I could probably blame Jimmy Buffett for my wanderlust and introducing me to the Aboriginal songlines, but I can only thank him. His music has been a friend, a comfort, and inspiration for me. If he hadn’t taught me the meaning of songlines or dreaming tracks, I would have eventually discovered them on my own. This past weekend, I added 2 more permanent reminders from Jimmy … Continue reading La Vie Dansante
I have a “Goliath” that is physically, mentally, and emotionally making me sick. It has put more fear in me than it should have. I have realized how much mental, emotional, and physical energy I HAVE ALLOWED myself to put into this fear and how much it has flatlined my soul. It made me realize that I have still been doing the “Dead Living” I wrote about last month. … Continue reading Vital Signs
“I can’t take it. It’s just a paycheck. I can’t fake it, when nothing’s sacred. It just started. I can’t take one more day. I can’t bend, this must end, counting back from 3, 2, 1…” ~”Dead Living” by Sugarcult They say “we are born to die”. We are not Benjamin Button. Most of us get up, go to work, do what we need to do to survive … Continue reading Dead Living
“I think it’s time to check the crab trap of life once more.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
We all fall into place in our lives…a place of compliance, a place of fear, a place of inspiration, etc. I’ve had this feeling of falling into a place with people I know. A place where I have realized I have outgrown some and some where I am ready to let go because the fight isn’t going to be worth the end result. As they say friends come into our lives for a reason, season, blah, blah, blah. Some wax poetic about friendships, I call it weeding my garden of friends. Some flowers become weeds. Some weeds become flowers, but sometimes, as inspired by the Jimmy Buffett lyric, “I think it’s time to check the crab trap of life once more” one needs to just check the crab trap and make sure the ones in the trap belong.
When I saw the quote to the below, I thought, damn right.
We all know that one (or several people) who are just GIANT DOUCHE NOZZLES and you refrain from calling them out or you’re just nice because your mama and daddy raised you to treat people with respect and kindness no matter what. Continue reading “Own Everything That Happened”
First, EP review of STOKESWOOD “2075” coming this weekend.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, after a pretty shit-tastic day…well, it was a good day, until like the last 30 minutes of work. I should say, I’m getting use to the shittiness, but I have this fucked up and sadistic twist of hope that people aren’t really crap-tastic as they appear to be. Continue reading “Forget Where You Come From, Learn to Live”
I’ve always been a big fan of the music by Lostprophets and this song has been one of the most played in the month of June.
There’s nothing better than singing as loud as you can “…Screaming, Andy, you’re a Goonie. Don’t you wake me up, I don’t want this dream to end…Don’t wanna wait or leave it up to fate…But believe me, I know it will always be moving…” Continue reading “Andy, You Goonie”
Happy Birthday Mama. You would have been 67 years awesome today. It seems just like yesterday you were telling me “good night baby” over the phone but the reality is that it will be 6 years in December that you’ve been gone. Six years. I looked at some photographs of you last night and I started to wonder if I am living a life you would be proud of. If I was pursuing my dreams of living in Australia hard enough. Continue reading “Happy Birthday Mama”
I have a group of friends, aka THE BAND, and I miss them. I miss them A LOT. Through ups and downs, the drunken fights and drunken nights and the good significant others and bad significant others we have always remained friends. They will always be my baby bros or sis’ or baby bears (depending on the succession of where you landed in my life). Continue reading “The Old Days”
I have to be honest, the adage, “The Struggle is Real” is one of my least favorite sayings.
“The coffeeshop was out of vanilla soy milk #TheStruggleIsReal.”