“We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” – Tom Robbins July 4, 2004 – Sarasota, Florida It is with great humility, or as much as this hard heart can muster, that I write you this letter. As I look back over what God...
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Thank God for Second Chances
Last Day in LA
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?… But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall...
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Pasadena Sweat Lodge
There’s a song by Keith Green that goes “You can run to the end of the highway and still not find what you’re looking for. You can’t make your troubles disappear. You can search to the end of the highway and come back no better than before. To find yourself, you’ve got to start...
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The End of the Road for the Rucksack Letters
“And the end of all our exploriing will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot October 31, 2003 Six thirty in the morning at LAX. I ran myself and my carry-on through the x-ray and walked by the little, old Hispanic woman having her...
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Independence Day in LA
It’s another Independence Day and I’m at work. Decide what you will about what that says about the state of my patriotism. I’ve managed to attain employment as a Production Assistant on a new reality show crap-fest currently running on Fox called “Paradise Hotel.” Though I am apt to take a negative stance on...
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Preface to “The Rucksack Letters”
This book began a few years before it was actually lived and written. After college, I wandered from job to job for awhile before my friend Matt Corbin invited me on a surefire Alaskan fishing expedition that would wipe out all of the financial debts that had accrued during our reckless youth and early...
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