Category: Personal Growth

  • With Age Comes Birds

    With Age Comes Birds

    There is a popular internet trope that as you age, your interest in birds goes up. I’ve found that to be true in my own life as well. For years I’d wanted to have a decent camera to go take pictures of birds and a little over a year ago I finally convinced myself that…

  • 2024 And I’m Still Not Quitting

    2024 And I’m Still Not Quitting

    “I want to be a scientist when I grow up.” I said with all the enthusiasm of a six year old. “Scientists are geniuses,” was the reply. “You’re smart, but you’re not a genius.” And so ended my desire to be a scientist. I was in music college where I was attending as a vocal…

  • Leaving the Mountain, to Reach New Heights

    Leaving the Mountain, to Reach New Heights

    My last blog post was six years ago and I just reread it this morning. Sometimes when you look back on old writing you can’t help but cringe a little at what your younger self wrote. In this case though, seeking a better balance between creating and consuming still resonated with me and was a…

  • Consumption Versus Creation: The Ongoing Battle

    Consume Less, Create More A couple months ago I was asked to do an interview for the Why Is That Important podcast to discuss Therapeutic Creativity. I had great time talking with hosts Joe Wenger and Andrew Martin about how creativity can be used as a means of personal therapy whether that creativity take the…

  • Thirty Three

    Sometime in late Spring last year I made this blog completely private and shut it down due to some challenging circumstances taking place in my life in the real world. I figured today on my birthday would be a good time to finally relaunch it. I will cover some of my plans going forward for…

  • Embrace The Place You’re In

    I often hear people talking about wanting to travel far and wide to experience new things in far away places. While the world certainly does have innumerable things to offer a soul prone to wander, I sometimes wonder if it is easy to miss things that are close to home. There is even a subtle…