Hi Crowd! I mentioned to you earlier that I had a grand plan for December where I was going to do one thing a week, completely, and catch up/get ahead on a number of things that needed doing. I was somewhat successful in that I did some of what I wanted to do, unsuccessful in that I didn’t get to other things that I wanted to do, but I didn’t get to those things because I ended up doing things I……
For many years now Tara has done the Polar Bear Challenge, that of course being the thing where a bunch of people all jump in the ocean on January 1st and freeze their asses off to prove they can do it. No hate of course, I appreciate the intention of doing something challenging to mark the passing of time and new beginnings but that particular execution has never held any appeal to me, so for……
For many years now Tara has done the Polar Bear Challenge, that of course being the thing where a bunch of people all jump in the ocean on January 1st and freeze their asses off to prove they can do it. No hate of course, I appreciate the intention of doing something challenging to mark the passing of time and new beginnings but that particular execution has never held any appeal to me, so for……
Hi Crowd! Some rando once said “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” You’ll hear this repeated all the time from thought leaders and life coaches trying to show you how happy they are compared to how miserable you are and that in exchange for a small amount of your hard earned monies, perhaps on a recurring monthly basis, they can guide you and… The…
My Brother’s Garage 3, 2018 They say appearances can be deceiving. I think about that a lot. How things look to the outside world vs how they really are. How you can sometime, if you look really closely, see the cracks, or the mold, or the chipping paint. But you have to be looking. You have to have a reason to look closer. At a passing glance, everything always looks fine. He always seemed so…
Water Tank, Fukushima Daiichi, 2017 Like most nuclear power plants Fukushima Daiichi uses water to keep the radioactive rods cool. After the earthquake in March 2011 radioactive water began leaking into the Pacific Ocean. Over the following years a number of different plans were developed and implemented in attempt to stop this leakage, including storing the radioactive water in giant tanks on the…
My Brother’s Garage 2, 2018 My brother was a mechanic. He fixed stuff. He’d go looking for broken and discarded things, take them apart, and build something new from their parts. He found a way to find beauty in the wreckage. From a distance, I thought he did that with his own life as well. I thought he was building something new from the wreckage. What he left behind told a different story. He…