I came across this earlier… “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” Virginia Satir Satir was an author and therapist known for her work in family theory. This appears to be a decades…

Hiked into a nearby forest/ reservation today. It’s been a minute since I last went in. The whole area, for those who aren’t familiar, is quite massive, and also quite odd in that it’s not all one big continuous space. One part is controlled by the city, and other parts…

My intuition often is a source of frustration for me. Admittedly of my own doing of course. Part of my design is “wait to respond” and ego (who I’m pretty sure is playing the role of me at 16–17 who would do some pretty effed up things because the ramifications…

I guess I posted this a couple of years back. I’m guessing that at the time it was probably aimed toward the Great Divide. Lot of good that did, clearly… Today, it feels a little different, a little more personal. Sometimes this shit we hate that scares us has nothing…

Going back in my travel experiences and reconnecting to places that made impacts in their own ways. One was a small town in Nebraska that I spent a quick night in. Was never actually in the plan. I actually had a space to crash for the night near Omaha, but…

I can’t help but look at that first image from the James Webb telescope that’s popped up all over creation the last few days. First thing that pops up, as it’s become a habit of doing is guiding me to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. From this distant vantage point…

Show. Don’t Tell. I’m being pulled to remember this nugget I received once from a writing mentor. And of course, it’s also now connected to the Rush song, which…okay. Welcome to my head. Give me enough time and everything will eventually come back to a Rush song. It is a…

Been pondering the word “hope” lately. Honestly, it’s been really hard to hold on to. I’m really trying, and some days it’s there and there’s fire and passion that comes when connected to it. But most days it can feel like, “what’s the point?” Mindset isn’t everything, and there is…

Note: Potential trigger warnings for talk of suicide risk and detainment There are a handful of stories that I haven’t shared publicly about the cross country excursion I took 3 years ago. The original plan was create a book out of it, but for potential libel reasons I can’t. Not…