We all have the canned answers. Sometimes, they aren't quite good enough.
Category: Ruminations
Flip the Coin: Sacrifice and Payoff
There's a movie, The Razor's Edge that boils down to, essentially the statement living a good life is as hard as walking a razor's edge. Also, it shows Bill Murray in a different type of role. Think Meatballs but with philosophy and World War 1. It's a great film, and I only ever saw it …
Something, something, PASSION
The importance of heroes, change, and unlimited hustle. Also a cat picture.
Sisyphus and Snow
It's been some time. Despite the nagging voice in the back of my mind, consistently and insistently demanding me to write something on the blog. I desisted. I felt there was something better coming. Something actually worthwhile to write about. There were times I almost gave in, times I almost threw up another post of …
Here’s What I Want: Thoughts on Expectations
The thing about expectations is that they are oftentimes mired, for me anyway, in some really ridiculous premises. For example. I had an expectation to create a brand-new space in a new building working with two different groups of people, a landlord, several employees, and a small army of contractors and workmen, in two weeks. …
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Endeavors and Deep Dives
It's been a hectic month. Between the upcoming move, yearly picnic, tournament, and all the 10,000 other details that have popped up in the last 20 days, every day is a blur of need and demand. Mix it with a fair amount of panic and caffeine and it all blends together into a kaleidoscopic seizure …
That Certain Something
I'm stuck on this idea of passion. Again. There is something I feel I'm lacking. So much is happening right now that is good and right, but at the same time, there's this pervasive sense I'm missing something important. I hope I'm making the right calls and following through in the correct manner. But I'll …
A List of Ingredients to a Jam Packed Month: Literature, Karate, Extreme Roadtripping, More Karate, Graduation, Moving and then some Karate.
How much has been going on? All of it. All of the things have been going on. Check out what 5,000 miles, not a lot of sleep and a whole lot of thinking will get you!
Looking in the Rearview Mirror
Sometimes when I'm at something of a loss for words on what to write I look back through my photos in my phone and see what I thought was funny/cool/interesting enough to take a picture of at the time. For the last two months, it's been a bit of my wife, a whole lot of …
With Passion or Not at All
Light the world on fire. Oh, and work really hard.
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