The Day the Guru Died

Have you ever fallen prey to someone you put on a pedestal? Entered into a relationship in which you worked to receive validation, to be worthy of their admiration and approval?

I spent decades pedestaling anyone I deemed prettier, smarter, or luckier. I had a...

One Sunday afternoon my five-year-old daughter decided to draw a butterfly. They’re her favorite subject to draw right now, as her imagination and coloring box have no limits and she can therefore curiously color infinite variations of the butterfly. But on this particular day, she opted to...

It is easy when the going is good or great to wax positive in poetry. When the ground beneath you is solid, those affirmations and manifestations work like a fucking charm and you think, “Man, everyone should step up to this plate because I am batting one hundred and they would too if they...

Self-doubt is a pandemic.

The pathogen of this disease is the more than three thousand assaults of marketing and advertising picking at our philosophical pain points daily, resulting in an epidemic of self-doubt about not having enough or being enough.

The challenge isn’t...