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Feb 10, 20231 min read

49. Life's Lab of Experimentation

I like to experiment with the conversation starters with my kids at school to keep things interesting for everyone. The conversation...

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Feb 7, 20231 min read

48. Holy Spirit

Flooding is a therapy intervention whereby a therapist helps a patient confront their fears. They will attempt to expose someone to what...

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Feb 2, 20231 min read

47. Thanks for caring

In the last 6 months, I made a big career transition. I took a sensational 90% pay cut to go and do more interesting work that I really...

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Jan 30, 20231 min read

46. Sensational living

What if the secret to good living is to find or create splendor and surprise in the small moments and corners of our days? All typography...

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Jan 27, 20231 min read

45. The mountains in our mind

I have tried to come up with all sorts of metaphors for what may be standing in the way of people wanting or being able to change....

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Jan 24, 20231 min read

44. Your presence is a present

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Jan 18, 20231 min read

43. Listen to your life

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and...

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Jan 13, 20231 min read

42. The human defrag

It is official — after doing two jobs for 90 days and a new job for 60 days, I am still in defrag mode. I feel like an oddly shaped hard...

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Jan 8, 20231 min read

41. Do something!!!

Thanks to Ted, I recently was introduced to Stewart Brand -- the famed environmentalist and futurist. Listening to him and reading about...

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Jan 4, 20231 min read

40. Be a holy dwelling

Yes, you are probably deducting that I love the word holy. For me, the spiritual context is huge but beyond my love for Jesus, I find the...

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Jan 1, 20231 min read

39. Sourdough Sundays

I have a longstanding and loving history with this blessed condition called body dysmorphia. She is like an evil friend that continues to...

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Dec 30, 20221 min read

38. Things I want to be when I grow up

These words continue to come to me. I had to pull out my tattered copy of 100 Rad Virtues to see how I have written about them in the...

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Dec 26, 20221 min read

37. Full of grace

I love the word grace. For me, it is hard to describe in words. What does it mean to be full of grace? I am not impressed with any of the...

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Dec 23, 20221 min read

36. Divine office hours

This is month two of experimenting with praying the Liturgy of the Hours. This is a beautiful and ancient tradition for Catholics. While...

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Dec 20, 20221 min read

35. Have [holiday] mercy

I don't even know where to start with my holiday feels. In short, I don't love the holidays for two reasons: the best moments of our...

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Dec 2, 20221 min read

32. The rising sun

I do an exceptionally shitty job of acknowledging...like really acknowledging the rising or setting of the sun every day. It is wild to...

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Nov 29, 20221 min read

31. Rescued

Who and what turns your sorrows into joys? Who and what have rescued you from yourself? Reach out to those people. Do those things. I am...

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Nov 27, 20221 min read

30. Just full enough

As the Thanksgiving holiday ends, I love the idea of reflecting on our lives and our year, that is almost over, as if we were beautiful...

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Nov 22, 20221 min read

29. Agency

What can I do today to make my day better? What can I do to help a friend or family member in need? What am I in control of right this...

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Nov 20, 20221 min read

28. Stay Stoked

I have a hypothesis that some people were born stoked, others need a little help getting and staying stoked and some choose not to be...

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