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Tag: Inspiration

  • Expect Nothing

    Photo by Gisela Merkuur on Pixabay And look for miracles I was 16, a brand-new driver, casually over-confident behind the wheel. And that night, I was driving my Volkswagen Beetle a dozen miles or so down the two-lane blacktop, between the city and the suburb where I lived. As I approached a railroad crossing, my mind was…

  • Longest Summer Day

    Photo by Noah Herrera on Pixabay “be home when the streetlamps come on…” You can live the longest summer day; and finally, finally, past its brightest, white-hot crest, a twilight will commence. And you, the running, smallest one, with half-healed knees and tough, bare, dusty toes, and bruise on shin or shoulder, and slightly sunburned nose, you’ll…

  • What Happened When I Started Olding

    Photo by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay Real life happened, that’s what It was a great day earlier this year when I decided I was done adulting and ready to start olding. With olding, you’re no longer compromising with the phony expectations of the “Real World.” Instead, you’re just grown up and ready to grow, by God. So…

  • Why You Don’t Take A “No” From Someone Who Can’t Give A “Yes”

    Typical naysayer. Photo by Ryan Franco on Unsplash And it’s totally okay I wasted a little time today because I forgot the simplest negotiating principle ever: don’t take a “no” from someone in an organization who’s not empowered to say “yes.” It all worked out, but I felt foolish — I should know better than to ask someone to…

  • Surviving Message Lockdown

    Photo by Niels Smeets on Unsplash You’re not alone. You’re just not listening. I recently spent some time trying to cheer up a friend. If you already know I failed, you are smarter than I was in that moment. But please don’t judge too harshly, because even though I really do know better, sometimes I still…

  • Through the Portal

    Photo by Joshua Rondeau on Unsplash reluctant poetry It’s just another magic place to go, like pocket parks or winter forest clearings,where you can stop deciding who to be, or why;and ease your iron shoulders of their weight: So I am not afraid to get away from hereinto the vasty deep that beckons there, alight with wisdom,…

  • Madcap Delinquent Prophet on a Scooter

    Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash On taking back your power My new electric scooter arrived last week, and I am already hopelessly in love with it. It’s the stand-up kind — I just step on with one foot, kick off with the other foot, and toggle a power switch that glides me forward. Wind in my hair……