Tag: self-reflection

  • i took 300+ selfies this year

    i took 300+ selfies this year

    My friends did a 1 second video every day of 2022, each publishing a six-minute speed run through their life on New Year’s Day 2023. They were so fun to watch! Sign me up! And I did – sign up, that is: I recorded 1 second of video most days of 2023. What I didn’t…

  • visual strategy for one

    visual strategy for one

    I’m not a particularly prolific writer. It’s so tempting for me to get caught up in editing for others, and journaling is something I often do after the fact – my mind usually latches on to images and concepts before words. My coach knows this and will give me reflection prompts than can be done…

  • bravely, wholeheartedly & applying themselves with dignity

    I opened a magazine today right to Gerry Hadden’s piece about journalism and meditation. He muses about the way he didn’t walk – choosing a journalist’s career over deep retreat some years ago, two paths that seem very, very different on the surface, but turn out to be different approaches to big ideas of Truth.…

  • i do not love a parade

    Chicago’s Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup two nights ago. It’s been awhile for them. The city’s excited. Revelers were still hooting in the streets, doing some strange pantomime of a pow-wow, as I walked to work the next morning. Today, there was a PARADE! It marched through downtown, brushing the corner of our building. Everyone…