Brutal Men
"Brutal men clumsy in skill weave a warped pattern of their life and wonder how they become entangled in it."~Michael Kurcina. Make your hits in life count. Timing, precision, lethalness. Avoid drama, don't... Read More...
Unplug
Weekend is here. Put down the toys and do something that exercises your mind. Write a poem, play a board game, read a book, have a real conversation about important things, and reflect. I write a lot of poems o... Read More...
Stand Steady
I want to know whether any one of us would consent to live, having wisdom and mind and knowledge and memory of all things, but having no sense of pleasure or pain, either more or less, and wholly unaffected by ... Read More...
Just Words
Words have the power to move us into cold silences and into feelings of immeasurable delight. Words in some way can more easily describe and define how we are hurting. Words allow us to feel nourished or ma... Read More...
Resilience
RESILIENCE. And you grind and you grind. You sleep in the same shirt, and in the morning you put on the same pants. You don't shower and you don't shave, not because you don't want to, it's because you can't af... Read More...
Memory and Emotion
"Men experienced in war cannot easily describe the loss of life any better than they can describe the loss of their youth but they certainly can tell you what real fear felt like and when they first became a ma... Read More...
Jon Dufresne Doing Shooting Drills for Building Skills Pt 2
“The expert at anything was once a beginner.”― Helen Hayes
Quote attributed to X. Even the ancients knew. Xenophon of Athens was an ancient Greek philosopher, historian, soldier and mercenary, and a student ... Read More...
Rolling Thunder
WWJD: Rolling Thunder hit audiences like a freight train. Many viewers used to tamer stuff like Star Wars were unprepared for maturer stuff like RT, or Deliverance. Movies with interesting, real world plot line... Read More...
Do not Lose your Long Vision
To say that men don’t need reassurance would be a lie. However men must seek it out from the right sources and be courageous when things are uncertain. Today I was listening to old Gene Clark songs. He’s become... Read More...
Believe in Yourself
Have self respect. Believe in what you build. Don't violate that and you'll have power. Break it and you'll find yourself a slave to every opinion. Work with those that want to work with you. Often times people... Read More...