What a complete circus the world was yesterday! I always knew the relationship between Trump and Musk wasn’t going to end well but I didn’t have yesterday’s feud going down like it did yesterday on my 2025 bingo card. Elon went full thermonuclear. Some are speculating it’s all political theater but I believe it’s nothing more than the clashing of two enormous egos. Politics is such a filthy game few who enter that ring survive without getting dirty.

Soul whispers curl, a quiet river slicing clean through the din, no fanfare, just a subtle current that hums beneath the skin. Copacetic, we murmur, but the heart knows, it sways to unseen ripples, emotional tides that slip and spill, coloring each pulse with their silent song.

Here I am, just weeks away from beginning my fifty-fourth journey around the sun. How is this even possible? As has been customary for the past couple of decades, the days leading up to the big day are filled with reflection and mental audits of all sorts. I’ve made a habit of using these weeks to set goals, decide what things to devote my time and energy to for the next year, pick new things to learn, things to shed from my life, and to just course-correct in general. Two words keep resurfacing...pivots and peace.

"Indeed, no one can thwart the purposes of your mind—for they can't be touched by fire, steel, tyranny, slander, or anything." —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.41Life on Earth is not always easy and it’s infinitely more difficult if we’re convinced we're emotionally fragile or don’t have a reverse clause (back-up plan). How we deal with life’s challenges and hardships plays an important role in the levels of success and happiness we get to experience in life.

“People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks that life sets them. When they resolve to spare themselves the pain and suffering, they owe to their nature. In so doing, they refuse to pay life’s dues and for this very reason, life then often leads them astray.

Have you ever had a time in your life where you notice all kinds of freaky and mysterious connections? I’ve had several and happen to be going through one such phase right now. Some people refer to these serendipity or merely coincidences for the non-believers.