dear diary

  • The Shadiest of Them All

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    For thousands of years, society has lived with the expectation to build for the next generations. There’s that old parable that goes something like society becomes great when men plant trees whose shade they’ll never sit beneath. The people over the age of 60 came into a world full of shade from all the trees…

  • Le mal de vivre

    Another new feeling. My house is on fire right now and no one cares. At least not those around me. Honestly, I didn’t anticipate for them to care, but I also didn’t anticipate this “feeling.” And being the queen of empathy, I know as sure as the sky is blue, that I will care, and…

  • wildfire

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    This new infernal way of life will bring a quicker and crueler end than anticipated. I will die in the way I feared most. And when that truth settled over me, I felt a calmness not experienced before that shows me Jesus is real. It’s the only hope I can grasp amongst this apathetic society.…

  • equanimity

    Dear diary, “Happiness is a product of equanimity, meaning mental balance and the ability to be calmly objective. From this space of clarity and composure, the real essence of happiness can develop, which is inner peace. A type of peace that is not controlled or defined by external events, one that can move with the…