Spiritual Mutt

A few posts ago I talked of my struggles with "Christian" music and how I often feel obligated to somehow like it because it’s ta...

This was originally posted at another blog of mine that was recently deleted by Google. The film Baraka is easily in my top five film...

I keep coming back to 1994. Either I am elevating it to myth or it has been the center of gravity of the space in which I now occupy. It was...

Lately, it seems, I've transferred by addiction to something seemingly less harmful than alcohol, drugs or pornography. This isn't...

Y'know how we often talk about getting out, going, just being free? It's a regular conversation in small towns, suburban towns...

In 1994, I was roaming the West, bogged down with way too much stuff and too much existential baggage. A friend of my father's, who wa...

In 1992, my addictions and subsequent wanderlust were beginning to manifest. Big time. I was making good money at a job I swore I'd...

I am listening to the soundtrack for the film Baraka as ripped from the DVD (seems this is heading for obsolence as the Blu-Ray is said to ...

Not saying they are good poems or even poems at all but dug them up out of some old writings and found them interesting, even if only as exp...

It's the middle of 1993. Working in the cell phone industry which was just becoming huge, I was a top sales rep, making top commission...

In looking back at the distorted filter through which I perceived my life, I realize that there was a moment where hope burst through. It ...

I can't believe that 15 years have passed. In February of 1994 I left the comfort and familiarity of home for the open road. Having a...

My first truly "spiritual" experience was framed within the context of the Dao. I had been studying the Dao De Jing for a few ye...