Before I begin talking about this topic, I think I need to first establish a disclaimer: anything I talk about here, or really ever on this blog, unless otherwise indicated, is almost always a matter of my personal opinion and based on my experience. My interpretation, while functionally irrefutable, is also highly subjective. I ask … Continue reading Race to the Finish →

When someone is asked who are the people they love, family members will almost always be named. Most commonly a parent, but quite often a sibling, uncle, aunt, or grandparent will appear too. From my limited exposure to the world, this seems to be the case regardless of culture and creed. Everywhere you go, there … Continue reading Family →

There’s a special hour in the dying of each day, when the sun pauses in its saundering stride to the horizon, and turns around to look back on the world it’s leaving, as if to promise its return. That’s the quietly magic moment where the trees are framed in gold and the clouds break into … Continue reading Drip →

This past week I've had the opportunity to attend a trumpet making workshop in Bloomington, Indiana. The class is centered around using Baroque period techniques to make a period instrument.  To begin, everyone started with a few sheets of brass that had been cut to a template. The first thing we made was the tubing. … Continue reading Seraphinoff Trumpet Making Workshop →

Anyone who has ever been in an english class has heard of the Hemingway Hero. Traditionally distinctly male, he has long been held as a staple of the literary world. This representation of stoicism and internal solitude invokes the image of strength through the ability to remain uninfluenced by the world and its orbital stochasticity. … Continue reading Strength →

From when I was young, I was taught that flowers were beautiful. It’s a funny thing, teaching a person something is beautiful. But I guess at that time, I didn’t know what beautiful was. At the time, I didn’t know that flowers were the way they are because they want to make babies before they … Continue reading Flowers →

I posit that there has never been a generation that suffers more from fear of the indefinite than mine. In a world where paralysis by analysis is seemingly a norm, it is ever harder to be man or women of action and initiative. To illustrate this, think of all the times you were at a … Continue reading When In Doubt, Pick C →

Over the first week of March, the Intervarsity chapter from my School sent a group down to New Orleans on a mission trip called ServeUP. While many interesting, remarkable, and perhaps even extraordinary things happened there, one event in particular burrowed into my mind. The people I experienced this with believe that this story had … Continue reading Desire Street →

I was talking to my political science teacher the other day when we happened along a certain concept that describes the phenomenon that is enrapturing today’s world. It is the Hedonistic Degradation of society. Hedonistic degradation can be attributed to a very observable phenomenon- as society improves, the people of which it is composed seek … Continue reading The Early Bard Gets the Words- Texting →

I was recently in some deep thought about a very simple question, which is why fish didn't invent the fishbowl. Surely it is of more utility to them than really anyone else. For them, the fishbowl could revolutionize their way of life. For us, it is merely an amusement at the dentist's office to stare … Continue reading Why Fish Didn’t Invent the Fishbowl →