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Moving Up the Scale: Ennui, Entertainment, Education, Exploration, Enlightenment
I’ve guided how I engage with life by this scale of 5 E’s: ennui, entertainment, education, exploration, enlightenment – for many years now. Ennui: the boredom, the could-care-less, the resignation […]
Take All the Time You Need
My Gourmet Poets Society meets this weekend; some of us meeting in person, masked, outdoors in the garden. Some joining by Zoom. In the process of de-cluttering, which seems a […]
Replenishing the Soil, Replenishing the Soul
My friend Mark, a high school biology teacher, is fond of the adage, “Bad farmers grow weeds; good farmers grow crops; excellent farmers grow soil.” I’ve certainly experienced the wisdom […]
Content to Be Without a Bucket List
My official, full retirement is now 12 weeks away. When friends ask me what I plan to do next, I’ve come to realize I really do want to follow the […]
Energy v. Entropy – Another Pandemic Paradox
I consider myself a rather vibrant, eager to engage, passionate about life kind of person. And yet…as it becomes possible to cautiously re-emerge from a year-long shutdown from the pandemic, […]
Welcoming 2021 with a Bang… or a Whimper?
Paraphrasing T.S. Eliot from his 1925 poem the Hollow Man, 2020 has ended “not with a bang but with a whimper.” Many of us are limping rather than leaping into […]
My Brain: From Pixels to Projects
The Monday morning I began my “sabbatical sort of” two weeks ago, I felt like my brain was operating on pixels, a thousand random thoughts flying through mind all at […]
Downshifting for an Uplift
Many of us (38 million of us) saw the probing and provocative film The Social Dilemma, the seriously well-documented, seriously frightening expose from top executives and engineers within the digital […]
Sleep Your Way to Health…and Better Coping
I’ve long known and respected the sheer efficacy of a good night’s sleep for being able to face the details, let alone the difficulties, of daily living and coping. Here’s […]
When to Hide Under the Covers: the Skillfulness of Skillful Distraction
Years ago I heard Dr. O. Carl Simonton advise his cancer patients: “Every day do what you need to do to deal with the cancer, keep your doctor’s appointments, take […]