You could see him in the distance. A familiar person dressed for warmth on a cold winter’s day. Walking the other way. The sky and your mind had been grey for days. But today is sunny. Blue sky. A gentle breeze. A radiant day for a walk. He is closer now. Your pace does not READ MORE
Brian Alger is a musician, writer, educator, and retired entrepreneur passionate about creativity.
On Waking
There is a moment upon waking when the nocturnal tides begin to recede, but you do not recognize where you are. Or who you are. It is inside this fleeting transition that you can make yourself. Or break yourself. Remember all the mornings you awoke already mired in a frenzied unconsciousness? So many things to READ MORE
Continue On
Sometimes, when you lose your way, you become disappointed in yourself. Your plans, even the ones forged in spiritual wildfires, have not revealed the desired way. The way you need to make you feel at home in it all. To be all you can be or, some say, what you were meant to be. Then, READ MORE
There is a Mystery Moving Through You
Aging is the experience of time moving through you. You cannot control, deny, or evade it. The experience of becoming old is the primal expression of time. The wild, feral forces of nature animate you. Your presence here is transient. A momentary participant inside the great flow of life that is your home. Your presence READ MORE
On Enduring Difficult Situations
SometimesYou will find yourself in difficult situations,That linger, frustrate, and refuse to relent.As your anxiety intensifiesRumination, frustration, and exhaustionAre sure to follow,And gradually you become something less than yourselfUntil all that remainsIs an unwelcome stranger;An encounter with your shadow. SometimesWhen you are mired inside the stress of your circumstance,Faithful to the principleOf misery demanding company,The READ MORE
There Is No Way Back
You hear about reconnecting with the world. You try to find your way back. But there is no way back to what was because it no longer exists. Let your grief be your advisor and teach you about the inevitability of loss. Refuse to inhabit sadness and begin move toward what cannot yet be seen. READ MORE
Learning to Breathe Again
When did you lose the natural wayThe way that was given to you at birthOf breathing peacefullyWithout the need for self-attendance? Our release from the traumaDuring this humbling pandemic,From the loneliness imposedBy spending too much time with our thoughtsAnd the distressOf keeping a safe distance from the world,Will begin by learning to breathe again Ask READ MORE
Why Productivity Inhibits Creative Work
Time management is a technology designed to coordinate activities involving groups of people. Effective time management is the foundation for organizational efficiency and productivity. The genesis of productivity is the industrial age, and therefore mechanization, analysis, and systemization. The digital age has accelerated and intensified industrial age productivity. Rather than being used creatively, networked technologies READ MORE
The Space Between Words and Life
What can you possibly write, After all these years Of forgetting your own words, That matters? All the abandoned thoughts Forgotten ideas Lost potential, Exiled within Graveyards of paper And writing That died too soon. You have taken the easy path As if just writing was enough, Never questioning Your own stifling assumptions And unexamined READ MORE