Monday’s Meditation: On The Special Sense of Satisfaction
I spent the majority of my Sunday working on a task that was unappealing, utterly back-breaking, and altogether disgusting. It took hours and hours of...
Monday’s Meditation: On Unabashedly Owning It
Last week I happened to arrive at my client's house at the same moment as two representatives from a painting company. We stood on the...
Monday’s Meditation: On Spreading Joy
Back in April, my sister visited. It was during that visit that she uttered the most fantastic pair of words I've heard in quite some...
Monday’s Meditation: On Memorial Day
When you're in the mindset of fun, of festivity, that person perched atop the proverbial soapbox is a bummer, isn't she? I'm remiss to pass...
Monday’s Meditation: On Having The Desire
Yesterday I was listening to someone describe his ultimate career vision. He possessed no real clarity about what the precise structure of it would be,...
Monday’s Meditation: On Progress
A little while ago now, I was having a conversation with someone about our respective careers, professional and general life paths. In the space of...
Monday’s Meditation: On Pain & Healing
For the past week and a half, I've been dealing with a stress fracture in my thigh/hip region, and it has been nothing short of excruciating--which,...
Monday’s Meditation: On Being In The Arena
This past weekend I attended the Seattle Poetry Grand Slam. As spoken word poetry goes, it was a night of unfiltered vulnerability, of spilling guts...
Monday’s Meditation: On Making It New
A little while ago I wrote a meditation about seeing with new eyes, in which I suggested that when we let ourselves "get used to"...
