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This week, this month (this year?) has been a wild, anxiety inducing ride. I’ve noticed myself falling back into an old and very uncomfortable pattern – checking every 15 minutes to [...]

I was just going along this week, doing my stuff and I noticed that I heard multiple people say something like “my life is on hold” or “I want my life back” or [...]

I wanna build on part of the topic from last week’s post, specifically polarization. To quote myself (I know, I know) “Polarization is when we perceive people who disagree with us as [...]

That’s right, harmony isn’t made up of just one note. When I think about the music that I love, it’s made up of lush, complex harmonies. Different voices. Different instruments. [...]

Last weekend, I was talking to Jordan, responding to a simple question: “What did you do this weekend?” I listed all the chores I had done (our joke is that I can that relaxing) and [...]

How are you doing? How are you treating my friend? We’ve all been living in an extended period of hyper-vigilance, stress and anxiety. It’s different than the kind of stress we were [...]

I love reading stories about time travel – backwards and forwards in time. I wondered what it would be like going back in time, when the pleasures were simpler, the days were less harried [...]

Overwhelm feels a little different these days. Our normal responses and coping mechanisms may not be effective – nor even possible. In normal times, I define overwhelm as a pile of [...]

I sat down to write today’s blog in Color Thinking. I decided on the topic, because I did kind of feel today like I have the Isolation Blues. Then I got just a little distracted. I opened [...]

What would a conversation be like in a world where color thinking is already a thing? I love to imagine them. I like to think that they would be like the ones we used to have in the dining hall [...]