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I am back behind the desk. I vacated two weeks ago with my family for some time away. For me, the where has never mattered as much as the what. My wife tells me this was one of my best vacations. I think I know why.
Our life is not designed to ring with dissonance but resolved harmony. Luster. Richness. Beauty. But, today you are two notes that are just close enough to make neck hairs twinge with disgust. These two notes clash again and again. Each day you ring out the same sound. It is the same neck shrilling angst. How do you fix it?
I finally slew my dragon. It was a 3 month battle. Grisly (that’s a word right). Dark. Exhausting. But it is gone. Lifeless. A few puffs of smoke wisp from his breathless nostrils but it is gone. So, I’m back. And thinking. I think things need to change. I think I want to rearrange I [...]
Watch the Creation trailer. Can you find ways the writers are transfering symbols and icons? How does the writing and character development paint worldviews? What do characters represent? Is there an agenda? What is it?
Most of our time is spent on time sensitive jobs, whether important or not. We do the things the clock requires. This keeps things above float and manages the quantity of work being done but does not raise the quality of what we do. I want to do what I do better not just get the job done.
We are going to get thought after thought today. When a thought rises is it something you need to remember or forget?
Old buckets were made of thin planks called staves side by side and held together by rings. You could only fill water up to the lowest stave. Find your lowest stave, your one thing and allow the increase to come.
