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.
Today, Ryan Holiday announced his latest book on his brilliant reading recommendation mailing list.
This is a smart idea: curated selection of 3 books mailed out quarterly that are not much bigger than an iPhone – 48 pages total. $15 US per quarter, or one year for $50.00 with extra goodies. Mouse Books on Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mousebooks/mouse-books]
"An essential intent is both inspirational and concrete, both meaningful and measurable." - Greg McKeown
I can’t get over how catchy this song is from Katy Perry – Swish Swish [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx1pQiETQm4]. Loved the performance on SNL last month.
Late night discovery while going through old posts: according to the Ulysses app [https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/ulysses/id623795237?mt=12&at=10l4Qt], it would take over a day to read everything I have written since 2005.1 Over 400,000 words so far with many more to come. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Not everything from before 2012 is on the blog. Working my way through the archives, slowly, to republish most of it. ↩
When I feel my weakest and most vunerable, I feel my most creative. Unfortunately (or fortunately), most miss out on that journey.
Fun and useless challenge: use chopsticks with your nondominant hand.
Nothing better than taking a moment from work to watch the #WWDC Keynote.
In order to discover how to make yourself feel better, find out how best to make you absolutely miserable.
A short video about the history of tea in the world.
It’s rather interesting how the ads on YouTube load instantly, but the actual video can have issues buffering; refresh the page, new ad loads right away, but not the video.
When One Direction first came out, I did my best to avoid listening to them as much as possible.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by James McCullough (@foursides) A few months ago, my selection from BespokePost was titled Sanctuary. The main highlight of the box was a Turkish bath towel, that I thought would go well with the other Turkish bath towel I already had. Also included was a three-piece bathroom set made of concrete, which was something I lacked. The final item was something I was undecided about, but has quickly turned into a favourite of mine: palo santo incense sticks
I had no idea how involved and lengthy of a process making soy sauce is, nor how long it has existed in Japanese culture.
I wish my energy were more consistent and I didn’t have this ebb and flow happening. Definitely not feeling it tonight.
