I've picked up this book on one of my manic days one of my can't-sleep-and-need-to-control-the-panic days it's called the half-empty something or other there's a nicely sentimental human heart beating on the cover maybe it's not beating, but I need to think so anyway I need it to take all of my troubles away all of my faults and indiscretions and, if you please, my vast and drowning imperfections I've picked it up with the solitary intention of identifying with each and every symptom this book is on a subject called chronic discontent low-grade depression, dysthymia, and lack of sentiment I read it and rather than gaining healing clarity I gain nothing more than a hidden portrait of humanity.
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I w
In all seriousness, this is pretty fookin' great.
The answer to all our problems and complexities in life lie within
our very own soul...
Peter