Respite, long awaited, showing them another way, living a slower way, Beloved mountains, fresh air, sounds a wild, few street lights, a step out, away, away, What will the stars tell us, the trees, what will they say, how will we play? Stay my heart, my calm, be so, whisperers only in the night, and …
Category: lifestyle
Pace
Pick it up, Slow down, Live by it, Die by it? Don’t let it kill you, Learn to master it, When to allow yourself to be swept up, When to let hurry by when too quick, It’s up to you, Pace.
Easing Back, Back to Front, No Grind
After two weeks healing myself and my girls up from COVID, I’m logging back on to work life. Not on-site just yet; gotta solve this cough problem. L Back to front? It basically means, my intent to start work again with a fresh, healthier, balanced approach, retaining my sense of self and priority. My goal? …
Awash
I can’t really explain it very well. I feel like there’s a LOT going on… That in some (many?) cases I have to let things fall away… And sometimes in quite messy form, unfortunately, And yet I think I’m keeping the main priorities squared away, plates in the air, And then I wake up, mind …
Channel The Earlies
I work for a bio tech company. We manufacture right here in good ol’ northern California, San Francisco Bay Area. You might have heard we have about 9 million people in the metro area. Our company is sorta smack in the middle of it. That is to say, there are a LOT of people on …
Black History Month 2022: Sam Sanders, Zach Stafford, Saeed Jones
These three amazing voices from right now, what a troika of power and good in the world. Zach Stafford, accomplished journalist and editor, including the first Black Editor-In-Chief at The Advocate, also Editor-In-Chief at Buzzfeed, and also an investigative journalist at The Guardian. Poet in power, author, amazing voice, Saeed Jones. Thoughtful, provocative, insightful, so …
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Black History Month 2022: Andre Leon Talley
Didn’t know about this guy. Glad to have discovered a little about him, amazed and inspired by his fortitude, spark, and vision. 6 foot 6 inches tall, a Black, Queer Man, in a cape often times, that’s how he was introduced to me. Quite the human, quite the larger than life influencer on design, lifestyle, …
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Sweet Spot
I think I heard this term first related to tennis rackets; that spot on the webbing where the ball will respond the truest off the surface when it makes contact, Probably true for golf club faces and baseball bats too… Concept applied otherwise, Enough pressure, expectation, but not *too* much so. Applicable across so many …
My Country ‘Tis of Thee
I heard an interview recently with a evangelical church pastor somewhere in Tennessee or otherwise in that region of the United States of America… This particular person was of the ilk that the United States of America is a Christian nation… That this particular is part of its foundation, it’s fabric… And although I am …
Mindset? Mindfulness
Nearly two years now, approaching two, World upside down, more than one way, Crisis demanding response, Many ways, we might say, Stark circumstances, consequences, what to do, how to play, New early morning routines, lots of thoughts in the dark, How to go forward, next steps, each day? Pit of stomach holds me back most …
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