Christopher Bowen's Blog, page 11

Change & So Small a Salute

  Well, one of my favorite Cleveland bookstores is closing at the end of the month, the place I held my first reading at, a place as a writer in Cleveland I’m only now beginning to recognize stood for so much of my identity as a writer–and that towards others. It strikes me in many […]

Reminiscing About The Future

So, I was admitted into Cleveland State University’s Monte Ahuja Undergraduate School of Business mid-summer without paying the application fee. And I considered the effort and application unfinished. But today I made an important phone call for my own happiness, well-being and fulfillment. Today I phoned Dr. Ted Lardner, academic advisor for the English department. […]

Metaphorical & Spiritual Concepts of the Garden

I’ve become one of those readers that not only reads, marks, or quotes from physical, hard-bound books, but also reads multiple texts at the same time over a period of time. Recently, I sat down to reread Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (I hadn’t read it since late high school) and concurrently have been reading Iron John: […]

Perseverance in Blood, Sweat, & Tears

  These are the things that make us whole beings, physical and soulful beings, that can get through anything that we chose or chooses us.   This summer has been an extremely long and difficult one for myself, my family, but mostly myself. A series of otherwise tragedies struck me personally within weeks of themselves […]

Forgiving Yourself

About this time last year, last July or August, I made a commitment to myself to fulfill a change. Through years of working and going to school, I had put off my health and lifestyle and had earnestly began to become set in my ways. I finally made a long-term commitment, giving myself a year, […]

Being Vocal On Respect

I’m a lot less needy of a person in life anymore. A lot less needy for a lot of things and not because I have everything I could ever want, but because I choose to be. I had a conversation with my younger brother recently that made vocal one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned […]

I Am So Aware Now…

Sometimes, I feel I have lived an extremely hard life over the years, some hardships no person should really ever have to endure. I have lived through and in very dark, cold and alone places and much of that experience has shaped me and my humanity, even my writing. But I am so aware now. […]

I am alive, you are, and we have so much to offer the world, forever…

Challenging Yourself

So it’s 5 a.m. here in Cleveland and I just got done watching a couple of motivational speeches on Youtube. One by Steve Jobs, the other by someone I’d never heard of. And soon, I will be going to work. I work as a means to an end. When I’m not working, I’m working on myself […]

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