Most people think honesty is about being good. It’s not. It’s about being smart. When you lie, you don’t just bend the truth — you bend yourself around it. You start living in a maze you built, and every step forward demands another turn to … Continue readingThe Hidden Power of Telling the Truth
“You can be weird, messy, honest, raw—and I won’t run. I’ll stay. And I’ll honor your trust in me.” Folks are mighty fond of dressing up love in lace and moonlight, but I’ll tell you—real closeness, the kind that sticks through storms and silence, ain’t … Continue readingIntimacy Is Feeling Safe in Your Weirdness
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” “If you build a business on lies, eventually the truth will come to … Continue readingDay. 29 – Keep Your Word— Integrity is Everything
You ever notice how folks treat marriage like it’s some kind of magic spell — sprinkle a little rice, slap on a ring, and suddenly two perfectly flawed human beings are supposed to turn into saints? That’s a fine bit of storytelling, right up there … Continue readingThe Way it is Because it is the Way We Are: Infidelity, and the Truth We Don’t Want to Admit
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. –Aesop A good reputation is like a well-built ship—it carries you through life’s storms, gets you where you need to go, and earns you the respect of those you meet along the way. … Continue readingDAY 7 – Your Reputation is More Valuable Than Money
Clarity, as I reckon it, is the fine day you stop trying to paint the world in your favorite color and just see folks for who they are. Not who you dream they might be, not who they’ve promised to become, but their unpolished, plain-as-day … Continue readingCLARITY
Friendship is a noble word, varnished in virtue and sparkling with sentiment. But, like most human inventions, it is prone to cracks under close examination. Humanity might be better off without its illusions, and surely, friendship belongs to that gilded category. For what is friendship … Continue readingThe Friendship Illusion
Honesty is such a gray word. One might expect something as simple and virtuous as honesty to be clean-cut, black or white, solid as a preacher’s handshake. But we don’t live in a black-and-white world. All our perceptions are blurred, smudged in shades of gray … Continue readingExplorations in Honesty. The Bright, Blinding Beast