Ghosts

Friendship

Why are some people such awful friends to one another?! Now, I’m not saying this because of personal experiences with my own friends, because thankfully, I’ve been extremely blessed to have a number of wonderful people in my life whom I can truly call my friends. This wasn’t always so, therefor there isn’t a day that goes by where I am not endlessly grateful for the gift that is their friendship. 

However, with that said, someone close to me is going through a very rough time right now and not a single one of their so called friends seems to give a crap. This really annoys me to no end. Understandably we all have busy lives in one way or another and most of us have a lot on our shoulders, because that’s just how life is. We all feel like we don’t have time, but many of us simply need to learn how to make time. When you become friends with someone (and I mean actual friends, not the acquaintance that you talked to a few times in class or at work and friended them on Facebook), there is a certain responsibility there not to completely drop the ball on what it means to be a friend, if you truly care about them and value their friendship. This means checking in on them from time to time, actually showing up and calling when you say you will, not completely disappearing for half a year like you have fallen off the face of the earth and then popping up again for five seconds to act like you care, only to disappear again only due to lack of trying. There are so many ways to connect to one another in this day and time, to show even in the simplest of ways that we are thinking of each other, even if we are thousands of miles apart; yet somehow there are still people who feel like they no longer have the love and support that is friendship. Because no matter how much they reach out, no one reaches back or takes the time to follow through. 

It’s a new year, people, let us all try harder to be there for each other a little more, let us try not to get so caught up in the craziness of life that we don’t make time, even just a little bit, for the people in our lives who make us happy. 

The Long Way Around

Throw back to a long time ago,  sometimes we circle the long way around just to meet ourselves again whole.

Sea Serpent

"Sea Serpent"

9"x12"
Graphite on Bristol paper
Print Available

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That Wondrous Thing

There is something about the chill of Autumn, the cold of winter, that stands as a reminder of ones mortality. Today I was in one of those hazy reflective moods, where you just sit within your head and really think about things. And I realized perhaps one of the main reasons the winter and fall months are dear to me, is that profound, life altering, things aways happen to me during this time.

After the rush and craziness of summer, autumn brings some kind of reminder to me, of who I am, where I've been, and where I'm going. What really matters in life and what doesn't matter so much. I have seen my darkest days during this time, in years past, as well as my most most beautiful and awakening days. Experiences that have profoundly made me who I am today. And when I feel that chill in the air, candles lit, with the smoke of sage and myrrh feeling the air around me. I am wrapped up in some strange comfort, that is both haunting and wonderful, fearful yet extremely hopeful. But most of all I feel truth, a profound truth that pulls me away from all the superficial nonsense that goes on day to day, and grounds me in whats real. The reality that I can go outside and run, run, run, breathing so deeply that the air burns my lungs, take every second of it in and feel nothing but joy and life from it.

There are so many little things in life that matter so much, that are overlooked, unappreciated, and under valued. Simply because other things get in the way, or because we don't take the time to or have the patience pay attention to the things that really matter, to take in every seemingly insignificant detail. I think there is so much truth to living in the moment and taking each day as it comes and not rushing though life in a frantic frenzy of what is to be had, or gained, or what you may loose. Without dwelling on the past or excessively worrying about the future. There is nothing more beautiful than losing yourself in those quiet moments that make you realize, "you know this thing, life, really is worth while, and it really is a wondrous thing".

Straight to and far away

"In the land of the unknown, all roads lead straight to, and far away from home."