16 Jul 2019
over the weekend, i had two important men in my life independently ask/reflect back the same charateristic of myself that i didn’t know i had (h/t to the johari window for helping me know how to i.d. moments like this as valuable). one of them asked: “how do you stay so open?” the other said something to effect of “what i love about you is your sense of wonder… something that so many of us lose behind our constant critique and criticisms… you show mehow to wonder at beauty and at magic, while never sacrificing critical consciousness…”
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13 Jul 2019
the other day in a newsletter, spencer asked if there universal truths. it prompted me to start thinking about if i have some that i believe in. the two that came to mind first are:
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12 Jul 2019
last week, i had the honor of participating in the gathering (aka wedding or marrying) of two people who are extremely dear to me. one of my closest friends and her partner: let’s call them j & b. the reason i’m writing is to remember something that happened that i have already been trying to downplay.
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23 Jun 2019
if you know me well, you know that i hate the question “what do you do?” the reasons for that hate are myriad and i wrote some of those thoughts up a few years ago. some reasons i’d add to that are:
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19 Jun 2019
commitment is not a rigidity that leads to breaking.
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