The Weight of Meaning: Why We Chase Significance
Meaning used to be quiet. It used to show up [...]
The Grind is the Daily Grit
Most days the work doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t kick in the door or arrive with a soundtrack, and say [...]
The Long Way Around: How Collaboration, Collapse, and Solitude Shaped My Writing
I’ve been circling the same ideas for years, writing them from different angles and in different forms, only to hide [...]
Letting Go, But Learning From It
You carry it every day—the weight of the past. Scars, heartbreaks, mistakes, betrayals. Heavy stones in your backpack you didn’t [...]
Addicted to Certainty: Why Our Brains Love Dogma
Humans are addicted to certainty. Not metaphorically addicted: neurons wired for predictability, dopamine circuits are triggered every time the universe [...]
Futility
Futility is that cold little voice that shows up after the third try, the fifth setback, the tenth slammed door, [...]
Bet on Yourself
You don’t know me, but you wish, you wish I fit this box you made. To “those” people: you’re surprised [...]
Resilience
Resilience is the quiet comeback. It’s what happens after the chaos hits, when the world shrugs and you’re left to [...]
The Lost Math of the Mayans: When Time Was a Living Thing
We are obsessed with time. Not the kind that hums with the moon, the tides, or the cycles of the [...]
How I Became a Zen Master
In my teens, I picked up a guitar. It came naturally to me, growing up with my 60’s generation mom [...]
Solitude
Solitude is not the absence of noise—it’s the presence of you. It’s a wide, open plain stretching beyond the reach [...]
History of Rock N Roll
It all starts somewhere… With the American Dream as the big payoff for WWII dads across America just back from [...]
Word Grit – A Street Philosophy
Word Grit is a raw, unfiltered street philosophy collection of beat writings. Truth doesn't ask for permission to speak the truth. It's not about comfort; it's about clarity, grit, and the relentless pursuit of authenticity.












