Happy New Year, dear readers! I'm not gonna lie; we all thought 2020 was bad and 2021 would be better, but at this point, it honestly feels like we've just been through one huge, horrible, double-length year of anguish and uncertainty. After all that, the holidays and typical year end frivolity just didn't feal right, …
Tag: theory
Time ≠ Money
Just coming off a 4-day holiday weekend, I wanted to muse a bit about time, how it can be spent and our options for how to use it. Time is fungible, as in, it is something that can change into other things, which makes it just a little bit magical. Time passes, whether we want …
Time
Being that this is the week after our semi-annual, fuck-with-my-sleep-for-a-week thing we call the daylight saving time "Fall back," I thought I would write about TIME today. I have always had an uneasy relationship with time. It may or may not have started when, as a young child, I observed the arbitrariness of certain aspects …
Compartmentalization, or Why the Labor Economy is Broken
We are on the precipice of a whole new paradigm when it comes to who works where, how, and for how long. There may be many people who fear such upheaval and would rather just sit tight with the system we have because they had been able to hang on by the skin of their …
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When Nothing Changes…
Thursday night, my husband had gone on a short weekend camping trip and I was left alone... with my thoughts. As I let the dog out for last pee, I found myself staring at the sky, looking to see whether the clouds have rolled in yet. We had rain forecasted to begin overnight Friday and …
Oh, You Thought I was Here for a JOB?
I listened to a podcast the other day where I heard about how people think of the work they do in one of three categories: a job, a career or a calling. Just to give proper attribution (and because I actually REMEMBER where I heard it), this was on an episode of Kelly Corrigan's amazing …
The Skill of Knowing Where Your Input is NOT Needed
It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that the largest missing ingredient in the system (substitute whatever system you want) is the ability of people in power, generally abled cisgender white men (and women, depending on context), to understand when it is time for them to step back, make way, hold space, shut up, promote …
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Good Business Practice
I am taking a short leave of absence from work this week and next due to my anxiety and stress. One of the first things I think of as a tool at my disposal for stress management is to head directly to my local float center. If you are unfamiliar, floating is a practice where …
Don’t Be an Asshole
OK, soapbox time. I am REALLY tired of people not listening, not respecting and generally tending to assume the worst intentions of ANYONE who has a different opinion than they do and who dares to speak it. This is bullshit and it has to stop. Here is the truth. Nobody has all the same opinions/thoughts …
Myopia
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we, as individual human beings, can contribute to the healing of our society. It should be clear to everyone at this point that humanity has a list of existential crises that we have known about for more or less time. These situations have not yet been addressed …
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