By C.L. Harmon We live in a world that contains many other worlds within it. Understanding that we all live in these different worlds is key to finding peace and making sense of our realities. We live in the world that our parents built for them and us as children. We live in the world we build for ourselves as adults and we live in the world that we and our children create for themselves. Think for a moment of the complexities of living in so many worlds at the same time and how our transition into these worlds each…
This week I had a revelation…and no I am not going to tell you what it is. What that revelation is, is not really important. But it’s effect on me…now that’s something to talk about. It has altered my belief system that has been in place for many years. I don’t call it an epiphany because it didn’t come down like a bolt of lightning striking me in the head, but more as digging a tunnel and finally breaking through to daylight. This burst of daylight has forced me to look at things in my life from a different emotional…
I have referred several times within this blog series about this entirety of the blog is a journey. The interesting thing about a journey is that you end up in a different place than where you began. As such, I thought why not apply the same principle in each blog I write. This way, I take you the reader and myself to a new place during the course of the journey. I feel like this experiment of sorts to be a learning experience where discovery becomes a teacher to both of us. I mentioned a couple of blogs back about…
One main factor I considered when contemplating as to write this blog series or not was, will it help other writers. I wanted my trials and triumphs to be able to give inspiration to others. I wanted them to know that one can fight depression, work lousy jobs, feel as though their dreams will never reach fruition and still find hope in their desire to write. I laid the groundwork for this is the first several blogs. I have been slowly transitioning into more constructive and positive aspects of my career over the past few blogs. I tell you this…
By C.L. Harmon Is it not reasonable to assume that each and every aspect of our lives is different and unique from another’s? Consider the incredible fact that each human being is created differently. We are created in the same way, but are never the same and never duplicated. Although our hearts beat in the same way, pump blood in the same manner and break down over time in the same fashion, they are all different in the aspects of how we suffer loss and heartbreak. The pain we experience may differ, but how we choose to cope with it…
Unlike being a writer cramped up for hours in a room meshing ideas to create a novel with characters made up in their heads, a journalist gets to be a bit closer to reality. In this blog, I thought I might tell a story about one of the hundreds of interesting people I have met throughout my career. It all began with a phone call at my office when I was working for a small newspaper. I answered my desk phone to a voice that informed me of a man on a bridge riding a mule while leading another…
Success in writing or anything else for that matter is a relative term. We all define success our own way. We set goals and criteria which we believe when met will make us successful. As such, we give ourselves achievements to work toward. When those goals are not met in the time frame we want then the success is still a dangling hook in the water waiting for a nibble. This is how I interpret the definition. Yours may be different. It was recently pointed out to me that what I perceive in my head as to that interpretation…
The definition of true insanity is expecting those around us to always act with sanity.
Equality is not a question of race or religion, but a choice to treat others as we wish to be treated. Division between ourselves is not caused by natural barriers but by man’s flawed perceptions that inequality is natural. ~C.L. Harmon
Part 2 I am not a sports fan but I will use a sports analogy anyway to kick off this today’s post. A quarterback walks off the field to get the play from the coach. As he heads back to the huddle he realizes that another play has a better chance of gaining yardage. So he calls the different play (an audible) and runs it. Does it work or not? That doesn’t matter! You see the coach’s intent for that one play was not necessarily to gain yardage or at least not a lot of it anyway. He had noticed that…
Vision is not about what you see but about what you will see. Faith is not about what you believe but what you know. Morality is not an ideal but a life-long pursuit practiced every day.
Part 1 I have never found the expression, ‘The Lord works in mysterious ways’ all that comforting. Basically, this is the person saying it telling me that they don’t know why the hell things are the way they are. See…not that comforting. This is not to say that He doesn’t work that way. It’s just really not an answer when people are seeking them. This, I think, has been my greatest struggle on my journey to writing as a career. Every single time in my adult life when something didn’t work out, I was always reassured by friends and family…
Always take the steps, because the people who have to take the ramp, wish they didn’t have to. Commas never killed anyone. When in doubt, use one. Never be cruel to an animal. There just might be an angel in there reporting back to God. No matter how bad someone may be, if that person is willing to pick up a broom and sweep without being told to, then redemption is a possibility for them. Legality is a concept of man, morality is one of God. They are not always the same, so choose your master wisely. Always open a…
The first few posts of this blog series have contained a lot of negative such as depression, feeling of failure and the chasing of an elusive goal. But this is a journey as I mentioned in my last blog. This means there are good and bad things which occur as in any journey. In this post, I would like to share something profound which obviously had a great impact on my career. By my mid-twenties, the bulk of the bad depression had subsided and the depressed moods would come and go but it was no longer a constant darkness as…
In my quest to write this blog, I find myself all over the page, if you will. Like all lives, mine is connected from the prior day and so on. However, for most, their lives are basically connected in short terms to their past. In other words, they are probably not that connected to their distant pasts as it pertains to their present. For me though, writing has been a constant thread needling through my life since I was a teen. So my tapestry of blog creation may seem like as if I had a few stiff drinks before planting…
Maybe it’s part depression but I don’t believe it all stems from that. I am referring to feeling like a failure. I have felt like a failure for most of my life. Someone told me once that anyone can call anything they are doing a job or career, but if it isn’t making money then it’s really only a hobby. If that is true then some would say I have chosen to be a hobbyist for a career. As I wrote in an earlier blog, I have had a lot of jobs. Some of those were second jobs such…
For my high school graduation, I got a big heaping pile of clinical depression. A life of fun, laughter and partying soon became one of misery, lost direction and loneliness. There were specific events that catapulted me into that state, but even without them, I wouldn’t have escaped the throes of what I would eventually just call “my depression”. As I had written in my first blog, God had plans for me and to make sure I followed those plans, He wired them into my brain. Depression for me was liking having a sixth sense. It was as though I…
For over 30 years I have wanted to be a writer. It has been the most frustrating and rewarding journey I have ever known. A friend of mine suggested I start writing a blog about my experiences because it might help other people who feel as I do. He thought that it might encourage others to never give up and to continue following their hearts when all they want to do is kill the beat that can make any dreamer feel lost and alone. I hope that readers will follow along as I continue to add posts about my journey,…
Most of us never give a thought to the incredible intricacy of the environment which surrounds us. We squash bugs, cut down trees and countless other actions which destroy or disrupt the awesome phenomenon all around us. We perform these actions as though we have the power to undo what we’ve done if we choose. The truth is…we can’t. We don’t have the power to bring back what we destroy. What we take from nature, ourselves and others are gone forever from this plane of existence. The only real power any of us have is the ability to create and…
The right to speak, to be informed, to be heard and to understand are not free, nor are they easily attainable or kept. They represent the very essence of self and the expression associated with identity. A sense of self and one’s belief to expression is an enemy to authority.Control and freedom can only co-exist within a society when both are respective of the role the other plays and its importance in maintaining the balance that is necessary for harmony. Although there can be harmony, one must always be dominant. We can choose to be free with limits of control…