Rigidity and Fluidity

Here we are: One week in to 2024. I hope it’s been a good one for you. Like many of you, I got up on that first day with a plan (more or less). I intended to start exploring, and making progress on the things I’d talked about Last Week. I was going to get …

Looking Ahead

Welcome to the final post of 2023. For the past week, I’ve been reflecting on 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. Like most years, 2023 had its share of ups and downs but, on the whole, there were more ups than downs. While I can’t say I’m done looking forward yet, I have got the …

Getting an Early Start

I’m composing this earlier in the week, though that’s not why I chose the title that I did. When this goes live, it will be Sunday, December 17th, and I am looking at time off until the turn of the year. This was planned – in fact, even necessary. If you don’t use it, you …

Picking up the Pace

December isn’t quite like other months, is it? It feels like there is a whole bunch of “Hurry up” going on, especially after Thanksgiving. It seems like I’ve only just made the last cold turkey sandwich and scarfed down the last of the mashed potatoes and here it is, almost halfway through December. Adding to …

Post Thanksgiving Reflections

As I was composing this years Five-Thanks Thursday I noticed that it was practically identical to the Five-Thing list I’d posted the year before. I suppose that shouldn’t have surprised me. It was, after all, a list of the five things that I’m most thankful for and, while 2023 has had it’s moments, none of …

The Ritual of Life

One of the many things that I enjoy about Fountain Pens is refilling them. I enjoy refilling them because I can recognize that I’m not just loading ink into a pen – which I most assuredly am. More importantly, I’m loading that pen with Potential. I could write anything with that ink. Go anywhere. But …

Chasing the Sunset

I don’t think it’ll come as a surprise to any of you reading this that I’m not the biggest fan of Daylight Saving Time. Primarily due to the whole messing with your sleep thing. You have about half a year to get used to the pattern after the last change, only to go back again. …

The To Don’t List

I just finished listening to the audiobook of Good to Great by James Collins and I ran across this concept. If you know me at all, you’ll know that I love me a good list. I write them out by hand – which I also love doing – and the one I create the most, …