Category: Narrative
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Meditation in an Emergency
It may seem counter-intuitive to sit down and meditate during an emergency, but we are currently, all of us – globally, experiencing an emergency of a very unique nature. One where many of us will find ourselves with nothing but time to occupy. The default would certainly seem to be to spend that time freaking…
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Evolution of a Workspace
The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime. That’s 11,250 workdays or 43.2 years. Of your life. Working. Over a third. Of your life. Working. At some point way back when I decided I wanted to make my work environment as welcoming and comfortable as possible if I was going to…
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Celebrate Every Day
Posted in: NarrativeThese are some pictures from my bike commute – in March of 2018. I called it the ‘Viewers Choice Commute’ because I’d posted up the night before and asked my 7-ish Instagram followers to vote on which bike/route I should take. I don’t remember how cold it was that day, but it was a good @winterbiketoworkday –…
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House of Sisyphus
Posted in: NarrativeI joined a new gym. I found it on kijiji. House of Sisyphus. “We train the body AND the mind.” That was all it said. Not much to go on really, but the price was right, FREE. So I shot them an email. I got a reply from some guy named Bert Camu. Weird name.…
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Neil Elwood Peart, 1952-2020
I’ve been a Rush fan since high school. Being a drummer I was attracted by that, then eventually got into Neil’s lyrics. He influenced me in so many ways. He made me realize rock musicians could be smart. He got me to read again. I wrote poetry. Over the years I have owned all the…
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Universal Holidays
Derek Sivers hits the nail on the head for me in his blog post, Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes: Your year really begins when you move to a new home, start school, quit a job, have a big breakup, have a baby, quit a bad habit, start a new project,…