I quit the basketball team my senior year of high school because I wanted to get high.
I told my head coach it was because I needed to focus on recruiting, but that wasn’t the full truth.
I had already accepted a scholarship; I just wanted to blaze up after school and do hood rat stuff with my friends.
I wanted to feel free… Continue reading Hood Rat Stuff
Every morning, I pray to a God I don’t believe in… Continue reading In the Form of “Human”
I am the most important person I will ever know… Continue reading Alone on a Saturday Night
We would have no concept of age if our parents hadn’t told us when we were born.
The only reason we know how old we are is because we trust people.
If it weren’t for the collective observations of the men and women who looked to the sky, we would have no foundation for fact… Continue reading Collective Consciousness
The following excerpt is from three months ago, the lessons learned from heartache have long since passed, and I’ve found myself completely consumed by creativity…
Lost in my own manic sense of direction, my own insistence on maintaining a daily habit of writing…No matter what… Continue reading A Glance Inside the Minds Eye “The End” (For Now)
In honor of evolution, I’ll be releasing an excerpt from my book each day this week.
I’m going to start with the last narration I wrote before “ending” the production of “A Glance Inside the Minds Eye”…
Then each day afterwards, I’ll pick out something that will frighten me to share, and let y’all have it…
All of the posts will go up on this website, and, if I gather enough courage, I’ll share each excerpt as a status on Facebook. Continue reading Letter from the Editor
The only reason the world exists is because we have the ability to see it.
Without you, there would be no “me”.
We are shaped by beliefs that existed long before we were born.
We are governed by things that have been created by us: God, Religion, and Time… Continue reading Without You, There Would Be No “Me”
Last October, Jennifer Ann Butler changed the direction of her website by taking a personal leap. She had written an essay, a personal piece about her battle with depression. Prior to publishing, Butler spoke of mostly spiritual, holistic topics… Rather than … Continue reading I Survived Myself
An expression of existential angst in response to the habitual scrolling of a Facebook newsfeed: Continue reading Keep Scrolling…
What if addiction, eating disorders, bi-polar, ADHD, anxiety, over eating, over-consumption of social media content, depression etc. were just symptoms of a deeper problem; an inability to disconnect from a world that keeps us contained within a box of labels … Continue reading An Introduction to Jennifer Ann Butler
Inside the Minds Eye 