The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Ramblings

Category: Pathwalking

You Always Do More Awake and Aware than Asleep

Sleepers aren’t necessarily dreamers and are never doers. I know people who have lucid, involved, detailed dreams. They tell me about crazy happenings they experience when they sleep. I rarely remember my dreams. Once in a very great while, something lingers from my sleep, but more often than not, dreams elude me. Over the past decade-plus, this idea has come into the collective consciousness where being “woke” is somehow a bad thing. What does that even mean? People use the

Who I Am Today Is Not Who I Was Yesterday

I’ll be someone else tomorrow. Driving with friends to a fencing practice more than three hours away, as we talked about the usual people and things in our lives, certain thoughts arose. Things that used to bother me, upset me, or otherwise set me off just don’t anymore. This is not a bad thing, because who I am today is not who I was yesterday. Giving this consideration and thinking about all the work I’ve done to become the person

Maybe Today Is Not Your Day

Tomorrow might not be your day, either. Yet you’re always empowered. Have you ever started your day excited, enthusiastic, and optimistic? You woke up feeling refreshed, invigorated, and ready to tackle the world? That would be amazing, right? I’ve been writing about this life philosophy, Pathwalking, for 13.4 years. Six hundred and ninety-six weeks in a row, without fail. For all that time, I’ve been refining my understanding and approach to conscious reality creation, mindfulness, positivity, and making choices and

The Fine Line Between Knowing and Overwhelming

How do you define too much information? I’m mentally, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted. It takes a lot of energy to reclaim my balance these days. Why? Because I care about the world I live in. It matters to me that our so-called leaders are doing so many hateful, unhinged, harmful things to people, places, and things. Reading about the latest injustice, the unnecessary cruelty, and the utter uncaring is a lot. It’s all too easy to get dragged in deeper

What You Do and Don’t Stress Over Is Your Choice

Nobody lives stress-free. Life is crazy. Much of this is by its very nature. Existing in this world, in the body you call your own, is fraught with all kinds of craziness in and of itself. The aging process alone is enough to drive a person mad. Then there are the people, places, and things – both tangible and intangible – that are part of life but not you. I don’t care where your politics lie, you can’t tell me

I Choose My Own Path To Exercise What Control I Can

The choices you make empower or disempower you. I’m realizing I need to spend less and less time on social media. This creates something of a disconnect for me. As part of marketing my books, Facebook and Instagram are important, useful resources. So, I can’t quit them entirely. But I can choose not to surf them. One of the bigger challenges of walking the indie-author/authorpreneur path is the non-writing elements. The editing, hiring professionals for copy editing and cover art,

What Can I Do About This?

What you can do about this is small but still significant. If, like me, you see the world going mad and feel like there must be something you can do, it’s all too easy to become discouraged. You look at the lies people accept, believe, and buy into. What seems completely ugly and horrific to you, others are just allowing. You see these so-called leaders tossing out kindness, compassion, empathy, and even just caring in the name of greed, power,

It Will Never Be Perfect

Perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Lots of people hold off on projects, creations, and other work because they need to make it perfect. Right from the start they seek to have it all flawless with the “t’s” crossed and “i’s” dotted. They do everything they can to make sure they have all the metaphors in a row before doing the art, painting the painting, starting the business, or what have you. There is one very

They Don’t Care About You

Why do you care about them? I’m not talking about your family or friends. Though I can make an argument that when you aren’t present with one another, they likely aren’t thinking about you. But that’s not the same, because they still care about you. Who I am talking about is “them.” Those included in “them” is every police officer, clergyman, business mogul, politician, celebrity, and similar people nearly always distant from you and yours. When all is said and

Pick Your Battles and Know Your Allies

What can you do in the face of this madness? How the fuck did we get here? Why do they think starting a trade war will do anyone any good at all? Oh, right, because they only care about what lines their pockets and fuck the rest of us. I’m scared. I can’t deny that. Watching the nation that I call home being ripped apart by this ludicrous, unconscionable excuse for a human being and his sycophants is depressing, horrifying,

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