Hey I'm Taylor. This is my friendly corner of the web. I was inspired by this post slow social media to start this blog. That and posts from Steve and Kh...
I was mowing the lawn with my youngest yesterday and I realized there will come a day when I won't be able to sit him on my lap while we mow the lawn together. No more pointing and telling me where to mow. No more grabbing the wheel and turning back and forth (much to my chagrin). So, no more taking these times for granted. Time is flying and I want to be grounded for each of those rides, or each…
I can’t let it take hold of me. Once it catches, it can take some time to pull away. I have to be mindful. Mindful of the things that need to get done. Mindful of the perfect conditions to get those things done. Half finished projects, the ‘for another day list’, exercise both mental and physical. It all needs to happen. So get up off your lazy butt and get that list finished. Nothing is stopping…
Let me preface this by saying yesterday ended in kind of a slump. I finished a hockey game in which us (a winless team in 8 games thus far) lost a second game in a row in a shootout – heartbreaking. This was after we were losing with 2 minutes to go, tied it up, gave up a goal 5 seconds later, then tied it up again to bring it to overtime. I digress. On my way out to my car as I'm about to chuck…
Man it's been a while since I've had the motivation to write. I think a lot of that is tied to catching a little bit of the winter blues (finally over), negativity in the blogging spaces (and in the real world for that matter), and all the talk about AI. What finally pulled me out of my winter slumber was finally getting out to golf with my Grandpop, who just turned 80 – god won't someone stop…
Alan Watts Boredom is the other side of creativity. Filed under: quotes Reply via email
Has anyone else tried to teach someone else how to roller skate? I took my eldest daughter to her school night out to a roller skating rink a month or two ago. Man did I feel like a horrible teacher. I had no clue how to explain stopping, skating, or even just standing still on skates, coming from someone who plays roller hockey. She fell so many times. I tried giving her space to figure it out on…
Every morning we have twenty-four brand new hours to live. What a precious gift. We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others. Filed under: quotes Reply via email
His brain was deep-fried. No, he decided, it had been thrown into hot fat and left there, and the fat had cooled, a thick dull grease congealing on the wrinkled lobes, shot through with greenish-purple flashes of pain. Filed under: book notes The imagery that Gibson gives in this novel is incredible. I had a little chuckle when I read this line about the main character coming down from a drug that…
The books in question are the ones that continuously make you enraged and/or depressed. And I'm not talking about fiction that has some sad parts that further the story, characters dying, breakups, etc. I'm talking about books where the main character has no redeeming qualities – a character who messed up their whole family and throughout the rest of the book continues to act like the victim. I…
I just read Eka's post about growing weary of self hosting. It's funny because I just reached out to fellow blogger Khem because in one of his posts he spoke about self hosting music. I love the parity that you find here on Bear Blog. :) I’m tired of paying these companies—companies that keep raising their prices—when it’s within my capacity to host my own services, ie. photo storage via Immich ,…