The Window Into My Mind

Welcome to “The Life and Mind of No One Special,” a community where philosophers, theologians, profound thinkers, poetry lovers, and everyone in-between, can come together for the melding of minds. In trying to find the proper words to describe this blog only two words come to mind “personal” and “random.” My site is a personal invitation inside the inner workings of my mind, and a window into my very being. I write about my personal struggles with my mental illness. I talk about my personal journey to find answers to questions which have no answers, such as my search to find meaning between nothingness and faith. I have no clear agenda when I sit down to write my posts. There is no preparation or thought I put into it. I simply sit back grab a random thought from the millions of endless racing thoughts shooting around in my head. I just quickly grab one and go with it. There is no rhyme or reason to this site, it is simply chaotic yet somehow exists in perfect order. This is my personal journey to find understanding in a meaningless universe.

“The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”
Peter Abelard

About me: I am a published author, and founder of The Bucket List Foundation. Thru the art of writing I have found a way to express the spectrum of my emotions.  I enjoy the feeling of pen to paper and allowing the feelings I have inside to pour out, good, bad or in-between.  I pride myself on the ability to write both dark and light material. My strength and passion are in poetry, although a dying breed, I still feel as though it is the purest way to truly share inner emotions of the human psyche.  I bring the pain of personal struggles in life to my dark writing, each of my dark books are full of private pains endured. The poems are twisted and ominous and will take your mind to a place that will haunt your dreams. My lighter side finds the love and enjoyment I have experienced in my life. The poems are sensual and tender. The soft words will fill your heart with fond nostalgia of times you have loved another and inspire you to tell the ones you care for just how important they are.

The child in me comes out in what I hope to be the most successful of my endeavors, the Dylan Thomas series.  I feel jubilant and youthful when I carve out this style of writing. I giggle at the words I see on the paper, although silly, it also encompasses the rituals and experience that life has brought me as a father. When I write based off current interactions with my children and wife I find a sense of wistfulness that can only truly be captured in the mind of a child.

In the end my goal is to use the written word to inspire another. To know that somewhere in the world someone is reading one of my pieces and has a reaction, whether it is sadness, love, joy, or a laugh. Knowing my words have provoked a sensation is the greatest reward you can ever have as a writer.

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

~ E. L. Doctorow