Musings

Daily Musings #12 - prepared to improvise

It’s in my nature to prepare. It’s a bit of an internal paradox, as I also thrive in spontaneity, improvisation, and general chaos. Yet,...

There is an ease about me this morning. It’s all good, whatever it is. I know this because it isn’t. Many personal and professional...

The crickets are back. This happens a few times a year around here. There everywhere. Making manslaughter artists out of the gentlest of...

Another Monday. Greetings to the coarse, conditioned resentment that arises with me, ready to convince me I must join it in suffering...

September is upon us. I am grateful to have been raised in the Midwest for many reasons, but the fall up there is truly beautiful. In...

I ate lunch with a French man once who told me, “I can always judge a restaurant by how seriously they take their bread and butter”....

It's four days ahead of my birthday. While I've always taken pride in my forward progress through time, and embraced the ever emerging...

There's a princess in my bed this morning. A twenty five pound joy vessel of a two year old. Her love heavy on my shoulder like a...

The diurnal shift (slight as it may be) is the saving grace of a Texas summer. This Sunday morning greeted Ruby (our dachshund) and I...

I feel a bit surrounded lately. Constant work drama, coupled with the impossible task of parenting toddlers on summer break while Sara...

It's a strange thing, motivation. I often feel as though there are two of me. One burning with ideas, eager to chisel out my place on...

There is a new study being widely reported about how to protect yourself from the increasingly hot summers in a warming planet by...

Okay. I have made this connection enough in meetings, training sessions, and cocktail fueled venting sessions with colleagues and...

It was sometime in 2021, in the wake of the darkest parts of the pandemic and amidst a global reformation of civilization and priorities,...