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…
Picture a blue, canvas-lined laundry cart. The kind of thing you might have thrown used gym towels into back in high school. A Goodwill worker gestures you toward the left side of the lot and rolls one of a matching pair of blue carts forward as you idle to a stop. A younger man follows…
Words of Others In the introduction to Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed says, “I think of quotes as mini-instruction manuals for the soul.” Her book goes on to comprise well over one hundred pages of quotation from sources across her writing career. I have been a quote collector longer than I can remember. I return often to words that…
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…
It’s heavy right now. Our world this week, this month. Before, too. This short post by Seth Godin resonated for me earlier in the week. It’s a one-minute read and well worth the time. The final two sentences: “The purpose of speech is to alert others to our point of view, and the purpose of…
Today was my first swimming lesson. (As a dad.) Jakey and I journeyed across town to Matt Dishman Community Center. I didn’t expect the sensation coursing through me as I carried him across the parking lot. I was nervous. I spend all my time around pools. I run two of them, I have swum in…
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.“—John Steinbeck Thirty degrees when we woke on this eve of Christmas Eve. The kids put on an extra layer over pajamas, donned boots, and went out at sunrise to leave footprints in the frosty grass. They traipsed trails in…
