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Tag: creativity

An Early Thanksgiving in Austin TX [Photos+Videos]

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Sharing some photos I took from our short 2 day road-trip to Austin, TX— celebrating Thanksgiving early. (We figured a day or two in Austin was doable since we had to cancel our plans to visit New York… 😭 bummer).

** I do not own this photo, it was not taken or edited by me.

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Expired 4/22/25

May 14, 2025May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment



How fourteen years can change everything.
Just like my passport, I’ve expired- I’m done.
The dull sinking darkness in my heart is settled.
The vapid void of joy is instilled deep in my soul.
Nestled within my being is a shame I can’t shake...

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Protected: Behind My Fingers [REBOOT]

December 13, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now

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Someday, Change [Video]

September 16, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Waiting for things to get better on their own doesn't work out well.

At what point do I find the answers and ability to
behave like a functioning, respectable member of society?
When do I learn to conquer my daily demons and grow?

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Accept Yourself [Video]

August 29, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Exploring mindful happiness.

Happiness is what remains when you let go of the need for control, and instead accept yourself and the world around you- as it is now, not how it “should be.”

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Rhyme Zone Dot Com [Video]

August 25, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A silly poem I wrote about hating the confines of using rhymes in poetry.

Creativity strains to push these words,
I fear my muse has gone with the birds,
to fly away and hide from me.
Tell me, God, what’s this blasphemy
that my pen is forced to write in rhyme?
I’d call it childish any other time.

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Children [Video]

August 19, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Teaching children mindful values.


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Abandon Hope [Video]

August 17, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A discussion of the negative aspects of hope.

Much like worrying, how much you hope for something doesn’t really change the final outcome… Such attachment can cause great self-inflicted suffering and disappointment…

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A Muddy Mess [Video]

August 13, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Longing for a purpose in this life.

Old habits await my mind’s stalling,
Chemical dependencies crawling at my mouth,
But I sit them out, patiently waiting for
Something- anything- else to fill my time. br /> One minute at a time, as they say.

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Breathe Now [Video]

July 30, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I need to meditate instead of writing about mindfulness.

It's time to put down the pen and breathe.

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Shut Off the Television [Video]

July 28, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I can't THINK my way into insight. I can only clear a space for it.

I want to shut off the television and listen to the birds sing.
Maybe then I can find that inner peace I've
been missing all these years stuck in my head.

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Reality Isn’t Broken [Video]

July 26, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I fail to see reality as it really is all the time.

Instead of a present mind,
I've settled for a spacey one lately,
always subject to a slight elusive displeasure.

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Me in Four Words [Video]

July 24, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I always want more NOW! Why can't I listen to my mature thoughts?

My sorry reality is stuck to pay the price
for childish impatience and impulsivity.
Such has always been my life.

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Varsity Status [Video]

July 18, 2024November 15, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

The vain status symbol of Varsity and how I jealously wish I made it.

So we're at the same game, but sitting on the bench.
I'm ready to play, just let me keep these training wheels,
I can't just let go as easily as I once believed i could.

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Space Between Lines [Video]

July 17, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

The never ending obsession with finding something that feels better.

A sniffle and postnasal pull.
Focus forced to pass the time,
It only ever extends the day to seem longer than before.

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Snap Shots with a Camera [Video]

July 14, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Snap Shots taken with a DSLR camera, forever preserving the past.

Open. Close.
Fractions of a second.
Light in. Flash out.
A scene set in rolling stone.

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Alley Side Acknowledgment [Video]

July 12, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Winter brings such gentle chaos: a calm calamity that cleaves the air
With drifting snowfall and the dissipating ghosts of our every breath.

it's hard to shake hands when they're
buried deep in the warmth of coat pockets.
A turned-collar nod of the head, then, br /> becomes status quo for the season's greeting.

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Black Winter [Video]

July 10, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Texas Summer: mosquitos and allergies.

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The Winter [Video]

July 8, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Procrastination and distraction take complete control of me in sight of beauty.

Pat’s cottage is something from a postcard,
a picturesque New England lakefront cabin
humbled beneath a titanic Milky Way panorama.

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My ADHD Meditations [Video]

July 4, 2024April 24, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Luckily, meditation is about noticing the inevitable distractions, not about learning to focus better.

It’s not about learning to have better focus but instead, it’s about learning when we’ve already become distracted and gently returning back to our intentions.

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Intention [Video]

June 24, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Surreal reality meets nihilistic truths. No One ever Intended to be born.

It's strange to watch yourself move, speak, write, and live with out ever intending to do anything...

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A New You [Video]

June 22, 2024April 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Pep talk for the future; we'll all mess up, but KEEP moving you. CREATE A NEW YOU!

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Insight [Video]

June 20, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

To be alive is to succeed, Be free from needless suffering.

Accept this, and be free from needless suffering.

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Plucking Life’s Strings [Video]

June 18, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ 1 Comment

There was almost something special about hearing Kent play Guitar. It brought internal silent peace.

I want to close my eyes and hear
; my brother play guitar at night,
the way he used to in high school…

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A Knight in Motley Armor [Video]

June 16, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I'm sick of always acting the fool, but perchance I'll find a better footing.

I wish to leave the page filled up to the end with clever, compassionate wisdom, but I bumble and folly like a fool in motley,
driveling conversations sounding from the bells on my cap

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