Welcome to The Passionate Ramblings of a Traumatized Philosopher

I was raised in the rocky mountains of Idaho and Wyoming on cattle ranches and farms. Coming from humble and troubled circumstances and having little access to formal education, I spent my time thinking about how to make sense of my world and the world around me. My already troubled life began to spiral as I experienced violence, and failings, as I was homeless and trying to survive. On July 27th, 2017, I realized that I had let too much of life happen to me and I chose to live deliberately. This is when I really began to shape "Esse Maxim." The Esse Maxim is essentially, an intentional willing of the lenses and assumptions we use to make sense of the relationship between the inner and out worlds. As I moved on from my past, I found a deep passion for philosophy and found it to be the missing method to what I was developing. I have a deep fascination for all information and their assumptions and examples of the psychological, sociological, physical, and many other methods of inquiry that will be used. Outside of writing and philosophy, I am a musician, outdoorsman, and person of faith. With a dark sense of realism, a bright view of hopeful optimism, and a love for all people, I seeks to engage and invite others to think those same thoughts that helped me make sense of my worlds via Esse Maxim.