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Doubling Down on Fear

I recently joined a writing group and had a turn to bring a project for feedback. It can be scary and vulnerable for anyone to solicit feedback from peers, at least it was for me. These peers are much more … Continue reading

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So, What If?

Appreciating small moments we string together can make for a wonderful life. We have the ability to stop waiting for retirement, vacation, the weekend for things to get good. Continue reading

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Veronica Mars to the Rescue

The cognitive gymnastics to problem solve real problems much less the fictional problems is exhausting and can lead to hours and sometimes days down a deep warren of rabbit holes that go nowhere. Continue reading

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Good Shit

What I didn’t understand until much later in life is all the shit is ultimately good shit. Bad things happen yes, but our growth from those things can be excellent fertilizer for change, for redemption, for later happiness. Tragedies are the seeds of resilience. Not all bad things garner these results, but many can. Continue reading

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Namib Desert and Stressing Out

Waiting was not an easy feat. Staying calm in the storm of uncertainty, slipping in and out of trying to find a solution to a not yet known end result was crazy making. The added bonus to this roller coaster was struggling not to spiral down and catastrophizing menu of what could go wrong. Continue reading

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What we leave behind

When I leave a job, a room and this lifetime I hope to have left every person and place better for me having been there. To do good things, to be thoughtful, to be funny, to be helpful and of … Continue reading

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Do-Overs

There are important skills and practices we learn as children that are incredibly valuable. Some of those skills we continue to use into adulthood and some that should follow us, don’t. Continue reading

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Candyland

In the face of the unimaginable, of disease, and questions of mortality things like whimsy, laughter and quiet love do alright. Continue reading

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Amnesia, Baby Birds and Struggle

A chick has to build muscles to break out of the shell. It has to push, peck, and struggle against that shell over and over to break free. In doing so it is building the muscles it needs to not only get out but to fly. If there is no muscle building through struggle there is no flight for any of us. Continue reading

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I Quit!

We are quitting our jobs in record numbers these days. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports that we are hitting the highest ever recorded numbers of people quitting since they started tracking this in 2000. This past November alone … Continue reading

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