Just a guy with bona fide life experiences trying to give others some of the same grace that was given to me through my own dark times that led me to where I am today basking in the sunshine.
Though it may feel like you are a square going through this in a world full of circles; you are far from alone. It does not matter your income, race, sex, faith or geographic borders. This pandemic is reaching across our invisible lines.
The United States makes up 4.4% of the world’s population, and consumes over 80% of the world’s opioids.
Carl The Muse I want to be like a tree, I want to be better than I am today, tomorrow. I want to leave seeds of what I was when I am gone, and I want those seeds to give the kind of love that I got. I want to provide shelter when there is…
By: Carl The Muse Am I the only one who feels like I am watching a horror show that I wasn’t prepared for every time that I watch the news or get on the internet these days? I am learning to get the information that is relevant and turn that thing off. If you…
It will be ok, we have been here before. In the end, the darkness will be met with the light and have nowhere to run and light will win the battle just like it always does. Darkness will never ever go away but in the end, the night always changes back into day. Its history…
It’s been harder lately to write because so many changes have occurred in my life. I have been stuck in a rut as days simply turn into nights. I lost my mother and my big brother weeks apart both sudden and unexpected. My soul had been shocked and I was rocked to my core,…
The best thing that I have ever done and the best thing I will ever do is the family that I have made that you see before you. I understand that as a man I am to help set the course to set the master plan. I learned over time, I was lucky I had…
Where does pain start and love end? Sometimes I can’t tell if my feelings are my enemy or my friend I go hot and cold as fast as a rocket goes My direction is like the water reacting to the wind I go forward to go back again I create all the love and then…
I wrote this as I thought about someone who has become my brother. We have been blessings to each other in every way and one of the ways that I saw I could bless this man was to share with him my perspective on love and what it really means to be a man. I…
Memories are created, I have learned that over time. I used to get irritated as my mother snapped away with her camera recording every moment of my life that she could both big and small. I did not understand then what I understand now as a father and a married man. I thought my…
I have been blessed in reality with the things I ask for in visions and dreams.My mom always told me how proud she was with me as a man. My mother let me know when I was a fool and when I had become one she called me a man. I had a reward…
I am a different kind of man, Insatiable that seems to be me, it seems I can never be pleased, I cannot get enough of this certain kind of stuff. No matter how much I get its never enough, I am addicted to mine, I am like a junkie every single night. I always need…
I was thinking today about the vow of marriage and the fact that those words once were a link that people made that became unbreakable til death. There was a time when words were more powerful than any paper contract. The words shared between people were once like treaties signed by nations, no matter the…
Why wait She has already made you a feast And you ate Now you are hungry again And she puts another feast in your face She serves you the same way Everyday She just lets you be No matter what you say You have to push her out the door for her to run…
Ten years strong and still at night the same shenanigans go on, with her I go real real long and for me she sings that song, it keeps me hanging on she is my one, I have no secrets from her, my #love is a verb, she is my fantasy and she allows me to be whomever…
Lately I have had trouble sleeping, I want to be awake all night, I am too excited or too content whatever you want to call it, I have been too excited to close my eyes at night and so I have been spending most of my hours the same way day or night, I am…
One of the greatest lessons that I learned in losing my mother and my brother and a whole host of others that I would spend the rest of my years trying to tell you about these wonderful souls that I have been blessed to know. The thing that I have learned in all this loss…
A new time has arrived The ones around me have fallen Passed on They have died Right before my eyes It changed Life, Gone Never again to be the same The reign is over But the monuments remain They will always live on I carry them in my veins Our connection is so much deeper…
What’s next? 2013 Has been a year I will never forget Lost my mother what seems like Just the other day And now three months later My big brother Has passed away He has left this place And again My family is on record pace I admit At first, I broke down and cried…
Out of the darkness and into the light Into the sunshine and out of the night The whole world will change Right in front of your eyes And its no illusion What you see Is what you are getting You are at the right conclusion You are about to start winning No more losing No…
I was called out of the darkness when I was just a young man I had been given the right directions but at the time I just could not understand I thought I had a better master plan And as a result, I just ended up suffering I did in my youth what many lost…
A few words of encouragement. 