Robert Hiraeth

Stories, thoughts, and the spaces between.

Cartoon

What’s your favorite cartoon? Favorite cartoon? That would have to be “Home Movies”. Loren Bouchard’s early project about three kids and the films they make with the help of some strange friends and their VHS camcorder. Early appearance of H Jon Benjamin who voices Coach McGuirk, a criminally irresponsible soccer coach. It took a few…

Robert Hiraeth

9th December 2025

Essays & Reflections

dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2147
Why I Have to Mourn

I started writing about all of my friends and brothers that I’ve lost over the last couple of years, just from this small three unit space. The list itself is too long, and I refuse to just put names into the ether without telling the world a little about each one. Alex was the latest.…

Robert Hiraeth

20th November 2025

Essays & Reflections

bearing witness, correctional officers, criminal justice reform, grief and loss, incarceration, inside perspective, institutional violence, lived experience, mass incarceration, mental health crisis, mourning, prison conditions, prison grief, prison reform, prison suicide, prison writing, social justice, suicide crisis, systemic failure, Washington State Penitentiary
What everyone should know

What’s something you believe everyone should know. That your life has meaning. That it’s NOT some insignificant little nothing within the vastness of an unfathomable cosmos. Value isn’t assigned to things that are common. Deep and unconditional love isn’t valued because it happens every day to everyone all of the time. I saw a hummingbird…

Robert Hiraeth

29th October 2025

Essays & Reflections

appreciation, cosmic insignificance, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2107, everyday beauty, existentialism, garden, gratitude, hummingbirds, life lessons, living in the moment, meaning of life, mindfulness, mortality, nature, nihilism, perspective, Philosophy, purpose, self-reflection, short life, thunderstones

Cartoon

Why I Have to Mourn

What everyone should know