by Darrin Johnson | Aug 17, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon, Spirituality
The iconic and incomparable Janet Jackson has cured an ailing music scene with yet another feel good musical summer groove. The ever-evolving Queen of danceability last graced us with her presence when she dropped the spiritually induced Unbreakable album in 2015....
by Darrin Johnson | Aug 14, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Ruelon, Spirituality
Hiding is easy. Subscribing to the Matrix and all its programmed bells and whistles is comforting. Pleasing family, churches, and our social media followers at the expense of our well being is celebrated, and encouraged. It’s what you do! We are creatures of habit...
by Darrin Johnson | Jun 30, 2018 | Fitness, Health and Wellness, Ruelon
There is something to be said about silence being golden. This phrase may sound familiar as it was drilled in many our heads since childhood. Particularly by our mothers, often exercising their maternal right to have the final word. I think of it when trying to...
by Darrin Johnson | May 30, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon, Spirituality
I’ve always hated the saying “when it rains it pours.” For starters, it took me becoming old enough to fully realize the brevity of those words that I’ve heard my father speak of many times throughout my life. As a child, I was such a dreamer and much like now, very...
by Darrin Johnson | May 28, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
When I was a young boy, I constantly heard from my parents, aunts, and uncles, that eventually, I would settle down and get married. I would go through the the traditional rites of passage such as graduating high school, college, and find a beautiful woman to marry...
by Darrin Johnson | May 25, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
Human beings are experts at NOT being human. We are hopelessly codependent on the love of our lives that continuously gets the sensuous touch of our fingertips and that long, passionate gaze. I’m not talking about your gym crush, high school sweetheart, or adoring...
by Darrin Johnson | May 24, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon, Spirituality, Travel
Gut wrenching laughter with friends by poolside bars, creating new connections with vibrant personalities from Canada, England, and Brazil, and anxiously awaiting the opening of beachside jerk chicken huts, may mean that one is on vacation. For many people, this time...
by Darrin Johnson | Apr 28, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
It was early afternoon on a surprisingly mild, spring day in northern New Jersey. I was deciding whether to get a gym workout in, or stay at home plotting my world domination. Okay maybe that last part was a bit dramatic because it was more like I pulled a muscle...
by Darrin Johnson | Apr 6, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
“Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the Jasmine in my mind.” Did I lose you with an unfamiliar reference? If so, for all you one genre and era music listeners, these are lyrics from the feel good 1971 hit Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts. I remember...
