How to Restock Your Dreams
living recapturing
30 Things I Did This Year
As the year closes, one resounding thud of a thought keeps circling: I don’t want to lose this year too. I want to capture this year, keep it like a songbird in my heart.
Do you want to do this with me?
22 bullshit life purposes
Maybe you’ve always had too many interests, too many possible directions to go in. Narrowing them to “The One” has always been tough.
2020 gave us gifts (here’s what they are)
2020 gave us gifts. Here’s what they are.
I’m sitting here wrapping up work for the year, planning on taking a few weeks off for the holidays. I feel like before I go, I want to send you all a note about this year. This crazy, crazy year.
Like you, I started 2020 dreaming up big things for myself and others. And like you, I found myself stuttering and swerving as more and more fear and ridiculousness swung my way: COVID-19, the California wildfires and unprecedented number of hurricanes, the fight for BLM, and a near miss with the breakdown of democracy in the U.S. Unfathomable. It’s as if the Universe rolled up all it had and tossed it to us: “Take that, Americans. If you don’t learn from this, I don’t know what it’s gonna take.”
And learn we have.
The pattern master
The Pattern Master
The Flower That Grows Too High Is The First To Be Cut
There’s an old saying that the flower that grows too high in the field is the first to be cut.
Softness is strength
Softness is strength. But sometimes we forget.
Our world thrives on the critical. So much so, that when we’re real and soft with each other, it’s suspect.
Lies make all the good shows on TV. Think Preacher, Barry, Game of Thrones, Orange Is the New Black. All depend on lies to spin them forward.
Realness and vulnerability are so much harder to write, let alone act.
That means these are rare, and what’s rare is coveted. Which means you are coveted. Because you are not a lie.
Take this moment to feel how real and soft you are. It’s a rare and divine commodity these days. Forget what they say about being hard and tough. Hard and tough is easy. It’s walled, shielded, and thick. Bricks are easy to come by.