I. I shaved my beard today -- well trimmed, let's not get ahead of ourselves -- but I did not pluck any new grey hairs from it. I don't promise that I never will. But I let them stay today because I've earned every single one of them. They are my stress, my maturity, my desire, my pain, my growth, my death, my reality. II. There is a monkey brain that lives inside of each of us. It tells us that what we think, who we are, what we want is not good enough. It only hears and see