Lightness and Dark


Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.    Martin Luther King, Jr. In my experience, when it rains, it tends to pour. Meaning, the more tragedies that we face tend to be met with more tragedies on top of even more tragedies. Those…

If Health Meant Wealth, I’d Still Be Poor


Ignore my grown out, cotton swab haircut. But this is me in the ER last night. My fourth ER trip in less than four months. If you haven’t been to the ER during the corona virus pandemic, I don’t recommend it unless absolutely necessary. They had large, white tents set up in the ambulance drop…

Motivation for the Meek


Depression, if you have never really experienced it, deprives you of happiness, your sense of pride, your willingness to say, do, or act. But, like I have said and keep saying, it gives me a reason, not an excuse, to not do what I am supposed to do. COVID-19 is another reason, not an excuse,…