Thoughts and Dreams

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Powerful Decisions Will Transform

21 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Gboyega Ogunmola Writer

I have believed for a long time that life is a series of events. This thought process only contracts what we expand. Life is shaped by the expansion of the choices. The choices that invite our desires to transform will stretch out the identity. The p...

Confident Expectations Work Together

17 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Gboyega Ogunmola Writer

We are all driven by our expectations of psychological needs. Any basic human necessity encouraged us to keep moving forward. We will be working towards the goal of building the needed mental capacity. This psychological strength is exploring our jou...

Lost in the Fire

5 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Disturbing.  Like looking through an old photo album that was lost in the fire, or opening a time capsule on an eternity in hell.  I remember everything, recognize nothing.  But a harrowing, exquisite nightmare it apparently has been.  Thank God, you...

Surviving Naija: The Real Reason So Many Nigerian Dreams Are on Hold

23 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites

It’s not laziness. It’s survival.   I’ve watched brilliant people abandon their dreams not because they stopped believing, but because life demanded something else.   Rent had to be paid.   A hospital bill landed out of nowhere.   A younger sibling n...

Chasing a crazy dream: Farm school co-op

15 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Firefly329.5

I’ve been homeschooling my kids for the past five years, and along the way, we’ve tried several co-op groups—some good, some not so great. But last year, we found one we truly loved. It was a bit of a drive, but worth it.   This year, I started talki...

THE ENLIGHTENMENT: Why Freedom of Speech Matters

29 Jan 2025 5 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

I have way too many thoughts in a day, often about random nonsense, so I thought it best to just get them out of my cluttered brain and onto paper... or a screen, rather, and see if people care to comment on them or not. Because sometimes, mate, bore...

In the age of AI I learn how to draw

21 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Lazy Bear

This is a story about my love of drawing and coffee... A long time ago, I wanted to learn how to draw, but as the years passed, the dream remained a dream. But what if I start walking towards my dream now? In the age of AI... it would seem that it ma...

The Diamond of Fate

19 Oct 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“It is a fearful thing to fall into thehands of the living God.”Hebrews 10:31   I had a dream last night in which I was in a military special forces group with Vladimir Putin.  He was the only well-known person in the group, but he wasn't leading it...

Happiness is found in the little things

12 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments hivers

Once upon a time, there was a house where the sun would shine brightly every day. A person stepped outside onto the patio and felt the warmth of the sun like a gentle hug. It made them smile and feel calm. They learned that happiness can come from th...

Gangsters of the Heart

7 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.  She bought a guitar. And lived in it, Too. Originally intended as a tool shed, this 2-story guitar (the power lines in the lower left corner are life size) may very well end up becoming my home.  In my dr...