Tag: living
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What Remains
There is something strange about the way we think about cemeteries. We call them places of death. We imagine them beneath gray skies, wrapped in fog, their crooked stones standing like silent sentinels in the dark. Movies fill them with shadows and whispers, with footsteps that seem to come from nowhere. We teach ourselves to…
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A Manual Selfie of Sorts
Self-portraits… a manual selfie of sorts. When the world gets quiet, my thoughts usually don’t. Today, they settled on the only subject I know from the inside out: me, and the journey that’s brought me to this moment on the third rock from the sun. No what-ifs. No forecasts. No reinventions. Just who I am…
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When Did We Stop Being Bored?
I read something recently that stopped me in my tracks. Someone asked Claude (AI), “What has fundamentally changed the world for the worse, but humans haven’t realized?” The answer wasn’t war. It wasn’t politics. It wasn’t the economy. It was… boredom. At first, I laughed. Just for the sake of clarity (and as proof I…
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Not the Same River, Not the Same Me
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”— Heraclitus I heard this today, and it stayed with me. At first, it sounds like a simple observation about a river. But it’s really about life. Heraclitus reminds us that two things are always…
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How Curiosity and Creativity Became the Story of My Life
I don’t remember deciding to become a creative person. I think I just never stopped being a curious kid. Like every toddler, I was convinced the world existed solely for my investigation. Everything deserved to be touched, tasted, shaken, stacked, thrown, or, if possible, taken apart. My parents probably called it “getting into things.” I…
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Yes… We Know It’s Hot.
People always ask, “How do you live out there?” Well… We complain about the heat for four months. We brag about the weather for the other eight. We have sunshine almost every day of the year. Palm trees. Winters that people everywhere else dream about. Some of the most incredible sunsets you’ll ever see. And…
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The Things We Never Meant to Remember
It’s funny, the things we remember. Not the moments everyone tells us will matter. Not always birthdays, graduations, or the day we got the keys to our first house. Those memories are there somewhere, but they often sit quietly in the background. Instead, it’s the little things that wait patiently for us. The smell of…
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No Wi-Fi, No Agenda, No Problem — Doing Nothing and Loving It
There used to be a time when “doing nothing” was actually doing something. You’d see it everywhere. A man sitting on the front porch after work, coffee cup in hand, staring at absolutely nothing and somehow thinking about everything. A grandmother on a porch swing, watching the world pass by at a speed slow enough…