A little before and after of what I’m working on right now…
Category: thought
Lit up like a sparkler – Robin Sloan
I am trying to be better, when it’s appropriate, at starting and finishing with “I don’t know”. I aim to become a world champion.
A worthy and achievable goal.
Buddhism Without Beliefs – Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Just as contemporary agnosticism has tended to lose its confidence and lapse into skepticism, so Buddhism has tended to lose its critical edge and lapse into religiosity.
When I say that I’m a “small b buddhist” this is exactly what I mean.
Before and afters of today’s morning project…
The goal of discovering who you are and what you love is learning embrace who you are and what you love so that you can find that anywhere, doing anything.
I’ve got so many written drafts of things hanging around. Pieces really. Things I’ve not had the time/space/thoughts to develop further. Considering just hitting publish on them and letting the reader fill in the blanks until I have the gumption to return to them. Just to get them “out there”.
The truth is: we all have books that are already written…somewhere. They live in our blogs, social feeds, and notes. It’s the constraints and strategy, and the decision to ship, that eludes us.
Current Thought Pattern: Trying to figure out how much time “thinking through it” adds to a project. 10%? 15%?
Not entirely sure but it’s not insignificant.
I’m currently rebuilding a deck and it occurred to me how strange it would be to anyone seeing me how much of my time is spent just standing looking a it, deep in thought. But that time thinking through it is, perhaps, the most important part.
Kurt cleaned the garage yesterday. . .
Planting today. Digging in the dirt. Nothing of importance is often the most important.
I’ve spent the past couple of days on a rebuild of the back deck.
My wife was busy planting by the fence.
It’s all important.
Welcome to the Neighborhood — Bethany Gladhill
We are currently in strong danger of losing a great number of the properties that clearly represent our larger patterns of history, the kinds of places where people from throughout the community gathered (and continue to gather), like this one.