I recently was thrilled to find out that there’s actually a word for people like me, people with a wide-ranging span of different interests, and a tendency to jump from one project to the other, with a diverse group of projects going on all at once — you know…  what your average society-member would call an “inability to commit”. Well imagine my relief when I stumbled upon this site and discovered that not only is there a...

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A couple of years ago, as I was re-assessing my intentions and goals for my life, I made a list of all the things that I wanted to do and achieve, and at the top of that list was written – “I want to be free.“  At the time I wrote that I did not realize the significance of the order I had put it in, nor did I realize what I was truly asking for. I thought that being free was something that comes with a great deal of money so I...

I was having breakfast with a dear friend the other day, and she was expressing her grief over the struggles and challenges of being gay, even in this modern society. As I listened to her beautifully expressing her experience of this, she said – “I’m just tired of this constant fight to be accepted for who I am.”  She expressed how she was weary of the underlying pain and fear that’s always in the back of her...

It is so tempting to believe that with enough struggle, enough suffering, enough hard work,  and commitment, we will eventually arrive someplace wonderful. Somewhere better than here… some place better than now. Some place where everything’s completed, checked-off, and filed neatly away. But how do you react when you believe that thought? For me… when I believe the thought that tomorrow, or next week, or next year will be better or...