Dear Steele: I know you know this, but sometimes I forget, what people think about us has absolutely no bearing on our lives whatsoever unless we allow it to. I thought about this as I was sitting in the Miami airport observing the people walking by. I thought about the various times I had walked through those hallways wondering about …
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Dear Steele: If you were here I wouldn’t need to worry about worrying. I wouldn’t need to worry about who to pick me up from the airport. I wouldn’t need to worry about finding a place to stay. I wouldn’t need to worry about how long I wanted to stay here for. I wouldn’t need to worry about all of …
Euphoria before the orgasm
Dear Steele: My state of wonder is a constant oscillation between thinking I am full of wisdom and full of shit. What would it be like to experience life in a constant state of euphoria, like a perpetual moment before an organism without the culmination? The Yogi from Sex and the City says that is what his celibacy is all …
When everything turns to dust
She was my companion. She didn’t understand me, I didn’t understand her, and the mystery of our attachment was the misunderstanding of love. Everything that was important to us was fleeting and temporary, just the thought of which caused disappointment and pain. Inside ourselves we possessed a more powerful and eternal force that was the source of peace. When she …
Steele’s life in prayer
Dear God: As I stare into the here and now I wonder what awaits me in the now and then. The road I walked on last brought me here. I wasn’t alone, but I often felt alone, navigating through all the immensities in life with a sense of longing to manifest your greatness. I talk to myself without using words, …