I find the truth of progression through life to be interesting. As a teenager, I (as I’m sure most all teenagers) had a nasty habit of believing I was in the right for most anything that I did. I was clearly not in the right in many cases, and growing older…

In my personality and life, I’ve been blessed and gifted to come across both many small and many significant friendships. I’ve typically had a habit of assessing my friendships based upon the “honeymoon” phase of relationships — the period of time where everything in the friendship/relationship is so exciting that…

Being Philosophical -What comes of it? To my friends and any who read from the thoughts I write, it’s obvious that I like to think about a lot. More recently I’ve been thinking, a little too deeply, on the purpose of thinking deeply. Without over explaining myself, I don’t doubt…

Like many from my generation, in this developing world, my life so far hasn’t exactly consisted of one “home” to grow up in. …

I find it interesting why we like to chase dreams, never quite sure if we’re in it for the product or for the means. We try so hard and we fight for so long, we justify and never believe that we were wrong. So when we’ve arrived, and toiled, and sacrificed , what would you know — we discover there’s somewhere else we would prefer to go. It’s not because the dreams were wrong or because we sang a poor song. It’s not because we rode the wrong stride or because life caught up from behind.

Can a Book never read hold information? Can a sea never sailed know any land, If we never talk, could you see what I see Or will we remain like I was never there.

How Violet and Somber Are the clouds in the sky, How treacherous and betraying As they pass on by. Tempt me not With your ideals from above, But let me mellow And rot in innocence. If I had but a while To gaze upon your dreams, I know I surely Would have been lost in the means. Drift on cruel clouds Forever let me be, Some others May reach your heights But you and I know, it will never be me. Joshua Luchs (revised “Somber Skies” 2016)

As a video productions major, I’ve done a lot of research on what’s called the “motion blur” effect in video. For those not familiar with it, motion blue is the center point in the debate between what’s better: a lower, 24 frames per second video (what films and movies use), or…

How violet and somber, are the clouds in the sky. How treacherous and betraying, As they pass on by. Tempt me not, With your ideals from above. But let me mellow, And rot in innocence. Joshua Luchs (Age 16, 2012)