Why divergent thinkers can’t help but do something
Life is hardly ever wasted. It can be under-appreciated; you can miss the joy and beauty and wonder of it all, and some might call that a waste. But if you pay attention, if you…
Category: selfulness
You are perfect as you are, and only getting better
The good thing about Monday mornings is reading an email from Mark Manson. Today, he made mention about how life will always have a tension between being perfect as you are right now, and the…
Don’t Think…Just Do
Like the rest of ‘murca over Memorial Day weekend, I watched Top Gun: Maverick. There’s a critical scene where the rally cry is don’t think just do. You’d think this would be a post where…
impact is not the same as contribution
the ocean has impact; a starfish has contribution. we need your contribution regardless of the scale of impact. …
connection is the key
there is one theme that that seems to cross all forms of literature. the poets wax poetical about it; the novelists novelize it; the self-help gurus promote it, the psychologists prescribe it. except, they don’t…
what you’ve been waiting for…
i do hereby give you permission to have fun today. to do the brave thing. to try and fail and to try again. i give you permission to put effort toward something that may not…
perhaps a practice is about balance and being
when i lived alone, i would spend the first hour of my day drinking coffee, journaling, and singing Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen while playing my guitar or my piano. i just needed something to prove…
the proper care and feeding of a healthy relationship
i have a bad relationship with relationship advice the longer you stick around here, the more you’ll discover that i love talking about relationships. i blame my brain’s symmetrical Central Sulcus developed by years of…