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Are You Deliberate In Your Daily Interactions?
Recently, I flew to another city. Right before I landed, I looked out the window and was spell-bound by the thousand-foot vantage of the neighborhoods below. This is something I do on every flight - but this time, I had a different experience. Usually, when I see all...
Three Ways to Hear Your Heart
I was listening to a podcast the other day with my son. He was somewhat interested, but mostly tired, so his focus was less than intense. In the context of the show, the narrator read a line from a C.S.Lewis’s The Horse and His Boy. My son sat up and said, “YES!” even...
Three Thoughts Toward Transparency
We would like to believe the best of ourselves; that we are straightforward and 100% honest. Yet, the reality is we have variations of opacity. Parts of us we hold back or magnify; perhaps we fear that the what-you-see-is-what-you-get version will somehow be found...
How To Dance With Your Fear
Fear paralysis - it’s a real thing. It stops us from going to the dentist or the doctor. It prevents men from initiating with a woman; or vice versa. Fear shuts down good ideas. It whispers that you are sub-standard and that no one would want to hear what you have to...
Black Friday Madness
I shun Black Friday. Too many people for an introvert. However, I did get a deal: An app that senses the daylight and adjusts your computer screen with a sepia tint that is much kinder to your eyes than the normal glarish blue glow. It takes a little while to get...
Act … Before it’s Too Late
I Have a young friend who just lost a close "family" member - those friends you adopt into your family and they are just that. He died the day before his 23 birthday. What a shock to all who knew him. Nothing profound or lengthy here - but you know that thing you...
Life Hacks
I was talking to a friend the other day about how I was systematically trying to change my internal ideology and how difficult it is to do. Partly, this arises from the fact that you are basically blind to yourself - you live inside you, so it's hard for you to step...
Hard Drives
I have been experiencing the "spinning wheel of death" of late. (Of course, do you even have to ask? I am a mac user!) The sad fact of it all is that my hard drive is in it's twilight years, and may not be with us for very much longer. I tried a couple of things...