What am I feeling? Everything around me tells me to keep silent, yet everything inside me tells me to explode, to pour myself onto a page until my emotions materialize into words. I have so much to express and somehow so little to say. So I sit here, in a chair by a fire in… Continue reading Leather-Bound Contemplation No.4

Goodbye. Some may argue that there is no such thing. How can parting ever be good? How can this void inside me ever be filled with anything other than pain and remorse? How can memories ever bring us the same level of happiness as the thing itself? The secret is, in order for a bye… Continue reading Leather-Bound Contemplation No.3

Have you ever been going about your normal life but then, out of nowhere, you see a picture, or hear the line of a song, or you hear someone say something that hits you like a giant snowball of hope? Have you experienced the feeling of irrational optimism, or drank in a moment of exhilarating… Continue reading Leather-Bound Contemplation No.2

Sometimes the most beautiful things are only visible at night, the stars, the moon shining through the clouds and reflecting of trees and water. Each blade of grass seems significant; every leaf seems to hold a secret. We see things differently at night; there’s something about being enveloped in the shrouds of darkness that makes… Continue reading Leather Bound Contemplation No.1