“To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.” — Cameron Conaway Identity Copy Share Image
“The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.” — Cameron Conaway Belief Copy Share Image
“A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?” — Cameron Conaway Left Copy Share Image
“So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.” — Cameron Conaway Control Copy Share Image
“If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.” — Cameron Conaway Boiling Copy Share Image
“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.” — Cameron Conaway Peace Copy Share Image
“We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.” — Cameron Conaway Nature Copy Share Image
“It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.” — Cameron Conaway Life goes on Copy Share Image
“I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or wasn’t.” — Cameron Conaway Define yourself Copy Share Image
“We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.” — Cameron Conaway Choke Copy Share Image
“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.” — Cameron Conaway Different directions Copy Share Image
“I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.… — Cameron Conaway Art Copy Share Image
“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I… — Cameron Conaway Cool Copy Share Image
“My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything… — Cameron Conaway America Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat… — Cameron Conaway Bjj Copy Share Image
“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.” — Cameron Conaway Fighting Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.” — Cameron Conaway Burned Copy Share Image
“Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.” — Cameron Conaway Blood Copy Share Image
“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.” — Cameron Conaway Inhaling Copy Share Image
“...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.” — Cameron Conaway Children Copy Share Image
