Why We Should Teach Fantasy
The closest I’ve come to reading fantasy in school was being assigned Animal Farm, twice. . . .
Vocation
To me, vocation means, “The thing inside that moves you.”
It needs to be listened to.
When I haven’t listened to it, life has felt off balance.
These are blog posts about what vocation means to me and how I try to follow it in what I do.
New Things
I’m going to be switching up my content a bit. While I love sharing my travel stories, I’m a writer first (like the book kind). I’m also making a video game, and I usually have tons of small projects I’m working on that my blog posts never mention. These projects are part of why I
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1 I drove fast with the wind in my hair, down the Oregon country road in a flurry about how life would be so different in such a short time. Actually, I didn’t have hair, just a beard… The wind was in that, though, and everything felt momentary, all about to change so quick and
6 | Rome: Monoliths & Pasta
2 I’ve been here three times before, at the bookends of trips long and short. This time, Rome meets me somewhere in the middle of my journey abroad with no end date reserved, and it feels different. I’m staying with my girlfriend right next to Termini station, a dingy neighborhood that reminds me of my
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Push Yo Self
1 I wrote this a few months ago, and I thought I’d share it now that my work is paying off. 🙂 January… This year I’m bouncing around jobs as a social working child parking meter, in school and writing as best I can, saving all my checks until I get to the starting line.
5 | A Quest for Music in Italy
1 Priorities are hard to manage. They get covered up by unnecessary complications. They grow long shadows, prone to paralyze action. When this happens, it’s important to remember that things should be simple. They say it takes twenty-one days to settle into a new routine. I’ve been in Europe for thirty days now, and I’m
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4 | Italy and Passion
Passion sets us off. It kicks the home out of the body, points it down the road, and encourages the discovery of horizons far from our door. It is the magic of life, and it deserves to be followed. If you do, life will surprise you with its beauty.
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3 | Paris and Leaving
I am at the start of a trip I cannot begin to fathom, the precipice of departure—at the gate of my hometown airport.
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2 | The Catharsis of Departure
The number of things you have to do only reveals itself when you know you’ll be gone. People have meditated on this thought through the lens of death, and it makes me wonder, is this upcoming trip the death of myself?
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Attention and Thoughts
Hear me out: thoughts are attention-seeking. They want to be heard, want to be found, just like the one ring forged in the fires of Mount Doom. Sideline, is this why the ring and mountain are separated from the eye? I know Tolkien didn’t like allegory, but I’m digging this perspective. Ahem. Okay, okay. So
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