Perseveration X

Control. That’s what I’ve felt I’ve needed all of my life. I was very anxious and needed to believe I had agency in what was going on around me. Getting yelled at for something? Find a way to make that stop or change the narrative- not my fault! Interesting that I wrote that paragraph in… Read more

The strange thing about perception is how it influences time. We’ve all heard that ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ and ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ when describing a monumental emotional event. We’ve also had that feeling that time is dragging because we’re ‘bored’ or ‘not engaged.’ You can see it in the lines created… Read more

Galileo’s downfall occurred because he believed in a heliocentric galaxy. Not universe (although the universe to him consisted of the earth, moon, some planets and the sun) but galaxy. My downfall was exacerbated by an egocentric view of the universe. As I sit here in this coffee shop almost two years after the final events… Read more

If you’re like me (and odds on, as a human, you are- neither of us is terminally unique) you’ll have faced at least one…if not many…’existential crisis.’ That moment or decision where you’re life will change and your future course determined. A divergent path into the woods. Burns wrote a poem about it- about taking… Read more

I’ve spent an embarrassingly large amount of my life avoiding the difficult discussion, situation or moment. I was asked during a talk I gave this last week “what do you do when you’re faced with that difficult decision? How do you decide?” My response was different than what I actually did. I recommended allowing that… Read more

Passion is a good thing. “Find what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life…”always move forward….” “idle hands are the Devil’s plaything…” It takes 10,000 hours of practice to be elite at something…” This is not a blog about obsession. That’s an abnormal fixation on a person, event or thing. It’s… Read more