by kimmel1972 | Feb 19, 2020 | Ben's Blog
More than anything, I get it; you want to find a way out from the hole that you’re in. More than anything, you want anything else except for more of the same. You want to wake up someplace else or be someone else. Maybe the problem is money or your lack of finances...
by kimmel1972 | Feb 19, 2020 | Ben's Blog
The world is connected by a body of water. We might be separated by the continents, but no matter how far away, no matter how distant the sea, connection is still connection. I saw we are the same way. I say the same as the oceans have tides, so do we. We pull in and...
by kimmel1972 | Feb 19, 2020 | Ben's Blog
I began to wonder if anything was even real. Are you real? Am I? Or, are these just words formed in a sentence to fit into a trained opinion of how life is supposed to be? Or is this just how things go here? Sometimes, I feel like I’m just a passenger in this place,...
by kimmel1972 | Feb 19, 2020 | Ben's Blog
I was a guest on a local radio show last night. The show is called “The Connection Hour,” on WFDU, 89.1fm. I love the host, a man by the name of Anthony Greene. I love the name of the show because everything we have, everything we do and think, and everything we are...
by kimmel1972 | Oct 6, 2019 | Ben's Blog
I am thinking now of a time, sitting on an airplane, heading from one side of our country to another. I am reclining back to a comfortable flat position. The stewardess had just kindly offered me a hot towel, which I accepted of course, with thanks. There is a...
by kimmel1972 | Oct 6, 2019 | Ben's Blog
There is more than one aspect to the bullying problem. This is important to understand. Of course, there is the physical side, which is obvious. However, the emotional aspect is even more punishing. This part lingers in the mind and hides in the cracks of our memory....