Choosing to Live Over Being Terrified by Everything in the World — The world is a scary place. Bad things are happening in any given moment, within every city around the world. So, how do we find the strength to get up each day and venture out...
Using Storytelling to Get at the Root of My Anxiety — Poppy the dog came into our lives July of 2020, less than sixty days after the kid overdosed. We needed her. She needed us. We found her in a rescue just shy of one years...
Unpacking the Argument That School Strips Away Children’s Creativity and Desire to Learn — It is an argument you see surface on a regular basis via news reports, blog posts, and social media sharing. That our public school system strips away the creativity, curiosity, and ability to learn, while...
We Are Here When You Realize Everything You Have Been Told Is Not True — I just wanted you to know that we are still here for you. I am sure the world seems like it is completely falling apart around you right now. I just wanted to write that...
Big City Streets Turning Into Communities — I wrote about the audio side of this transformation a while back, but I wanted to think about it from a spatial and more physical view of what is city or country, or more importantly...
Growing Up — I did some outreach recently to my conservative family members that didn’t so go well. There were several aspects that didn’t go well, but what ended up derailing my proposal for coming together to discuss...
Cities Are So Loud — It took me the last five years to realize why cities were so loud to me. It wasn’t just the cars, people, and other activities. It was me. It was how I had been raised...
The Last Four Years Have Been Difficult — A huge load was removed from my shoulders this Saturday with the defeat of Donald Trump. I know there is a huge amount of work still to be done recovering from his Presidency, but I...
We Need More Investment in Cybernetic Research — I have read a couple of books on Cybernetics in the last couple of years, and increasingly see the subject cited in more modern work while discussing the situation we find ourselves in with the...
Creating Myself By Examining Everything — I have been enjoying a set of essays by James Baldwin lately, exposing myself to his unique ability to tell stories about racism in this country, which dives deep into the systemic racism that exists,...
Being Able to Take Criticism and Dissenting Opinions — Historically, I am a pretty short-tempered, low patience, and generally grumpy individual. Any number of things will set me off, but in my experience it is often something unrelated to whatever is going on in...
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