Here we are again. Reintroducing The Matt Kollock Show. Reframing and recontextualizing. And this is exactly the way I want it!

I said a lot of stuff in the previous episode of the podcast…

I'm back!

Guys! It's been, like, six months since I've posted a new episode of The Matt Kollock Show, and I'm happy to say that I've found my podcasting groove again. Or is it that I'm just avoiding the…

Hi from the future! It's me, the former you. I love that you can read and comprehend at a very high level already. That's really, really cool. Special. I know you can't tie your own shoes yet…

Friends! 

If you're like me, you feel pretty anxious much of the time. If you're like me, you feel anxious in a way that convinces you you're suffering from something other than anxiety; something terrible and life-threatening. If you're like…

Hey!

It's another solo episode of The Matt Kollock Show. Remember when I used to do interviews? Me neither! 

So yeah. Today's episode has me rambling a little about all the stuff that happened…

Hey guys.

It's a heavy time, isn't it?

For me, this time of year is particularly heavy. Of course, we are in the midst of the high holidays. Yesterday was Bicycle Day. Today is 4/20. The world is charged with…

I get my money by doing stuff for people who get paid by other people. Those other people are quickly losing their ability to pay the people who pay me. So I've been over in here in quarantine from the…

These days I find myself working through much of my spiritual curriculum during long-ass walks through the Rio Grande Bosque. I'm a highly sensitive and painfully shy person much of the time, so I require a tremendous amount of courage…

That's it. It's been decided. I am not allowed to leave the house until I finish this blog post.

I am trying to publish a new blog post every Tuesday. The goal is to finish writing it…

This week is one of the most unpleasant weeks of the year for me. It's the week when it becomes officially unacceptable to remain on vacation for the winter holidays. I'm also getting over an illness (more later), so I'm…

A close friend of mine endured a health scare a few years ago. It was scary and difficult to pin down. She was convinced it was a heart thing. Turns out, it was anxiety. My friend started meditating and engaging…

I remember a time about 25 years ago when I told a girlfriend's mom that I would be perfectly content and fulfilled if I spent my life playing blues guitar licks in midwestern bars. At the time, that was my…

I was diagnosed as bipolar some time ago.

Every day I take a reading of my mood/energy level and enter it in my journal. I use a 20-point scale where one is totally depressed and deactivated and 20 is completely…

I make music mostly because I feel so inspired by other people who make or have made music. It is not enough for me to simply listen and enjoy. I need to dive in and mix it up myself.

Become…

I was staring at this white screen wondering what I should blog about today. It’s Tuesday and the blog Gods demand new content. Then I remembered reading this fascinating article all about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s pregame routine as I was lying…

Hi there and thank you for checking out the Matt Kollock blog! It’s been a minute, so I’m happy to be back on track with this thing. I was just gonna take one week off, and then a whole damn…

Blues legend Freddie King, who went by “Freddy” until about 1966 (and who was not related to fellow blues legends B.B. King or Albert King), died on December 28, 1976, when I was 87 days old. He was 42…

I meditate every single day. 

Some days I only sit for a few minutes. For example, the other night I realized it was 11:55 pm and I had not meditated that day. So I did a quick three-minute sit. Whew…

Hello, friends. 

I’m sitting over the wing on the starboard side of a Southwest 737 as I write this. No gremlin on the wing; no “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Just a conventional commercial airline flight. Thank heavens.

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