Beginnings & Endings
In order to embark on a new phase in our life we must fully extricate ourselves from the one prior. That transition, however, from one...
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Vincent Sell
- Apr 22, 2022
Collaborative Art
The best art, I believe, is collaborative art. The more individuals contributing their creativity to a project the more dynamic and...
Vincent Sell
- Jan 27, 2022
Turning Wild
I’m kind of a late-comer to the realization that we, as humans, are not going to be able to stave off a coming environmental catastrophe....
Vincent Sell
- Nov 3, 2021
The Drugging of the Mentally Ill
My brother’s experience with mental illness has been something that I have been reluctant to describe in any detail. The reason being, is...
Vincent Sell
- Oct 19, 2021
At the Heart of Healing
There has been a thread running through the past ten years of my life, which has been the audio meditations created by the healer, David...
Vincent Sell
- Oct 4, 2021
Invited into Silence
The first time I learned about silence as a practice was when I read the book, “Awakening Spirits” by Tom Brown Jr. I used the techniques...
Vincent Sell
- Jul 21, 2021
The Last Nagual
My coworker, whom I’d just given a ride home from work, invited me in to his father’s apartment for a beer. We were both working a summer...
Vincent Sell
- Jul 8, 2021
The Untimely One
I was introduced to the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, indirectly, through a friend of mine in high school. One day my friend showed up to...
Vincent Sell
- Sep 22, 2020
The Father
I was in my early teens and on vacation with my mom and two brothers. We were visiting my uncle who lived in Oklahoma. As we lay in my...
Vincent Sell
- May 19, 2019
Laughter
My brother’s sense of humor was one of the most delightful aspects of his personality. After he died, all of his friends spoke about how...
Vincent Sell
- Apr 5, 2019
The Breakdance Competition
There for a few years, back in the early 80’s, the breakdancing craze was sweeping the nation. I, in my small town an hour west of...
Vincent Sell
- Nov 21, 2018
Matthew
When my brother and I were in high school, and still living with our parents, I asked him, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”...
Vincent Sell
- Nov 19, 2018
Against Injustice
Injustice is sickness on a societal level. On the individual level, it can be likened to a cancer, which has the ability, in some cases,...
Vincent Sell
- Oct 24, 2018
On Writing Poetry
Poetry is one of the great loves of my life. And if I were just as enthusiastic about a sport, for example, I’d probably be writing about...
Vincent Sell
- Oct 9, 2018
Balance
Civilization is the artificial structuring of society. Examples of the opposite—the organic structuring of society—exist in the tribal...
Vincent Sell
- Sep 25, 2018
The Earth
Right now we are abiding by an ethic, based in the Judeo-Christian faith, that values the earth as something here for us to plunder. It...
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