The one thing you must learn as a human being is humility. Humility in the face of knowing we are but brilliant flashes of light in the life of Mother Earth. Brilliant because we’ve developed an understanding of reality unsurpassed by any living thing, but as brief as a lightning strike. There, and then gone. […]
Author: ccharmon
I'm a graduate of Fresno State who writes for a software company by day and writes for my imagination by night.
Why blog? I blog for the same reasons I write. "Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after," George Orwell once said. I write because I believe a few of my words are worth listening to. Whether you make use of them is up to you.
My Mormon Friends
A few years ago I met two young men close to my age who were soliciting their religion. Mormon missionaries, having dedicating two years of their life to spreading the word of their gospel, convinced me to meet with them at their church and discuss my possible interest in converting to their religion. I was […]
Seward, Alaska
I took these three photos from a charter boat my father and I rented out of Seward, Alaska. Seward, a gem of a town known as the start of the Iditarod Trail, is a place I someday hope to buy at summer home at. I remember looking up at the vacation homes on the […]
Harding Icefield, Alaska
A beautiful picture I took on the fringes of the Harding Icefield in Alaska. My father and I rented a charter plane out of Homer, and the pilot – a quirky and funny European woman – flew us over the mountain range. She told us the weather here was chaotic and hard to predict, and […]
“You are the un…
“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.” -Eckhart Tolle
A Bridge From My Mind To Yours 