What Crosses My Mind

  • Ignorance

    Hello social media, do you still like me, or should I run in circles and wander about with relentless worry. Oh wait there’s a post I want to respond to I should I could I would though I’m afraid I don’t know what I’m talking about. Dammit, I forgot what I was going to say,…

  • Another Lovely Summer Day, another shooting.

    In El Paso, a gunman used an AK-47, walked into a crowed Walmart on a Saturday afternoon, and took 20 lives before being arrested by surrounding law enforcement. So on a day when people are celebrating summer, barbecues, bicycle rides, recreational sports, boats on a lake, our country has become immune to the reality of…

  • On Racial Disparity and an Unwillingness to Look Racism in the Eye.

    Kare 11 News In reviewing this tragic incident at Chaska high school this morning, I couldn’t help but feel some direct takeaways from the thread that follows this article. Clearly there is commentary that speaks to many sides of the issue, but the glaring reality for me is the ease we have with using blame…

  • I’m a kid

    remember that first time an adult held me in their arms? a precious moment complete vulnerability so now today while I stand alone there is a population of feigned ignorance mysteriously forgetting I belong

  • Fighting Ignorance

    This word popped into my lexicon today, while basking in the setting sun, I wondered aloud about what it is we seem to focus upon while all around our familiar ground, the ignorance of life seems drawn to interfere with a quiet reality.   Sweet ignorance the bliss of our lives suddenly has feet begins…

  • Even The Brightest Might Second Guess

    Oh it is a travesty, to imagine we live in a society, so bent on coercive plurality, we have to think about our sanity.   How is it possible so many are duped forgotten are our principles, drawn inside a very large scoop.   I listened to the news last night, again, abhorrent, aghast, afoul,…

  • I Have A Broken Heart

    I watched my world unravel tonight, I believe in love, I understand pain and indifference, though cannot recognize ignorance.   This night I listened to voices familiar and strong speak with certain agonizing reactions to simple insecurities.   How soon do we lose ourselves, when hiding inside a square box incapable of having corners, unaware…

  • On Donald Trump and Ignorance

    For weeks, perhaps months, no to be sure, for the last two years I have struggled with the phenomena that is Donald Trump. I will secretly admit to everyone that a decade ago, when he first threw his name into the hat as a candidate and then swiftly pulled it out because the powers that…

  • On Bowling Green, Sweden and Massacres

      I read in the news today they’re rioting in Stockholm, days later, days beyond the triumphant ballast of an egomaniac struggling with air time, community, credibility, condescension, cowardice.   I suggested to a friend, ‘perhaps this is the plan’ that the idea was fed to the giant orange, and he spoke too soon, he…

  • When Childhood Seemed Innocent

    We would play, for hours in May, anticipating the summer day, those opportunities ahead that contained no worries, no stress, no school remained.   I remember our time spent on the court the roundball, and later building a fort we camped in the woods across the fields, we lived for all the beauty that nature…