I'd Seen 'interview With A Vampire' And

I'm At The Point In My Life Where I Don't Want To Work As Hard. Actually, I've Had To Take A Good Hard Look At Workaholism And It's Effect On One's Mental Health.

And As I Stumbled Onto Eastern Philosophy And Buddhism, It Was The First Time I Had Ever Read Any Sort Of Philosophy That Really Made A Tremendous Amount Of Sense. What I Liked That Was Missing From My Experience Of Christianity Growing Up Was A Sort Of Acceptance, A Sort Of Being Ok With Being Imperfect And Not Focusing On The Sin.

Beauty Is In The Strangest Places. A Piece Of Garbage Floating In The Wind. And That Beauty Exists In America. It Exists Everywhere. You Have To Develop An Eye For It And Be Able To See It.

I Really Love Storytelling, And I Love The Stories As They Reveal Themselves. It's An Incredibly Nourishing Process; It's Probably The Closest I Come To Having A Religion.

There Is A Fetishization Of Victimization In Our Culture. And I Just Am Not Interested In Victimhood.