Waiting to be found by only you
Who knows how reality will continue to develop? There’s no way to prepare. When you can’t be prepared, be prepared to find poetry in the chaos. Secret messages, serendipitous grace,...
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I have no idea who celebrities are anymore
Julia Roberts? She was in that one movie with that guy, and the other one with the other guy, and like 100 more. Whatever. But she’s old news. Like all...
Exclamatory birthday edition // W26 — 2026
Today I turn 45 which is, if you think about it, half of 90! And also about 30 years older than I feel on the inside! What is age? What...
A bundle of bones // W24 + 25 — 2026
I have to publish this now, we’re already halfway through W26. Current situation: Monday 08 June: The U of Ark college visit. Zeke really likes it and they have a...
Do not bargain to be loved
“Gentle A gentler world begins in the way you touch your heart. Be soft with the light inside you. Caress your body with this breath. God is nothing else but...
This is it
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous...
A solid tradition // Week 23 — 2026
A week in which some things happen and some things do not happen, much like other weeks. Current situation: The pain of having children who become driving teenagers is the...
Adorable tiny skulls // Week 22 — 2026
Sunday came, Sunday went, but the notes can be week notes any day they want to be. Current situation: Monday 25 May: Memorial Day, also hospital day. Having to work...
Oh to be a snail feasting on a sycamore // Week 21 — 2026
Are these weeknotes again? Yes they are! Is this a fluke or is it a trend? Who knows! Who cares! Let’s do iiiiiittttttt. Current situation: Monday 18 May: Went for...
It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese // Week 20 — 2026
Are these weeknotes? Yes they are! Will I do them again next week? Who knows! Sunday 10 May: Got home from hospital shift around 7:30pm. Exhausted, hangry. Walked into a...
It’s a lot to process
… everything. I need to know less, but I know more. Trying to cultivate a life which allows me to know less while still participating in society requires me to...
GOOSE IT UP
I’m in school1 again. I’m going back to school because my work, my entire career, for my entire adult life, has been writing things for the Internet. That’s going away,...
When (not) to break rules
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler” A rule (or boundary)...
Contentment is a spectrum, too
I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing,...
This one goes out to the ones we love
“And he will never never never never never never never get to meet you And I got to meet you Yeah, I got to meet you. —Mikey Mike” I write...
Feeling something is okay I guess
“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think. ― Jill Bolte Taylor” If you’re not feeling as good about...
To be defeated by ever greater things
For the new year, a resolution“How small that is, with which we wrestle, what wrestles with us, how immense; were we to let ourselves, the way things do, be conquered...
To sigh a deep sigh of releasing
Today has felt like a deep, deep exhalation, an enormous, slow, long sigh of relief and releasing. Fitting, perhaps, that it is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year....
Do you want to read a detailed post about eyelid surgery? Here it is. With photos.
I find this sort of thing fascinating. I looked for detailed info before my own surgery because I like to know what I’m getting into. If you’re grossed out by...
Telling myself stories
To tell the story of your life would take another life of equal length. There is no such thing as a true story because every story, to be told, must...
Gratitude knows that there is always a gift
Whatever it is, let me start it with gratitude. Gratitude is fertile ground. Put in the seeds of your dreams and desires. Keep the ground watered and pull the weeds....
All feelings mean something but it might be something dumb
“If your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can. — Marcus Aurelius” What we learn as children programs us in certain ways. These programs run subconsciously....
Dishonesty is a rejection of life
Any future perfectly known, said Alan Watts, is already the past. But life is not in the past. Life is now, life is here, life is this moment. The only...
Fish bowl
Our very brains, our human nature, our desire for comfort, our habits, our social structures, all of it, pushes us into being fish bowl swimmers. Tiny people moving in tiny...
My new business + tech podcast
After reading1 the recent news about the unsurprising lack of diversity in podcasting — “64% of the hosts of the most popular US podcasts of 2024 were men…Shows with video...