A year of change, road trips, shared meals, and learning to be present. From Yukon highways to meditation cushions, this is what 46 taught me about showing up.
Another year full of challenges, but my daughter survived.
A personal reflection on finding unexpected love and joy after embracing solitude, and the liberating effects of letting go of social media and embracing real connections.
Today is Bell Let's Talk Day, a day focused on mental health awareness. For the past few years, I have been using it to talk about a theme for the next year.
This is the 13th year of writing these annual reflections for my birthday: soberness, aloneness/solitude, and recommendations for books, music, and podcasts.
Twitter has been fracturing the last 4-6 months. I still struggle with figuring out where to invest my time. Do I focus on my broad interests (Twitter), the nerdy ones (Mastodon), or do I discover new audiences and interests (Spoutible being the latest one)?
The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us. A great love, a great calling, a great illumination — they happen unto us, like light falling upon that which is lit. We have given a name to these unbidden greatnesses — genius, from the Latin for “spirit,” denoting the spirit of a universe we can only submit to but cannot govern.
— Maria Popova, The Marginalist
A nice reflection on genius, including quotes from Emerson and Twain.
Charlie ain’t no cop; but she can smell bullshit. A fun new mystery procedural show.
I've been really enjoying the first two episodes of The Last of Us on HBO/Crave. I may have to rewatch them after listening to the latest episode of X-Ray Vision doing a recap of the episode. A lot more depth to the show than I thought.
Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day, and like last year, I want to use it to help prepare myself for what is to come this year. I do that by coming up with a theme to follow for the year.
Prime writing hours, as @SheaSerrano would say. It always feels good to get something new down and scheduled to post.
'Last of Us' is a very promising series after the first two episodes were aired on HBO. Something new I learned today was that it was filmed primarily in Alberta. Filming Locations has compiled all the locations with before/after photos.
Very cool.
Short Reel on Instagram since I'm not on TikTok.
Coffee is from Bean Scene in Kelowna.
