I was helping my daughter put together her pinewood derby car for Girl Scouts. We were laying on our stomachs lining up the nail to go through the tire at the exact right angle. As I was explaining why it was important to make sure the tire doesn’t rub the wood she surprise… Read more...
We’re All In Need of the Same Thing
We’re all in need of the same thing:
Acceptance.
In love, at work, with family, with friends, in the presence of God. We’re hoping our jagged little pieces will make sense to someone else, that they’ll fit into something important and prove our life’s work w… Read more...
Our Algorithms Are Failing Us
Our echo chambers are only getting louder.
I appreciate recommendation engines and suggested posts as much as anyone but they only feed me more of the same. The machines, they claim to know me, to have me pegged by what I do and say online or in a store or to a speaker sitting on … Read more...
Love for You
Love is a lifeboat.
Love is a bunch of balloons taking you up up up.
Love is a formidable shield and the arrows that pierce it.
Love is a mother’s thoughts wrapped around you like a blanket, wherever you are.
Love is a perfect beach day when you almost can’t tell the diff… Read more...
With Dizzying Thoughts – Our Place In the Flock
Companies are founded on epiphanies.
It’s usually a single idea from one person or a small group of people. This idea is raised up, cleaned off, and put in a glass box.
Then that same group of people focuses on convincing: convincing each other, convincing engineers, convinci… Read more...
The Ache of the World
Perhaps it’s the work I do which requires the baring of souls, but I get this feeling that the whole world is aching, as if we’re all burnt and bloodied fragments from the same faraway explosion, a flash of light against the black, casting off descendants in pieces.
We… Read more...
Burnout
(45 sec read)
Everyone knows the old adage about the definition of Insanity – it’s doing the same thing but expecting different results.
I’m offering up a new one: Burnout – it’s doing something you’re good at but have no interest in.
Be careful.… Read more...
Automatic Growth
(1 min read)
How’s this for irony? I skipped my morning routine to write a book on the importance of having a morning routine.
Doh!
It’s so easy to slip up.
Even when we know exactly what we need to do to stay on course, we very simply just don’t do it – a un… Read more...
Staying Home with Hazel
(2 min read)
These past 2 weeks have been totally different. Molly’s out traveling through the jungles of Japan with Evaline, our oldest, and I’ve been single-parenting Hazel, our youngest. I stayed home so that Molly and Evs could travel without a clock, without havi… Read more...
One Final To-Do
(1 min read)
To-do lists are crucial to getting things, done, particularly new things that we aren’t used to having in our brains. Those that use to-do lists know how it good it feels to make that cross-out or check that box. I’m one of them.
I made a daily to-do list … Read more...