J. Redel

Where You Stumble, There Lies Your Treasure

Cabazon CA. Iphone6s with Blackie app

It is by going down into the abyss

that we recover the treasures of life.

Where you stumble,

there lies your treasure.

— Joseph Campbell

  • The One Who’s In Love Always Wins
    The one who’s in love always wins. It doesn’t matter if you get your heart broken; you’re living. When you’re feeling, you’re alive. The sun doesn’t care whether the grass appreciates its rays, right? It just keeps on shining. That’s you. — Ethan Hawke
  • Do You Count Dunkin’
    Prosing in StarbucksNo dirty coffee shops hereDo you count Dunkin — J Redel haiku Do You Count Dunkin’
  • Stop Looking For Someone To Complete Your Life
    Your death is more certain than your wedding day. Stop looking for someone to complete your life. You’re not missing a man. You’re missing the life you’re too busy waiting to live. — J. Redel
  • When You Rise, Kiss The Tombstone of Your Past
    When you rise, kiss the tombstone of your past and step barefoot into the garden of the future… — Maria Popova from poem How to Change Your Life
  • Then You Must Know About Grief
    Tell it this way: depression is the 30cm nail driving into the walls. If  you ever read about Plath… ever tended a garden it grew so wild to swallow god, ever kept dressing the fire in your bones, then you must know about grief — NOME EMEKA PATRICK from poem Sylvia Plath as an Old… Read more: Then You Must Know About Grief