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The Reluctant Pilgrim

This version of my online “journal” began anew in 2015, and I’ve been writing with some regularity since then. In 2019, I revisited and updated the entire catalog. By 2024, I decided it was time to start publishing my work in book form, and the process started again from the beginning. This is how The Reluctant Pilgrim series was born.

Fitting In

I never understood the urge to belong to something that didn’t matter — to chase trends, fit in, or mold myself into someone else’s idea of acceptable. Even as a kid, it seemed clear: most of what passed for “normal” was just noise, distracting us from who we could actually become.

Hate

Those of us in the know recognized, in late 2019 and early 2020, that humanity was on the brink of another massive deception. Few, however, anticipated the sheer scale of it — or the fact that it would persist until today, at the end of 2024. The repercussions are still being felt, perhaps more dramatically by those who bought into the lies and disinformation relentlessly drummed into the collective psyche in recent years. There is a lot of hatred in the air, and those in positions of power have done everything to foment and fuel it — through words, actions, and policies designed to divide and inflame.