A Reminder for the days that we REALLY need them I’m going to share something that we all need to be reminded of, inspired by my nephew. Apparently there was some sort of program where elementary teachers picked some former students that are now in high school and share with them what made them special. I may be getting the…

(This starts in a rough way, but hear me out, this actually goes toward a direction of hope and possibility, I promise. It’s like if I want to go to the Jersey Shore I’m going to have to deal with New York City traffic, and the smell of the oil…

“People need encouragement more than they need advice.” I’ve seen this a few times around the last couple of days and it’s not a bad reminder. I’ll tell you this, the biggest regrets I have in my life (not the biggest mistakes, the biggest regrets-these are quite different) are all…

I came across this earlier… “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” Virginia Satir Satir was an author and therapist known for her work in family theory. This appears to be a decades…

Hiked into a nearby forest/ reservation today. It’s been a minute since I last went in. The whole area, for those who aren’t familiar, is quite massive, and also quite odd in that it’s not all one big continuous space. One part is controlled by the city, and other parts…

My intuition often is a source of frustration for me. Admittedly of my own doing of course. Part of my design is “wait to respond” and ego (who I’m pretty sure is playing the role of me at 16–17 who would do some pretty effed up things because the ramifications…

I guess I posted this a couple of years back. I’m guessing that at the time it was probably aimed toward the Great Divide. Lot of good that did, clearly… Today, it feels a little different, a little more personal. Sometimes this shit we hate that scares us has nothing…

Going back in my travel experiences and reconnecting to places that made impacts in their own ways. One was a small town in Nebraska that I spent a quick night in. Was never actually in the plan. I actually had a space to crash for the night near Omaha, but…

I can’t help but look at that first image from the James Webb telescope that’s popped up all over creation the last few days. First thing that pops up, as it’s become a habit of doing is guiding me to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. From this distant vantage point…