I worry about people who pin their emotions to weather patterns.
Weather can impact our feelings, but we’re asking for trouble if we let it drive our emotions and outlook to the extreme.
What else is askew if the rain, snow, or sun dictates our mood?
More on this tomorrow…
I breathe easy as brake lights sizzle to life in the lane next to me and I cruise on past to merge onto a different freeway, leaving people idling on the interstate. Dodged a bullet once again. My traffic app is like the concierge for my mental health. I tap open the map and local…
Trees and kids go together. I climbed them to heights that now dizzy my head and would survey all the lands around my childhood home. I may as well have been a seafarer high on a mast sighting distant land for the excitement and freedom these perches radiated through my heart. Smaller trees fell to…
A writer who elegantly connects the dots is critical to the important, often fraught, conversations of our time. Jill Lepore wrote a fantastic article in The New Yorker last week called “Are robots competing for your job?” She lays out a history of human fears about automation and the often-misguided worries that attend those fears. She fairly…
Elevating our game for the rush only works because there is also down time. That part of our day or our calendar where there is no rush. My morning coffee shop was bustling when I arrived and has grown busier since I sat down. The baristas hurry. They move in a fluid way around one…
I was a freshman in college. I remarked to my teammate, Joal, on how quickly my year was flying past. (We were riding in the back of a U-Haul, long story…). Joal was a senior, sage and kind. Early on, he had taken me under his wing. He smiled—I remember it as a wistful sort…
This morning I read an interview with the futurist Brian David Johnson and he said, “The future is intensely local.” One of his points is that we need to understand that we build our futures and that we have a lot of control over our role in this process. We aim our focus. We get…
