by markwestwriter | Sep 10, 2018 | friendship
What makes us becomes friends after being thrown together by the mad squalls and storms that life provides? What forces of nature cause us to remain friends? How do our friends affect the direction of our own lives? I met Cormac, a teacher from Ireland while walking...
by markwestwriter | Aug 2, 2018 | Love
When you’re older you have baggage. That baggage is packed with habits, foibles, and deeply rooted convictions that cause you to shy away from life, things that get in the way of functioning clearly and living purposefully. Many of these things are manifested in our...
by markwestwriter | Jul 20, 2018 | Worthiness
I never really thought about being unworthy until a few years ago. But then again, a few years ago is when my life became a shitbag of chaos which, in my case, forced me to look inside and deal with the things that were making me wake up to dreams of suicide....
by markwestwriter | Jul 7, 2018 | Worthiness
My last post was going answer the question “Why is feeling unworthy so epidemic in our society”? But I turned on the computer and my favorite background music, looked at my notes, and …cried. And I know it’s because I’m sad, and still perplexed as to why we treat...
by markwestwriter | Jun 25, 2018 | Worthiness
Why is feeling unworthy so epidemic in our society? In the promotional video I created for my upcoming book “All Roads Lead Home- Life, Love, and Forgiveness on the Camino de Santiago” I said: “Some people might think walking 500 miles across Spain is a big deal. But...