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Clutter – The Invisible Enemy Hiding in Plain Sight
This time of year is can easily become overwhelming. With clean up from Thanksgiving, preparations for Christmas, New Year’s, and/or your holidays of choice, there are a lot of to-do lists, to-hang lists, to-get lists, etc, etc and life can easily become cluttered and messy. I find the “things” pile up and the stress levels rise.…
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The Constant, Inevitable Novelty of Time
Time. The great equalizer. The eternal constant. A constant novelty. A complexity that is nothing more than the concept developed by humans to better understand the constant passing of the moment from future to current to memory. I tend to take time for granted, like so many others. But lately, I’ve found my self thinking about…
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Real Physical Communities Online
We tend be somewhat hypocritical about time spent online, its value against time in the physical world, and how we value it. For example, there is often fear that if kids, and especially adolescents, spend too much time on computers, phones, or the internet in general that they are being anti-social and are missing out on…
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The Humble Watch
There is something about wristwatches that drives me to need one on my wrist at almost all times. It is a familiar and comforting weight on my wrist and the simple convenience of of knowing what time it is at all time. Maybe I regiment and plan my time too much; maybe I need to…
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My Birthday Resolutions
This past week was my birthday. I’m not one who is into big parties for my birthdays, although Alyse has thrown me some awesome ones over the years. I do look forward to my birthday as an opportunity to reflect and plan. There is usually too much going on around New Year’s to do any…
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Planning – The Dirty Diaper
All the planning in the world, all the preparations and careful creation of strategies will not stand against the dirty diaper. It has to be dealt with and if its a number two, for everyone’s sake, there is no putting it off. It is the immediate and unavoidable disruption to a well-laid plan, a scheduled…