Going Alone

I once imagined I was steering my own life in a very full and meaningful way. Full control. Nearly complete, adult, and independent...

What effort is involved in holding a position of faith? The work is in the restraint needed to protect our belief from doubt. We strive...

Just every once in a while...every so often...I'll spot the Indifference between the moments of my daily life. For, while the Nothing...

Life is a little like coming awake on an island beach, naked and screaming and vulnerable and weak. The natives here do care for us, and...

Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...

There's this world where I live... And where others like me live. We are there together always. Such a nice place: with the things we...

It is said that good actions are their own reward; bearing an immediate and lasting fruit of nearly tangible well-being unto at least the...

October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of...

October 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...

October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...

October 16, 2019 Dear Eric, To the best of my knowledge, you never once went truly alone into the wild. But that's no surprise, as few...

October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...

October 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Would you ever have not taken your own life? Though I do not believe in fate, I'm convinced you had no real...

October 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You not only knew the exact place and time of your death but you indeed even walked there. You went alone. I...

September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...

September 27, 2019 Dear Eric, It's too bad our talks together never explored the issue of morality and justice... As I would have enjoyed...

September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...

September 22, 2019 Dear Eric, How wide were the margins of your life? Not wide enough, I'd guess, given the fact that you left absolutely...

September 18, 2019 Dear Eric, I weaponized faith for the first time yesterday. Well, maybe that's too strong a word. But that's how it...

September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...