Going Alone

October 7, 2019 Dear Eric, Every genuine adventure ends in a new life. How many lives can be lived in a lifetime? One is enough...as long...

October 6, 2019 Dear Yumiko, There's investment in adventure which yields return throughout our remaining days. For me, this is...

October 5, 2019 Dear Eric, There's a place I go to work. It's way out in the desert - almost two-hundred miles from my current home by...

October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...

October 3, 2019 Dear Eric, I think you could have rested quite comfortably upon a log, or a big rock, or on the sand, or a seat at the...

October 2, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the cost of yesterday? The cost is now. What is the value of yesterday? The value is maturity - but...

October 1, 2019 Dear Eric, Good and evil never crossed our minds; and we certainly never attempted to define these concepts or what...

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 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Your gaze never once appeared to waver. Was this due to your youth? Was that it? Was it the strength and...

September 28, 2019 Dear Eric, I wonder who you became before you were no more? I only met you that one time after our lives parted ways...

September 26, 2019 Dear Eric, You, my friend, were one wont to emotion. Though normally you were riding high atop the joyful bubble of...

September 25, 2019 Dear Eric, How did you engage your mind during those final minutes of life before the lights went out for good? You...

September 24, 2019 Dear Eric, You clearly cherished something above your own well-being, which you decided to forgo in favor of better...

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 21, 2019 Dear Eric, Equanimity is the only reward worth pursuing - though we can never gain this treasure by pursuit, less...

September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...

September 15, 2019 Dear Eric, Were you very afraid before you died? You knew it was coming. I'd tried to talk you out of it weeks before....

September 14, 2019 Dear Eric, There's great satisfaction in success. But only if that success resonates deep and echos back to our ears...

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...