Taking Stock
We have a tradition that takes place around Halloween every year, but has nothing to do with Halloween. It started when our friends, kids across the street, would come over to show us their Halloween costumes for that year. One year I…
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Taking Time to See
I try to pay attention when the same thing ends up appearing in my life multiple times. About a week ago now, I read an article, don’t remember where, some outdoors-related organization. It was the editor, as I recall, talking about running…
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Small World 3
I have written before on the ‘small world’ phenomena (related to ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ also known as ‘Bacon’s Law’), in fact a couple of times, including some unqualified statistical analysis. This seems to happen to us on a fairly regular basis, and others have told…
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Margin of Attention
Two Saturday nights ago, I was reading John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry in bed. I have read his previous book, Practicing the Way a couple of times, but this was my first time diving into his previous book. While his Elimination of Hurry book is…
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Lessons from Mom
With Mother’s Day upon us I was thinking about some of the lessons my mom taught me. She’s been gone a few years now, but the reminders of her presence are never far. Some are physical, like the plates we use daily,…
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Aged Wisdom
I maintain a list of thoughts I have found valuable, which include a couple from my dad: “To the extent possible, make decisions that leave the most options open.” There will of course be times that your decisions close off other options,…
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Level Up
Lately, I’ve been pondering the idea of fate and realizing that fate comes in all shapes and sizes. Seems to me we’re living our fate every day and on so many levels, it’s hard to fathom. It’s challenging to be…
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Secret Club: Sourdough
I’ve written before about what I call Secret Clubs, including stovetop coffee roasting, PDX Carpet, and Luv Ya Bye. As we become interested in a particular topic or skill, we naturally learn more about it and/or get better at it through practice and experimentation. We…
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Life [can be] Short
There have been a couple of plane crashes in the news recently, which has gotten me thinking. I think one of the reasons that plane crashes are horrifying is that they don’t happen very often, so they are news, which means…
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Stay Plenty Enough Already
An alert reader shelli stein (apparently I’m not the only one who loves the simplicity and lower ink weight of all lower case) forwarded me a picture she snapped of a sign in Honolulu, Hawaii, which had a speed limit…
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