How many times have you read the word "crisis" this week?
Between 9/11 remembrance, Sudan, crossing the +1.5 celcius climate threshold and the announcement that our species has a 1 in 10 chance of extinction at the hands of AI; well, it's a lot.
Maybe, like me, you're casting around for some ho...
After living in the wild silence of New Mexico for nearly a year, it follows that I'm now sensitive to noise.
But it's not just the noise of my little city, it's the mental noise I'm installing by listening to a thousand different voices every day.
While the world certainly needs my attention, t...
One of the most important things you can do in life is become a person who does what they say they will.
Beyonce famously put it like this:
"Don't talk about what you're gonna do. Don't just dream about what you're gonna do. Don't criticize somebody else for what they're not doing. You, be it....
Last week a client asked me to explain what I mean about life's second mountain and how it's practically different from the first.
"We optimize for different things," I told her. "Mostly freedom."
I realized later, even though that's right, it feels vague. So I've been drilling down some example...
Most humans I know, including me, struggle to meditate. Despite one million influencers — even very reliable ones like the Dalai Lama — hyping meditation as the portal into the deepest levels of our beloved being, I still treat the practice like condiments at Chick-Fil-A.
"Would you like sauce f...
It's a tricky thing to find yourself feeling blue in the summer. The peaches are ripe, days at the lake are long, and hammocks wait ready in the shade; how could anyone be so selfish to be sad when it's all this good?
And yet ... it happens.
No need to examine the 1000 reasons you might be feelin...
Last fall I signed up for an AI training, as it seemed well-past time to understand the technology people say will replace me and every other worker on earth — except plumbers.
I spent six weeks learning how to write good prompts and training ChatGPT to act as my thought partner. It works incred...
We left the ranch in New Mexico for good last week. I cried throughout the 35-mile drive to town.
That surprised me.
That ranch is impossible. It's impossibly beautiful and harsh at the same time. It's dry and mean and full of rattlesnakes and yet, the skies are darker there and the sunsets wild...
I learned something new about God today that shouldn't feel like an aha, but it does.
I realized I worry too much about discerning God's "perfect will for my life," and too little just enjoying God's overwhelming love for me.
There's a big difference.
One feels like a blindfolded Easter egg hu...
I really don't care about basketball.
In fact, I wasn't even sure who the Knicks were playing when I noticed the frenzy happening at MSG. Then, over the weekend, I watched approximately one million reels of the game-winning shot and New Yorkers going batshit crazy.
What a joy to watch humans of ...
I finished the third round of edits on my manuscript today, and honestly, after reading the epilogue out loud to Sam, I nearly cried.
It's been over a year, (a lifetime actually) and Death to Sparkleprincess: a beginners guide to midlife, faith and meaningful work, is finally on her way to her e...
I won't bore you with the details, but something we've spent six months waiting for is dissolving into dust and falling through our fingers.
Admittedly, it was a high-commitment gamble from the beginning, but we did it, with a willingness to wait to see what would happen.
Nothing has happened, ...
