Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

Penned Appreciation and Apology

I doubt you’ll read this, Starlee Kine, and that’s okay. You’re probably busy with quasi-fame, as well as most likely trying to figure out the Voynich Manuscript on an incredibly shoestring budget. As the months have gone by, I’ve been...

Hiatus

For while now, I have been in hiding. It has been a long while since my last post here on Medium. Since I began my first semester in college in September, I decided that my personal writing was to become...

Resolutions for 2017

Around a year ago, I wrote my first real post on Medium. Coincidentally, it was also about New Year’s Resolutions: The Best Time to Start a New Year’s Resolution is Right Now — Just slap anything on when you see...

Happiness

Often, I find myself wondering about the secret to happiness. Plato asserted that only those that live morally virtuous lives were ones that were happy. Aristotle wrote that happiness — human progression — was the only thing that could be valued in isolation. Aquinas...