It demands everything of you, offering very little in return. Here you may find only blood and dust. No glory. That’s why so few survive; so few endure. Your weaknesses exposed. Your strengths questioned. Friends become rivals and morality becomes comedy. Opinions are shallow but defining, and there is little…

I grow tired of life and its increasingly annoying need for daily routines. I grow tired of my own ‘good attitude’. There are very few certainties. None worth getting excited about. My capacity to handle disappointment has surprised me. What is there to be truly disappointed about? Nothing really. If…

“We are thus living in the period of big cities. Deliberately, the world has been amputated of all that constitutes its permanence: nature, the sea, hilltops, evening meditation. …

“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve men better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. …

The adventure is well and truly underway. What has come before has long been forgotten. There is only one step, and it’s the next one. An adjustment of course. Once again exposing one’s limited capacity. As soon as language barriers exist we come to remember how little we truly understand. …

“The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.” Joseph Campbell Be it per chance; by blunder; or miraculous circumstance. The call to adventure arrives all the same. Opportunity, as is so often said, only knocks once, and rarely at one’s convenience. The adventure, believed to have been…

I have been plagued by a variety of unique health challenges this year. Offer me a couple of months of injury-free training, a resiliant immune system, a smidge of ambition and I’d bite your hand off. An over exaggeration perhaps, but the point remains. The latest, far less severe, challenge…

I am soft. I am part of a soft generation. My words are often shallow, and more in hope of substance than actually so. Though all of this is less so now than what it used to be; a certain softness — requiring constant confrontation — remains. Even still we…

I am a good employee. Tell me to be somewhere; I’ll show up early. Ask me to clean; I’ll do so with enthusiasm. I wish I were more deviant, and perhaps I should be. But, how you do one thing is how you do everything right? Though we try to…