Writing. Productivity. Passion. Purpose.
I’ve been looking back to 2025, and wondering where the year went. It was such a pivotal year, and month by month, I wanted to review. Give myself a log of what happened:
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Contemplation is one thing, my pride is another, to paraphrase. We can look back on our own lives, and see all the ways in which it splices, how every decision begets another decision, until you are where you are. I can tell you how I got here, but I’ve found myself daydreaming the “what if” as of late.
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I’m keeping myself busy for a lot of reasons. Maybe it’s because of the *everything* happening in the world, and I want to close in a little bit to the things I can control. Or maybe it’s because no matter the circumstance, I need to be doing as many things as possible.
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I started a sentence the other day, “When I was working for this labor union,” and the person I was speaking to stopped me.
“What do you mean, ‘when you worked for a labor union?'” For what it’s worth, the story had nothing to do with the union, it was a silly story about a coffee that used to be available at a local chain coffee shop. Regardless, the question got me thinking. Over the last 10 years, I’ve had 20 different jobs that I list on Linkedin, and another 15-20 random freelance things that I’ve done. What has this bredth of experience taught me?
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I lost my phone today. An inconvenience, of course. Phones are an expensive little tether to the world, to the social internet, to the people in your life. I run my work off my phone, and I spend more time staring at that little rectangle than anything else. I wouldn’t consider myself to have a level of phone addiction, but the level of tether to it is unmistakeable. But phones can represent so many things, and this represented loss.
Continue reading “Loss: The Physical and the Memories”When you stand on the beach, and feel the wave crash toward you and knock you down, that is the feeling of “whelm.” To submerge. To engulf. To bury.
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I’ve had this weird shift recently that has required an adjustment of attitude. I’m used to thinking of myself as being at the bottom of the hierarchy, as someone who doesn’t give instruction, but receives instruction.
Dear Reader, I’ve been thinking a lot about who I am as a person. I can list out the qualities of who I am, but lately I have been thinking about things like my lasting impact on the world, and whether I am living my values. So I asked myself the question: What kind of person do you want to be? Not just in 2017, but for the rest of your life. Here’s what I came up with:
Dear Reader, I have never done one of these before. But this has been a weird year. The election, as with every election cycle, took hold of my life, and in times of sorrow, it can be genuinely difficult to look at your own accomplishments and celebrate them. But I want to celebrate this year, and all the good bits of it.