Everyone, no matter who he or she is, brings something in and takes something out in any given moment. What appears to be is never all that there is; no matter what we think we know or use as judgement. Each single part or person has a perspective that is essential;...

We take with us, wherever we go, the anything and the everything that has happened in our lives; the chains that bind us as well as the hope and the happiness. What is on the inside cannot be seen except when it is expressed on the outside; as a view into what is in...

"You can't talk someone out of being crazy if he or she feels crazy in the moment." No truer statement has been said by Ryan, or anyone else for that matter, especially as it pertains to substance abuse; and or fear. When addicts are using a substance or in need of...

The words "see you" carry the understanding that you will intersect with an individual again in the future. Ryan frequently used that phrase to impart that we would encounter each other in another moment; but he also said them in a conversation. In life we have the...

I believe in your hell because you do; as it has been seen from your position on the circle of heavell. I also accept it as being the truth for you; as felt in the heart of the beholder of all that has been in your yesterdays. But just because you have been through,...

Do people make consequences or do consequences make people? That question is something that Ryan had asked me to think about a couple of weeks before he became ill. He wrote that thought on a piece of paper and left it on a tray for me to look at when I had a moment....