Like I do early each Sunday morning, I walked out of my apartment to take a contemplative walk around Denver’s Cheesman Park. Complete with coffee in hand, the bright Sunday morning sun shined through my apartment window inviting me into a needed quiet space in the middle of a normally busy city. The normalcy only …
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In Politics, There is No Forgiveness
I recently returned to everyday life from a week-long solo excursion into the the beautiful desert of Utah. It has long been a dream to visit Zion National Park. Its remoteness brought closeness with God and self. Its silence spoke loudly to my soul. Its stillness brought forth peace to my being. Perhaps one of …
Shut Up & Learn to Listen
I’m a white, straight, middle-class, American male. These demographic features have awarded me a lot of privilege and paths to success (even though I would not consider myself “successful” by society’s standards). These demographics have, by and large, led to a life free of any real persecution and hardship that many others who have different …
Integrity and the Art of Paper Writing
I find myself continuously mesmerized, baffled, and befuddled over the methodology in which people write academic papers. I have seen some abysmal work at the undergraduate level, but even more distressing is seeing poor work done at the graduate level. While I understand that not every paper will strive to be up for the Pulitzer, …
In Support of the Bookstore
Local and national bookstores are dying out. Taken over by the mass digitalization of books (both as a medium and as a distribution), bookstores are closing one by one (or, as with the case with Borders, by the chain). I own a mere 435 books at present moment. Many of these have been bought through …
Former Aspiring Philosopher 