PODCAST https://mattlr.com/ A long time ago, on a Saturday, we ended up in the tower cab of a tiny regional airport on the outskirts of town. Tiny enough that one young woman ran the entire…
Have you ever contemplated suicide? Not planned it, not obsessed over it, but contemplated it? Do you often label yourself as “lost,” or “broken?” How “lonely” are you? Sunday mornings, do they become dreaded signposts,…
Have you ever felt like throwing a chair across the room? In that moment when anger becomes more than data, more than a signal, what do you do? Have you ever visualized that movie-moment? Your…
The world is addicted to volume. Quiet power is a refusal. It doesn’t posture. It doesn’t perform. It doesn’t need to be seen to be real. Quiet power listens without interrupting. It acknowledges without fixing,…
PODCAST https://mattlr.com/ You know those days when you feel like throwing the table through the wall. When every breath feels like a clenched fist. When you can almost hear your blood whisper, “Do something.” That’s…
[Edit: TMI. This is a core page I wrote last year year. Some parts of it begs for a revision. Sometimes though, I can leave the past as it was, for now. 2026 05 15]…
Some finally reach the Guru at the top of the mountain. Drained, almost dying, only to hear, “Sorry, Guru Services are closed due to heavy snowfall. Or, merch is now available in all T-shirt sizes.…
We live in a world where people start online wars about whether the Earth is flat while ordering GPS-guided pizza. You can’t parody that. The parody’s already built in. We treat everything like serious projects:…
My late father-in-law wielded a lived-in phrase: “Speak to people in a language they will understand.” That’s a quietly devastating line. “Speak to people in a language they will understand.” That’s not just about vocabulary.…
“My gift is eviscerating idiots with words that cut until they bleed in the corner of their mother’s basement!” That was Dan’s claim to fame, one of many loud, self-inflated boasts from a man who…