it has felt like that, hasn’t it? We started 2020 hoping the even-numbered anomalistic rotation might bless us with some fun memories, exciting opportunities, maybe even some new friends. At least I did anyway… 😂 Yeesh, was I wrong. (Don’t hate me for picking a post by the Atlantic, it’s just forContinueContinue reading “The Year of Woe”

A New You

My heart aches for something new. A new color. A new smell. A food I’ve never had. I view to wash over my eyes. I need to travel. Thought for the day: What if you were to watch the sunrise in one state and then sundrive to watch the sunset of the world in aContinueContinue reading “A New You”

Things Go Wrong

Have you ever had anyone call you out for your actions and attitude? You think you live your life with a certain agency and intent, yet every now and then, someone very close to you calls you out on your bull and you’re left there stunned and tripping over yourself. You for sure didn’t intendContinueContinue reading “Things Go Wrong”