Profile:

I am a Buddhist and writer living in the heartland of America. I grew up on a farm and spent a large amount of time outside and in the woods, a childhood I would not trade for anything. I've been writing since I was 14 years old after a teacher encouraged me to never stop. I am inspired by the works of Thich Nhat Hanh, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Ralph Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Marcus Aurelius, Viktor Frankl, Jane Goodall, Kahlil Gibran, Sam Harris, and the list goes on. I read and write about various topics including Buddhism, suicide awareness and prevention, nature, astronomy, genealogy, behavioral health and psychology, environmentalism, politics, as well as some fictional writing.

Posts by Kephen:

• The Macrocosm Perspective
• Human Sexuality Defined
• Alone In The Dark
• Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance
• The Middle Way and the Turning of the Wheel
• Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape
• The Thousand Year Journey
• His Empty Soul
• The Choice That Never Was
• No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being
• Respect For Living Things
• ​Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy