“From The Mind Of Critic: 2025”
This is the twelfth collection of “From the Mind Of Critic.” The short essays can be flipped through randomly, or read in succession. They run the gamut of human emotions from love, to hate, to fear. Along with a healthy dose of politics, humanism, unity, accountability and truth, this collection will hopefully stir the pot just enough to start conversations. For if we simply talk to each other like human beings, we’d find that many of our generational issues can be solved. Emotions soften when fog lifts, making us realize we agree on a lot more than we disagree. We just need to get out of our own way, and remember, everything we need to know we learned in kindergarten.
Excerpts From MOC 2025
When unification is within our grasp, we must never let go; be kind.
We stop violence by making peace, not through slogans and catch phrases, but through conscious, on the ground work.
Finding balance and our role in the furtherance of collective evolution, feels like swimming in an empty ocean; where we’re only rescued once we realize lifeboats are all around us.
We don’t need to physically act like kids to think like kids. The goal is to use adult discernment with childlike wonderment.
To find balance we must ask an important question, do we want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?
When we’re true to ourselves, and kind as we can be while not being a doormat which gets repeatedly stepped on, the direction we need to put our energy becomes clear.
Exclusion, division, and scapegoating are the weapons used against us, we erase that power every time we hold our leaders accountable and responsible.
We combat backward thinking with forward thinking, which means including all of us.
Recognizing and letting go is an active way to not accept our fate, but realize we’re fully within our power to improve it.
When we don’t cede control of what we have control over, we consciously move forward in our evolutionary journey toward our full potential.
We must learn lessons so we don’t continue living in the past, but use gained knowledge to ensure our reality isn’t a figment of our imagination.
Living in the moment means not letting the past inhibit us, while not letting the future goad us.
Laughter is the best medicine. It frees us from our funk not by ignoring our pain, but shifting our focus to joy.
Keeping things light doesn’t guarantee they won’t become heavy, but does ensure we won’t get weighed down.
Self-care is the most important thing we can do for our long term survival, and for the long term sustainability of our purpose.
When all of us surf none of us stay on the beach.
Love is more than a two way street, it’s a super highway with infinite lanes available for anybody to drive upon.
Love is an infinitely laned highway with plenty of room for all of us, if we claim it’s a one lane road that dead ends we must use the onramp within.
Added color must be celebrated not as an exotic thing separate from our existence, but as integral to our growth.
Different colors don’t kill the tree, different colors allow it to thrive.