“We don’t need a reason to fight because the fight itself has become the reason. In that way, getting the shit kicked out of me is just another means to feel cared for. The fight is the shortcut to the attention we crave as we seesaw back and forth between violence and victim, using both sides to claw for love. How it got this way is anyone’s guess. Blame is useless amidst madness. But it’s clear to me that I co-author this chaos.” LoveFearFamilyPsychologyViolenceConflictAbuseTraumaBrotherhoodBrothers Book:The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“As the pavement expanded, his innocence was slowly buried under asphalt, swallowed as all childhoods eventually are. But the earth protested, bending and warping the pavement with roots and blades of grass that pushed up through the cracks, and he learned that wildness was not something that can ever be tamed.” LovePsychologyChildhoodInnocenceWildnessFathers And SonsInnocence Lost Book:The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within