2025 Recap
I have been sitting in a mental and emotional boat with giant waves like these crashing over the bow month after month after month. It very much feels like this…[...]
Mindset
I seem to be consistent with only posting annually. Not the schedule I had planned or anticipated. But life more consistently had other plans than I could make time here.…[...]
Visible lines
Paul Cezanne. Auvers, panoramic view. 1873-75. Art Institute of Chicago My favorite art movement is impressionism and Paul Cezanne is often associated with it. While I did enjoy the exhibits,…[...]
Voice
Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefebre) by John Singer Sargent. 1882. From the Carnegie International Exhibition. Painted in Paris. I started this site when I was in grad school as a…[...]
Looking
I made a small realization earlier this week: I don't actually look at what I'm doing. For the longest time I have been struggling, trying to figure out why I…[...]
Tired
Today I am tired. This is mostly due to a dog that decided to get sick in the middle of the night (he did this last week to in the…[...]
Adjectives
I've been working on values and what exactly they are and what they mean to me. The guiding definition is a state of being that I am continuously working toward.…[...]
Values
It is an interesting coincidence that in therapy we are just started to work on values. Without going into the necessity of therapy, the values study is a piece of…[...]
Badass life
I realized on my first train home today, that it's time to acknowledge that I have a pretty badass life. A few examples: I regularly get on a train home…[...]
Clarity
I've been sick for almost a week. Last week started with a sore throat late Friday and becoming a lingering annoyance Saturday. By Sunday I was feeling the full effects,…[...]