I Am Is and Was ™ Album One - Track 1 By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ Namaste. 👋 Every empire has a first brick. This song is mine. Rags to Rigs didn’t begin as a song. It began as a decision. Made in a homeless shelter in Calgary, Alberta, by a man who had spent the better part of his life watching everything he built collapse under the weight of addiction, illness, and the kind of pain that doesn’t announce itself — it just slowly takes everything until there is

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A Movie Review By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I want to tell you about a man named Dave. I was young and angry when I knew him. The kind of angry that comes from watching the world seem easy for everyone else while you are working twice as hard just to keep up. Dave was one of those people the world seemed to work for effortlessly. The kind of man who would mention casually that a van might be useful — and a wee

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TV Show Review By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 What It Is is a three-season animated series that originally aired on Nickelodeon between 2005 and 2008. Created by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the show spans 61 episodes across three books — Water, Earth, and Fire — following a young boy named Aang and his friends as they race to save a world on the brink of total domination by the ruthless

Movie Reviews By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 James Cameron spent sixteen years building this trilogy (and he is not done yet.) Every frame of it shows. The Avatar franchise is one of the most visually ambitious and spiritually rich stories ever committed to film. Three movies. One complete arc. A world so fully realized that you will find yourself thinking about Pandora long after the screen goes da

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A Book Review By Someone Who Was Already Caught In The Web By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about a dedication. Not the book yet. The dedication . Because the dedication is where this story actually begins — and if you have ever picked up a book at exactly the right moment in exactly the right three days of emptiness and felt the whole weight of it settle into your chest before you

A Point of View on The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about the box I was hiding in. Not a metaphor. A real box. A single social media platform — X — where I had been quietly building something real in the one place I was reasonably certain the people from my past would never find me. Not because what I was building was not worth finding. Because...