Books from the Ancient Greeks you Should be Reading
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The writer Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote about the three decades long war that left Athens in shambles and Sparta the stronger for it. The Greek…
The Joy of Combat
Important Note: Combat does not just mean fighting overseas. Combat is the military fighting a foreign enemy, law enforcement officers fighting for their very lives, firefighters rushing into a burning…
Playing Pranks on Your Teammates Can Build Your Team Up or Tear Them Down
One of the best pranks I’ve ever read about was the prank played on American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon by a tribe of Yanomamo indians of the Amazon rainforest. I don’t…
Love should take away all of your excuses to die.
“If you do not use your own torture in an effort to end your pain then you are a fool who wastes his tears.”~Michael Kurcina You have to tell the…
A talker is all smoke, a doer is all fire
“A talker is all smoke while the doer is all fire and each must learn to control more and less of what they intend to be.”~Michael Kurcina Fire 🔥 is…
The Odd Gods of War
Oracle Do not expect a normal life when you give your heart to the odd gods of war. Cut up your heart and give every precious part to the dirty…
Defenseless
This is an article I have been dabbling with for years, but one I hoped never to have the cause to publish. I would much sooner stick to gear reviews.…
The Dark Night of the Soul Epilogue: Invictus.
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over.…
The Dark Night of the Soul Part 6: The Ferryman.
It takes courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. Even if the familiar is the cause of your pain there is no real security in…
The Dark Night of the Soul Part 5: In Sterquiliniis Invenitur.
You have no choice now but to enter the eye of the storm inside you. The storm of life or whatever you know it as, maybe it’s the deepest darkest…