The Philosophy of the Titanium Don
Ramblings

Category: Pathwalking

Hold Yourself Accountable First

This is about being responsible, not taking blame. I strive to maintain optimism. Not blind, all-is-well-that-shit-is-not-happening optimism, but a sense that the scales will rebalance, the pendulum can be swung the other way, and we can do little things to impact the big picture. The problem is, most of those little things are for you, and only you. No matter what you do for anyone else, you can’t alter, control, or change them. You can influence, guide, suggest, and show

Everybody Knows Something Until What They Know Changes

Parsing this is a conscious effort you alone can undertake. I call myself a modern-day philosopher. The focal point of my personal philosophy is what I call Pathwalking. Pathwalking is the notion that, via mindfulness – active conscious awareness – you can choose how you shape your life experience and what paths you take therein. I’ve been writing about this every week for over 14 years now, and aspects of it have changed because I’ve changed. Change, after all, is

Choices and Decisions Empower Your Life

Any and all control comes down to making choices and decisions. Many of the powers that be – specifically political, business, and some spiritual leaders – prefer that you feel disempowered. They want you to believe that you’re powerless, have no control over your life experience whatsoever, and that nobody but them (or their chosen affiliates) can help. This message is spread far and wide and is constantly bombarding you. Nearly every advertisement is offering to sell you goods or

Anger Itself Is a Natural Emotion

How you express it is another matter. Let me begin by making it clear that I am not placing blame here mainly because blame is an utterly useless concept. What I am doing is establishing a background to help us connect and understand one another. That said, here’s my story. My parents divorced when I was 5 or 6. This was the late 1970s, before divorce became more normal. As a bright, sensitive child, this impacted me hard. While I

Who Needs Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy?

Everyone. Everyone needs kindness, compassion, and empathy. Somewhere along the way, a certain sector of our society decided that being kind, compassionate, empathetic, and caring about anyone outside yourself or your immediate circle was a sign of weakness. They took this further and labeled it as being “woke”, like that was a horrid, unacceptable thing. What’s the opposite of awake, or “woke”? Asleep, or unaware. (Or let’s apply the thesaurus here, oblivious, ignorant, and unconscious.) Tell someone who takes umbrage

It’s Perfectly Normal to Doubt Your Path

Venturing into the unknown always comes with challenges. When I had the opportunity to write full time, I took it. In the 5 years that I’ve been walking that path I’ve managed to finish and publish 18 books. I have 1 finished now that I’m editing and am working on another. Additionally, I’ve put out over 780 blog posts. I don’t think anyone can argue that this is a lot of writing. I knew I wanted to be a writer

Can You Choose How You Handle Change?

Yes. But what that looks like depends on your actions. I write this frequently: The one and only constant in the universe is change. Change is inevitable. It can, will, and does happen. Sometimes it’s so slow that you hardly know it is ongoing, but it is. Other times, it’s so abrupt you can hardly believe what happened. In either case, for the most part, change in and of itself is neither good nor bad. Another thing I write frequently:

Sometimes the Answers Raise More Questions

Learning is essential to life. Have you ever had a big, burning question you felt an overwhelming desire to answer? Did you take any and every path you could to find the answer to it? Then, did the answer lead to new questions? Congratulations, welcome to the Human Condition. For as long as human beings have been capable of logic and reason, we’ve asked questions to understand the universe around us. Lots of things can be explained by science. Thanks

What Do You Do When You Feel Small?

Things happen that make you feel things and question your path along the way. I recently attended the Farpoint sci-fi con as an author guest. This was my 5th year doing this. As an author guest, I am given an hour to set up a table to sign and sell books. What I enjoy most, however, is that I get to take part in multiple discussion panels on a wide range of topics, including fandom, science, movies and TV, and

The Unexpected is Unavoidable

Things happen because that’s how the Universe works. At the end of 2025, I had an awful experience. I developed an abscess on my inner thigh that became infected. After a day of discomfort and spiking a fever, this sent me to the ER, which in turn put me in the hospital for 2 days of IV antibiotics. That was unexpected. But it happened. And I’m mostly recovered from the experience now. This past weekend, we got more snow than

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