Jacob Landers
I Know Where My Happiness Lives
I picked it up and I put it down, I did this regularly for the first month. I picked it up and I put it down, I did this periodically...
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Jacob Landers
Aug 13, 20239 min read
A Saturday Alone
My knee is swollen. It looks like I am smuggling a baseball in it. Like as if baseballs were illegal. I hiked 6 miles today in...
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Jacob Landers
Jul 9, 20234 min read
Anger
It’s easier when you’re angry, everything is easier it seems. It’s the detachment of the feelings that lets you push through the present...
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Jacob Landers
Nov 15, 20224 min read
I've Never Gone Without
I’ve been up since 5:30, sitting on my bed, reading my news app. The ringing in my ears from the tinnitus is loud, not as loud as it has...
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Jacob Landers
Sep 8, 20226 min read
Monk Mode
I read an article this morning about an act called “Monk Mode”, basically it’s something you do to change your immediate trajectory in...
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Jacob Landers
Aug 17, 20225 min read
We Make a Choice
We make choices in the end. Debate, ponder, speculate, evaluate and then choose, hoping we made the right choice. Then we wake a little...
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Jacob Landers
Jun 14, 20223 min read
It's late and you are not well
I’ve nowhere to sleep, no dreams to swing from, no stars to wish on. I’ve warm nights of the sun still burning in the black of which...
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Jacob Landers
May 3, 20223 min read
3
She pulled the hangman card for my future, the third card in a series of 3. The Goddess, something for the second and the Hangman for...
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Jacob Landers
Mar 9, 20224 min read
What next..
It’s like I keep whittling my life away into nothing. Each strike of the blade, slivers of my life fall off into an abyss that is the...
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Jacob Landers
Feb 6, 20226 min read
Haphazardly I Go
In 6 days, I will have been home for 3 months and it feels like I never left. The way we reintegrate back into our old lives or normal...
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Jacob Landers
Dec 26, 20214 min read
21
21 years clean, there’s almost nothing exciting about it, like the time has become irrelevant. It no longer feels like a feat I have...
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Jacob Landers
Nov 22, 20218 min read
tiny trips
Everyone likes a tiny trip, a few days away from all the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Sometimes I forget how much a few days away...
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Jacob Landers
Nov 16, 20218 min read
It's a Spork
It’s all scripted ya’ know, every word that flows from my lips, out of my brain. One would want most words to come from their gut, but...
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Jacob Landers
Oct 22, 20214 min read
This Mornings Thoughts
It’s cold this morning, cold to where I didn’t want to get out from under the covers. Not the cold that pisses you off, the cold that is...
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Jacob Landers
Oct 5, 202111 min read
The Coffee Stain
It’s been raining all day and into the night. I arrived at the Great Smoky Mountains (GSM) this morning around 10 or 11, I had stopped at...
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Jacob Landers
Sep 24, 20219 min read
"Nothing behind me...
Sleeping in the city is rough. Don’t get me wrong I am grateful for Walmart letting travelers stay in their parking lots, along with...
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Jacob Landers
Sep 18, 202110 min read
unstuck
I keep collecting stickers, badges and pins. Most every state, every site, every shop, stop and grab a key chain. I’ve coozie cups and...
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Jacob Landers
Sep 8, 20219 min read
In Between the Cracks and Crevices
I’ve made it to a hotel room. I’m in lap of luxury, well almost, it’s a Hampton Suits. It’s Winter Haven, Florida. It’s Florida… At...
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Jacob Landers
Aug 29, 20214 min read
Houston and Beyond
I thought I knew humidity, I was sure of it staying in Austin a few times over the last 10 years, I was wrong… It has been almost 30...
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Jacob Landers
Aug 20, 20213 min read
Friday Morning Thoughts
This is where is starts, this is where is always starts, in my head. The doubt and the fear. I guess for someone who has changed their...
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