“Just as your body takes in food and digests it and assimilates it for nourishment, so the mind takes in ideas and digests and assimilates them for nourishment.”
This is a space to be nourished, inspired, and challenged by what we have heard
and observed in the world around us.
A Journal about: PRO-Crastination
There’s probably nothing more ironic than waiting 3 months to write a journal entry about procrastination. Maybe there’s a little self-justification going on here, but in fact, I’ve come to the belief that there is a natural rhythm and flow to the pace of developing interesting and well-formed thoughts. Like babies, or seeds, or whiskey, or trees, or skills, or relationships, or pull-ups, or art, or a strategy, etc. There are some things that, despite our technology and modern sense of the need to keep up a ridiculous pace, just require a mixture of steady effort and time in order to become anything significant.
Age and Sitting
Do we take time to wonder at the "priorities" of life? Have we valued the art of sitting down and waiting?
“The Elevator Pitch”
I can’t begin to count the number of nervous eyes I have seen in entrepreneurs whenever you ask them what they do. You might as well have just asked them where their birthmark was, or what they hate most about their own body. It’s this incredibly big question. It’s a mountain.
Taking Our Own Medicine
While lying on an examination table receiving an injection in the . . . let's just say, old-fashioned location, a thought occurred to me. I wonder if these nurses remember what this feels like? Sometimes in the medical world, you can feel like a specimen, an object of study.