I'm probably the last person to hear this wording or concept, but after today, my life may just be improved having heard it. I've been engaged, much of the day, with a number of conversations on LinkedIn with people who may legitimately believe that when and because they have a thought, that not only is …
Intentionality
I just watched a news story about America's declining birth rate. As is custom for the PBS NewsHour, the story was geared toward demography, data, and overarching context with a sprinkling of personal anecdote. Here's my take. Birthrate are declining in this country; that's an inarguable fact. The reasons for this, however, are varied, nuanced …
What about the Times that Burnout Feels like Nostalgia?
I am 47 years old; I was born in the '70s, y'all. No longer a spring chicken. I've been around the block countless times, but only about 10% of my life has been lived knowing that I am autistic. Oh, I knew I was weird. I mean, it doesn't take long for kids in grade …
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Epiphany
I have just had an epiphany. I think I've finally put a few concepts together for something that has NEVER, in my life, made a lick of sense. I had no idea at all what made successful people successful or what they were confident about. Success didn't make sense at all. Most of the popular …
Language Barrier
We've been born into your world, not our own. We instinctively reach out to connect with you, to show you we care, but your reactions confuse us. When we speak, it's as though the message we send gets flipped in the space between us, and what you hear and respond to is frightening. We must …
Things are Coming Together
It has been a while, but man, there has been some wicked life shit I've been working out lately. I don't even really know how to describe it, but of course, as expected, things started moving really fast with that last shamanic ritual I participated in and it's been a bit of a whirlwind. First, …
Thresholds
Everyone has boundaries, even if they rarely get violated, or you don't know exactly what they are, or you DO know but do not enforce well with others. Those boundaries do exist and many of us were stretched beyond what we thought we were physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of only 5 years ago. Quite …
THE POST I’ve Been Unable to Conjure for Weeks
Someone very specific that I know will be VERY happy that I was (finally) inspired to cough this one up; believe me, it was hard going. As I write this brief intro, I'm still not entirely sure how I'll be going about telling this story. A more polished writer might choose not to get meta …
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Musings
We are all products of our experiences, they say. Of course, some of it is genetic, the point where we start, the hand we are dealt, but then what happens over the course of our lives can, and will, drastically reshape who we could have become in an alternate set of circumstances. For those born …
Surveillance
I went to the grocery store today for a single item. I generally take great pains to avoid single-item trips for efficiency and environmental reasons. My list-making and meal planning skills are pretty on point. However, today, I needed to buy tampons and nothing else. And, of course, Murphy's Law would not allow this trip …
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