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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
November 18, 2021

In the Epoch of Human Ignorance

This week marks the three year anniversary since my first post on It’s All Sad™. What began as a simple blog to explore the trauma I’d buried over the years has evolved into so much more. The timing of the latest release today, entitled, “Peace of Mind,” wasn’t planned, which seems serendipitous.

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
January 2, 2020

The Ghost in the Machine

I’ve spent a lot of time lately trying to reconcile my past. A new decade is upon us, and I’m about to enter my 35th year on this planet, which in my opinion, are both significant signposts along life’s journey. More than half of those years have been “hard years,” and for the first time in my life, I can actually tend to my wellbeing for a while. 

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
November 26, 2019

Gravitas Impetus

I often imagine my life as something illusory. Not because it is in itself unreal, but because the life which surrounds me, appears at times, to not be alive at all. It moves of course, and changes, and adapts, in just the same way you might think a living thing should, but how much of it is really living after all? Living in its truest sense at least? Not just simply here as a reactant caught within some grand experiment. 

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
October 15, 2019

I Feel Like This

One of the most powerful Kanye West songs ever released is probably one you’ve never heard. Once in a while, it resurfaces on the internet, I happen to stumble across it, and inevitably, I cry. Yesterday, I did that just that. I held my wife in my arms as we listened to it and I cried. 

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
February 15, 2019

Will the Wall Save Capitalism and Other Divisions of Our Minds

I’ve employed many coping mechanisms for living with depression over the years. Admittedly, some have proven detrimental, however, there are many that have proven to be quite beneficial. One such mechanism, is skepticism. In essence, I question everything. In my world, the glass is neither half empty, nor half full, and I’m cautious of anybody willing to suggest otherwise. 

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