Nolesrock's Blog

This guy speaks truth. What do we really “own?” We are temporary, finite creatures on this planet. We have things we USE. He calls it a basi...

I have situational depression. It doesn’t make me suicidal. It just takes me to a bad headspace and holds me captive for a time. It doesn’t ...

The year after my mom died really sucked. I wasn't ready to experience grief like that. I wrote that December just how awful it was . Th...

SUICIDE IS NO JOKE. Our history, collectively, with mental illness is not good. We've forever made it the butt of jokes, quickly labeled...

That was the theme of my morning journal entry today, 12 Oct 2022. Two-point-O, you ask? Well, let me take you back to my blog post on the v...

Alright, folks, we've come to the TOP TWO reasons I'm moving to Belize!  I need to get out of the U.S., but I am unilingual. You...

 Here's a short video on the cost of living in Belize. As you can see, one can live comfortably in Belize on about half as much as you...

Watch this video (listen really): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-D2_G9w5c I've listened to several Alan Watts' clips, but never ...

I am intentional with my words. I am trying to be more intentional with my thoughts, too, but they are sometimes harder to reign in. I am in...

Haven't posted in awhile. Life happens. 2020 is different, though. We've faced a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. America has lost almos...

I've been talking to my bus driver, Connie, who runs the SouthWood Route. She's also a full-time minister who, in addition to shuttl...

It's Lent and the exercise is pretty self-explanatory. I wrote myself the first note on Ash Wednesday (yesterday) after finding thi...

When I posted twice on Christmas Day about my day of volunteer service, I wasn't attempting to blow my own horn. It was just a ver...

I've been saying the Serenity Prayer a lot, lately. Not the verbatim prayer (at left) that you'll hear at most A.A. meetings or se...

It's crazy, sometimes, the path life's journey takes you down. It's never what you expect. It's always ripe with surprise...

Hard to believe, but in April this blog will be seven years old. I know I haven't been a consistent blogger. As you'll notice in t...

...how would you know it? This is a question I've been pondering since all of Christendom just celebrated the high holy day of Easter. A...

Some of you may not know that "in another life" I worked as a radio personality and semi-professional drummer. The short-lived smo...