One of the most naturally decent parts of our nature.
Ether of Us
Tag: social commentary
The Unconditional Conditioning
Unconditional love is for your children, your partner, your pets, hell, your favorite sports team, and, yes, even yourself. It’s not for your leaders, politicians, or your misguided ideas that you are somehow superior or more deserving than any other person. Many relationships require conditions and none are served well by blind, reckless abandon.
The Importance of Accidental Moments
There are times in life that we are reminded of the invaluable importance of a moment. Brief, fleeting, murmurs of time seem insignificant, but they are anything but. We may never understand this as clearly as when the invaluable nature of the moment of difference between making it to the bathroom just in time and making [...]
Eating the Breadcrumbs
When will we stop perpetuating and romanticizing struggling by believing that it’s a rite of passage to success? If you can make it easier for someone else to succeed, you simply should. Forcing others to endure hardship does not make them more deserving of what they achieve, it just makes us assholes. Misery is not [...]
Diminishing Return preview excerpt read by Joseph D. Newcomer
https://videopress.com/v/BLBmAuiG?preloadContent=metadata The following is another excerpt from my last novel. It is one of the parts of the book that makes me proudest of the message I was attempting to convey. I feel as though it is even more relevant today than the day I wrote it. If you feel the same, please share it [...]
