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Playing in the Hoosier Mud
It wasn’t long into my Journey of Fear before I began to get a taste for adventure. It also wasn’t long before I began to learn some of the deep lessons that I had set out on this trip to learn. The day began calm enough. I stopped at the Warm Candle Co. outlet store, which sits just past the Ohio–Indiana border along I-70. You can’t miss it – it has a thirty foot candle outside of it. They have AWESOME prices on everything that they sell, which is all things country crafts. Pretty much the perfect place to bring Mom or a girlfriend…or me. I’m currently writing by the…
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Seven Fears I Face
You might be trying to figure out what exactly these fears are that I keep mentioning. Well, you’re in good company. Because so am I. A large portion of this trip is dedicated to pinpointing what fears I have hidden beneath the surface. And from what I’ve found, you usually can’t spot your fears until you put them to the test (which I’ve certainly been doing). What do I mean by this? For most people, when they’re happy and feeling good, they don’t assume that there’s anything going on deep down inside. But take every last dollar out of someone’s bank account, and for most people, you’ll get to watch…
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Butts, Butts, Butts
Oh whoops, typo. *Buts, Buts, Buts There we go. Well you’re here already, might as well keep reading! (Welcome to Marketing 101 kids.) As time’s gone on along my Journey, I’ve become aware of an interesting phenomenon within my own mind – a group of friends, if you will. I call them my Buts. And they speak to me. What they say depends entirely on my current situation, but usually our dialog ends up sounding something along the lines of: Me: Boy, I sure would like to [insert interesting life experience]! But: Oh no, you can’t. What if [insert possible negative consequence]? For most of my life, my Buts have…
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Metamorphosis
Flash Forward to the Present Day I’m changing in some big ways. While the photos above – the first taken back in March 2nd, 2014, and the second just a few days ago – relate the physical changes that I’ve been going through over the last two years, they can only hint at the many ways in which I’ve been growing emotionally and spiritually. This past week in Fort Bragg, California has opened my eyes to a side of life that was once entirely hidden to my privileged eyes. I’ve seen and experienced things that will forever sway my perceptions of humanity, and our future here on this little blue-green…
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From the Darkness
I fell into a dark period during my first year out of college – one that I can only characterize by the word terror. Dazed and Confuzed I think that many recent grads are a bit traumatized by the sudden jolt that being handed a diploma can induce. But for me, it served as a sudden exposure to the grim truth of life: that there were no more rules, no more curriculums, and that nobody would be there to point me towards the individual path that I was supposed to take. I was terrified by the sudden realization that everything was now up to me. Oddly, they hadn’t offered any…
