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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
December 27, 2021

Deep Cuts 05

Deep cuts heal over time.

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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
March 15, 2020

Deep Cuts 04

Deep cuts heal over time.

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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
December 3, 2019

Deep Cuts 03

Deep cuts heal over time.

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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
November 12, 2019

Year One Mementos

Tomorrow I’ll be releasing the latest line at 12:00PM EST, entitled, “BASICS.” It’s also It’s All Sad’s one-year anniversary. The timing was coincidental, which I thought was symbolic. Thus far, the journey has consistently taken me to interesting and unexpected places. Becoming a brand is one of those places.

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
November 2, 2019

Deep Cuts 02

Deep cuts heal over time.

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
November 1, 2019

Life Handed a Boy an Apple Tree

And so, as it goes, life handed a boy an apple tree. 

He ate from it whenever he wished and when it rained, he found shelter under its branches and he was satisfied. Life also handed the boy a pair of shoes for which he could walk to and fro, experiencing the world and all its wonders, but always being able to return to the tree to eat its fruit and find shelter. 

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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
September 15, 2019

Deep Cuts 01

Deep cuts heal over time.

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Stephen Shaw
Posted by Stephen Shaw
August 29, 2019

Overnight Success

Ahh, the good life, isn’t it wonderful? All the shiny little things we like to reflect on, share with others, and dare I say it, embellish, but what of the rest of it? Human life is littered with bad moments, bad decisions, bad relationships, bad careers, and is only ever speckled with a bit of good anything, yet we remain fixated on mostly invented nonrealities.

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