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We are made in the image of God, but we are so stuck in one time, thinking about another time. Maybe we need to be more God-like in how we view ourselves in time, meaning everything about us is at once. This idea of progressing, of a journey, it is helpful in being gracious to…
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That sentence popped into my, head fully-formed, on the drive to work. It was unbidden, and not in line with anything I personally was thinking about at the moment. However, I would call it a synchronicity. Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the LORD…
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On Crassness This morning I walked around the parking lot of my office condo park. A few weeks ago, I attended a sporting event in which, “F*ck you, _____!” chants broke out. One of our office neighbors had a decal on the window of his truck – a stick figure thrusting into the word “IT,”…
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I’m regressing in chess big time. I’m like worse than average. What happened? One thing that happened is that instead of keeping on doing the things that helped me improve, I stopped doing pretty much all of it in favor of doing things that I KNOW aren’t good (exs. playing when tired, playing short-time games).…
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It gets a little harder to NOT spend a bunch of money when you have money. But it’s easier when you think about better uses of it. I think cash is a nice barrier because you can’t just zap it to whoever on the internet. Dave Ramsey was onto something with the “Cash is King,”…
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Thanks to a German artist I’ve only met on Mastadon, I found out about the “no-buy year” trend. I had never heard of this before, but my gf tells me that it’s quite popular on The Tok and the The Gram and what have you. [A quick note on socially-conscious and ethical trends – I…
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Un/fortunately, it’s common for me to read 60 – 85 books a year. In some ways this is great because of the breadth of experiences and learning I can get. In other ways, my reading life can become something of a chore. While I enjoy what I read, I sometimes feel the need to move…
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A confluence of events led me to, weirdly, “personal knowledge management”, the zettlekasten, notecards, fediverse, braincalm, et seq. As a result, I’ve decided that 2023 will be even slower than 2022 (which was, in the last quarter, pleasantly slower than the preceding years). Why slow? Because things are still too fast, too crowded. There’s not…
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In my lil’ beginner running series on Nike Run Club, Coach Bennett briefly talks about how finish lines aren’t really a thing, so much as the next starting lines (I’m paraphrasing). I am really enamored with this idea. As a recovering perfectionist, the freedom from worrying about my finish time or outcome is…freeing? LOL. Perfectionism…
