Category: Ponderings
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The Upside of a Career Break-up
Walking out of RGP Technology, the sun was high and bright against the crystal blue sky, and I was confident they were going to offer me the position. I was also confident my answer would be no. I slid into my 2-door coupe, and my mind started arguing with itself. “Are you crazy? You’ve never…
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To drift like the wood
Driftwood… made smoother by the tides, winds, and waves. Much like life, I too can be made smoother by the ups, downs and all arounds. To accept or resist, therein lies my choice. Do I view the world in full color or black and white? Do I go back and forth between one and the…
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Losing Track of Time
I woke up Saturday with no grand plans and decided it would be interesting to have a little experiment. To lose track of Time. To act as if Time did not exist1. So I moseyed around my house and taped index cards over all my clocks, all my two clocks—the microwave and the stove. Then…
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New In Town
I moved to NY 14 days ago. It’s been a blur, but life is starting to feel organized. And thankfully, I have a friend to stay with until I get things aligned on the job-front. I’ve met with recruiters, upgraded my LinkedIn account, checked into networking events and gotten into the groove of the whole…
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Animal Crackers, a change in perspective
Grocery shopping on a Sunday night is never the ideal situation as the weekend crowd has cleared out the shelves and the restocking team is obviously slacking. (No offense restockers, maybe it’s just my grocery store). But when you’re out of your jumbo bag of animal crackers which accompanies your habitual 10pm coffee habit, off…
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The fences we build…
As usual, I ate lunch outside, under a tree, but today I was facing the fence. It made me think how horrible it would be to live stuck behind a fence, with no hope of the freedom on the other side. You don’t have to be in prison to live a life behind fences and…
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What inspires you?
To live your best life, you have to live a life that is engaged and connected. And that means different things to different people. For me, that means the hustle and bustle of the city. I can and do appreciate time away in nature, and enjoy the solitude. It’s a weekly requirement that feeds my…
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These feet were made for walkin’…
And that’s just what they did… in NYC this past week. Trekked about 60 miles in 4 days, photographing the streets of mid-to-lower Manhattan as well as upper Brooklyn. I love the energy of NYC. You can get caught up in the hustle and bustle, but if you sit on a bench you can learn…
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Why you never see a Redwood alone
“…The truth is, we all need supportive relationships. I once heard a lecture in which the speaker talked about the great redwood trees in California, those magnificent giants of the forest towering as much as three hundred feet in the air. ‘You’d think such tall trees would require very deep roots,’ the speaker said. ‘Actually,…
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Design Conference Takeaways
This was my first time to attend Circles Design Conference, and it was totally rad! And yeah, 80’s themed. Not only did attendees get sweet swag, but great insight from the following peeps. These were my takeaways… DAY ONE — Mikey Burton @mikeyburton Say YES! even when you should probably say no. Especially to the…
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