When the foolish pursue wealth and conquest, they believe they have won when they acquire it. The wise know true victory is only achieved when one can honorably and transparently represent how it was accomplished. Anything less is a false victory awaiting its true defeat.
I work as I wait to return home from sea,because in your arms is the only place that I want to be. I have seen the end of the Age of Exploration.Because you are the only woman that completes my spiritual restoration. At every sunrise, I wait to see what life has in store,as I […]
A badge carries more weight than a chevron on American soil because the United States Constitution dictates that, but while a chevron protected that soil, it carried the weight of the world.
A heart’s course that is not laid in with loving hands on the ships wheel will eventually steer itself in the same direction as that which has wronged it. As hate, contempt, and entitlement slowly transforms that person into that which they claim to be against.
In this life, it does not matter how much adversity we endure. There are things we will never stop believing in, and there are people we will never stop loving. Everything that drives me, my passion, my faith, and my hope is because I will never stop loving the woman that hurt me the most […]
If words are a collection of letters telling a tale, musical notes are a collection of emotions communicating a feeling. The journey is finding each letter and note that communicates what is in our hearts as we seek to be heard, as a sailor in a ship that has fallen below the water searches for […]
To disarm a mercenary, you simply destroy their source of wealth. To destroy an idealist, you must have what it takes to destroy that man or woman. Otherwise, you would have been better served never to of set foot on the battlefield.